The Museum of Science in Boston boasts two life-size statues of the T. Rex. The one in the permanent dinosaur exhibit stands in the now-classic T. Rex pose: the predator in mid-stride, while the other stands primly with his tail on the ground. How do scientists know which stance is right? And why do they change their minds about dinosaurs all the time?
I suppose this entry should really be titled, “Why did our daughter ask me how many shots she would need to go to Botswana?”, because that’s what my husband actually said when he came back downstairs after putting our 4 year old to bed last night.
Massive solar flares, a dog who adopted some ducklings, and a dinosaur mystery soon to be solved
Of all the dinosaur books my daughter and I have read so far, Lenny Hort’s Did Dinosaurs Eat Pizza?: Mysteries Science Hasn’t Solved may be our favorite. It packs a lot of information into very readable bursts of text.
One night as she was splashing around in her bright pink bath water my four-year-old asked me what the tub was made of. As it turns out, the bathtub she uses is one of those old timey clawfoot jobs made of cast iron with a porcelain enamel coating. When I told her this, she immediately perked up and asked: “Is the enamel on our bathtub the same stuff that’s on my teeth?”
Tornadoes can happen anywhere, not just in the flat plains of Texas and the Midwest east of the Rockies. But Texas gets a lot of them because cold dry air from Canada often collides with warm wet air from the Gulf over Texas.
Yes. (Image courtesy of http://www.foodclipart.com)
One fine summer evening, we were debating whether or not the youngest, stickiest member of our family should take a bath. My daughter, clearly looking for models from the animal kingdom to support her argument that a slight coating of sand and dried ice cream is not immediately fatal to those lucky enough to wear it, asked, “Do ants take baths?”
One afternoon, while we were stuck in traffic, my daughter asked, “Why aren’t there flying cars?” Turns out there are. We just aren’t driving them yet.
Turns out there’s an awful lot of space stuff in the sky above Earth. Including some rather sizable asteroids.
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