Giant Fleas, Tiny Old Horses, and Other News of the Week
We start off this week’s batch of science news with a story that has my cat Cozy digging furiously at his ear. Dinosaurs may have been covered in giant fleas. Ick ick ick.
Kittens! Knitting! Dinosaurs! Oh My!
The New York Times provides extensive scientific coverage of cats, Knitting Behind Bars, and our favorite dinosaur news of the week.
Oil-Eating Mushrooms and Other News of the Week
Oil-eating mushrooms, Mars Rover Curiosity update, and other news of the week.
In which my daughter decides to only eat meat
Daddyo, somewhat wistfully watching his daughter chomp down on the last of the bacon: “The Four-Year-Old let me know that she was a carnivore today.” The…
Ancient Whale Graveyard Found In Chile: A Caterpickles Special Report
We interrupt our afternoon siesta to bring you this breaking news story from 2 to 7 million years ago. Just over 24 hours ago, our Rhode Island Correspondent alerted us to the recent discovery of an ancient whale graveyard in Chile.
Make Way for Teddy! and Other News of the Week
NASA finds water on one of Jupiter’s moons, performing medical techniques on stuffed animals is good practice for future veterinarians, the end of animal testing, and other news of the week.
“How big is a zombie?”
The Four-Year-Old is an expert practitioner of the art of delaying bedtime. So much so, that I’m convinced that putting off bedtime is the way children develop the vital life skill of procrastination.
Still, bedtime is bedtime and not, as The Four-Year-Old claims, the best time for hunting polar region allosaurs, so something had to be done.
“Did Elvis have a cat?”
The Four-Year-Old adores dinosaurs, cats, and Elvis. So naturally she wants to know all the combinations in which these revered beings might have co-existed. Dinosaurs as the Four-Year-Old thinks of them having died out years before Elvis was born, he clearly wouldn’t have had them as pets at Graceland. But did Elvis ever have a cat?
Mind-Control Zombie Parasites and Other News of the Week
What? A rant about penguins wearing sweaters on a Friday? Science news on a Wednesday? Doesn’t this woman know how important routine is to preschoolers? What the heck is going on?
Caterpickles Cleans House
The Four-Year-Old has been asking questions much more quickly than I can research and answer them. At the moment, my pending questions queue has some 115 questions in it. So in an effort to tame the beast a bit, I’m going to break with my one primary question per Caterpickle routine and deal with several unrelated questions about glow-in-the-dark cats, fossils in Iceland (or the lack thereof), and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer all at once.
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