Our mostly-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Eight-Year-Old’s desk. This week, The Eight-Year-Old tags along with Horrible Harry on his trip to the moon, with Harriet Tubman as she frees 300 slaves on the Underground Railroad, and with Emmy as she explores the mystery of her incredible shrinking rat.
Astronauts living on the International Space Station still have to brush their teeth every day, preferably twice a day. There’s no “out in space” exemption for dental hygiene. But how do you get the toothbrush wet in zero gravity? Where do you spit without a sink? Why doesn’t all that mess end up in your hair? How do astronauts brush their teeth in space?
This week, The Eight-Year-Old devours two of the books she found lurking under the Christmas tree, and Mommyo joins the year-end list-making frenzy by making a giant list of all the news she forgot to tell you about when it actually happened.
My daughter wanted to know what an ant’s mouth looked like. So I used the power of the Google and found a bunch of images of ant mandibles for her, courtesy of Paul Illsley’s blog Tiny Faces in Nature.
When my daughter realized I couldn’t tell the difference between alligators and crocodiles, she told me I needed to write a Caterpickles about it. “That’s the only way you’ll ever learn it, Mommyo.” Fortunately for me, telling the difference is pretty simple–it’s all in the snout, the teeth, and the water.
Our mostly-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Eight-Year-Old’s desk. This week, The Eight-Year-Old boards Howl’s Moving Castle, travels by airship in The Journals of Thaddeaus Shockpocket, and provides friendly encouragement to Kenneth Graham’s Reluctant Dragon.
When my daughter learned that centipedes and millipedes can have roughly the same number of legs, her mind had a question: “What is the difference between centipedes and millipedes?”
It’s May, which means any day now a massive thunderstorm will form in Yoro, Honduras, pelting the region with heavy rain for hours. By the time the rain’s over, the ground will be covered in small, blind, silver fish. Locals call it the Lluvia de Peces (rain of fish). But why does it happen?
The Eight-Year-Old, like most of us, is fascinated on some level with the Titanic. After last week’s discussion of the differences between flotsam, jetsam, lagan, and…
Our semi-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Eight-Year-Old’s desk. Caterpickles Central is all abuzz with news of the bobcat that caught a shark and the three new dwarf dragons discovered in South America. And and she read a few books too.
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