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Yum-yummy-yum, today is National Caramel Popcorn Day! The salty-sweet treat has been around since the 18-hundreds. It’s National Teflon Day too. If you make your own caramel corn, you’ll be thanking Roy Plunket for inventing Teflon, or polytetraflouroethylene, and Marion Trozzolo for the Happy Pan. Teflon is the non-stick coating that makes cookware easy to clean!
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14 year-old Jayera Griffin saved all year for her spring break, but she didn’t travel far. She used her $1000 to pay for a free laundry day at her local laundromat in Riverdale Illinois! Some children she tutors don’t have washing machines, and sometimes can’t afford to do laundry. Jayera is already planning her next free laundry day.
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Are you good at Jenga, the game where you pull wooden blocks out of a tower without toppling it? YouTuber Pat McAfee’s dad is a Jenga master. Playing Giant Jenga for the first time, Tim McAfee managed to remove a center block holding up half the tower. The top half dropped neatly onto the stack below. Amazing!
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Researchers at MIT are working on a new kind of computer that doesn’t use your hands, voice, or brain waves. It uses subvocalization: the words you say in your head. The AlterEgo headset wraps around your ear and jaw. It activates when you think a command, and answers through your skull. I believe I’ll stick to voice commands!
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Jigokudani Monkey Park in Japan is home to hot springs and Japanese macaques, also known as snow monkeys. The climate is very cold in the winter, and the monkeys soak in the hot water to warm up. But researchers found it also lowered the monkeys’ stress levels, just like humans. A relaxing hot bath works for everyone!
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When it’s National Burrito, Raisin And Spice Bar, Deep Dish Pizza, Caramel, and Go For Broke Day all on the same day, what do you do? You give it your all and go for broke by eating a raisin-burrito-spice-caramel pizza or a raisin-spice-pizza-caramel burrito. Let me know how that tastes!
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1372 Alpha 1S robots, made by UBTECH, set a new world record in Italy. They became the largest number of robots dancing simultaneously in perfect unison. Of course they didn’t leave out the best dance step: they dabbed. Robots are supposed to revolutionize the world, but they also like to have fun!
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NASA and Lockheed Martin are developing an experimental plane called the Low-Boom Flight Demonstration. When the X-plane breaks the sound barrier it won’t produce the sonic boom that would annoy people living below its flight path. As it passes Mach 1, the speed of sound at around 785 miles per hour, you’ll just hear a gentle thump!
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Virginia Tech college students David Hall and Jordan Klein have a great invention. They developed the Park and Diamond bike helmet. It’s thin and looks like a baseball cap or a beanie, but it’s as durable as a regular bike helmet. You can even fold it up and store it in the bike’s water bottle holder!
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Scientists may have discovered how birds navigate. There’s a protein in their eyes that helps them see the Earth’s magnetic fields! Plants and animals have proteins called cryptochromes that are sensitive to blue light. Birds that migrate have high levels of Cry4, the cryptochrome responsible for magnetoreception. It sounds like birds have superpowers!
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