It’s been nearly a week since I answered any of my daughter’s questions, and boy are they piling up. Today, I answer several quick ones about worms, hedgehogs, and how many shots my daughter would need to visit hedgehogs in their native habitat.
Oddly, when you type this question into Google, you get lots and lots of links pointing you to bacteria that are smaller than other bacteria. Almost…
Posting will be intermittent next week. I’ll be around, but then again so will The Five-Year-Old, and as she is ever so much more interesting than…
Although The Five-Year-Old loves a good Pajama Day at home, I get cranky if we string too many of them (read: >1) in a row. But there are only so many times you can go to Capron Park Zoo, Jamaica Pond, the Boston Public Garden, Moose Hill, or even the Boston Museum of Science. Consequently, I’m always looking for good day trips with The Five-Year-Old, and with summer coming up, I was pretty happy to find Outdoors with Kids: Boston at our local bookstore last week.
Feathered dinosaurs, chocolate bilbies, and other news of the week
Baby eagle webcam, male trees in cities, and other news of the week
Perhaps you’ve heard that we’ve had an unseasonably mild winter up here. Maybe the fact that The Five-Year-Old was still struggling with mosquito bites in November clued you in. Or maybe it was the complete lack of complaints about snow (and the requisite snow shoveling pictures that you know I would have posted, had they existed). Or maybe you live here and experienced the disconcerting bliss of a basically snow-free winter in Massachusetts for yourself.
I’ve been vaguely uneasy about the whole thing all winter. So I spent some time reading up on it.
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.
Recently, The Four-Year-Old learned that the Auburn University football team has multiple fighting beasts associated with it. Naturally she wanted to know the difference between Aubie the tiger and Nova the War Eagle.
Just a quick set of links this morning as The Four-Year-Old is headed to the kitchen to begin her morning science experiment with or without me.…
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