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On April 22nd 1970, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson created Earth Day. He wanted people to focus on the environment, air and water pollution. It grew into a global movement, bringing the world together to try and keep the Earth clean, prevent global warming, and preserve nature for future generations. Set a goal today to help the Earth this year!
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Apparently common sense is not enough to keep cars from driving or parking on sidewalks, so British inventor Yannick Read created the Catclaw. The device pops a metal spike out, to slash the tires of a car or truck that rolls over it. Lighter objects like people or bikes will not activate it. That should keep pedestrians safe!
What a good grandson. When Danny Weissberg’s grandmother had a stroke and he could no longer understand her speech, he created Voiceitt. Voiceitt is a speech recognition technology that learns how a person pronounces words, then translates their speech so that others can understand what they’re saying. Then they can talk to ME again!
The Equipe da Casa do Chocolate takes its name seriously. Brazilian for “house of Chocolate,” the company set a world record for largest chocolate sculpture by building an entire house out of chocolate! The furniture, kitchen, typewriter, and even 2 human figures are all sculpted out of delicious chocolate! I think I’ll eat the chocolate eggs first.
Last week in New York City, Girl Scout Troop 6000 held its first cookie sale. The troop is made up of girls who live in homeless shelters, where it’s hard to store cookie shipments. But Kellogg’s Cafe in Union Square let them sell cookies out of their location, and they’ve sold 30,000 boxes of cookies!
I’ve gotta record for sale here, who’ll give me one dollar, one dolla-one-one dolla one-HERE now gimme-two-two-two dolla two SOLD, for two dollars! It’s National Auctioneers Day! Talk like an auctioneer and sell something to your friends. I pretended to auction a record, because it’s National Record Store Day! If you can still find one, visit it!
Victorville California didn’t get buried in snow. The town on the edge of the Mojave Desert got covered in tumbleweeds! The dry brush rolled in on 50 mile per hour wind gusts, and piled up to 7 feet high. The fronts of some houses were completely covered by tumbleweeds, stuck together like Legos. Cleanup could take a while!
A new study shows that Americans are wasting huge amounts of food, averaging a pound a day per person! That’s about 25% of all food in the United States once it gets to your house or a restaurant; it doesn’t even count food waste in stores, or the agricultural system! Stop throwing out food and eat your leftovers!
A new species of ant was discovered in the rainforests of Borneo. Colobopsis explodens have a unique way of defending themselves: the ants latch onto enemies and explode their toxic guts onto them! Other workers plug the nest hole up with their heads to keep intruders out. The workers sacrifice themselves to keep the colony safe.
An expedition of scientists from Singapore and Indonesia collected specimens from deep in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of West Java. In only 2 weeks, they’d found 11 new species! From an orange-striped lobster, to a crab that decorates its shell with debris as camouflage, to a foot-long giant sea cockroach, the ocean is still full of surprises!