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Today is Martin Luther King Jr Day. Dr. King was a minister, activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He used non-violent civil disobedience, marches and sit-ins to try to create racial equality in the United States. He was assassinated in 1968, but still inspires us to fight racism.
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Record-breaking cold temperatures have been common this winter. But what’s the coldest temperature possible? Absolute zero, when every skerrick of heat energy has been sucked out, is -459.67 degrees Fahrenheit. Absolute hot, the highest possible temperature, is 2.556 trigintillion degrees Fahrenheit: 2556 followed by 30 zeroes. Our sun’s core is only 18 million degrees!
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Companies know kids are tech-savvy and they are developing technology geared toward creative minds and small heads. Kano will be releasing a kit for children to build a digital camera and then program it! Meanwhile, Merge will sell a virtual reality headset that fits smaller heads with the lenses spaced closer together.
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A foil-covered robot baby torso might look creepy, but it’s helping scientists analyze how crawling babies kick up dirt. The dust clouds stirred up were 20 times greater close to the ground, where infants inhale them. This might not be a bad thing because it could help boost their immune systems.
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Look out animals, it’s National Dress Up Your Pet Day! Dress your dog in a new sweater, your cat in a bow tie, and your snake in a tiny top hat. Stick paper clothes on your aquarium and photograph your fish at just the right angle. Today you have an excuse to get creative!
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How long do you think it would take you to row your boat across the Atlantic Ocean? The Four Oarsmen did it in 29 days! George Biggar, Dicky Taylor, Peter Robinson and Stuart Watts rowed 3000 miles from the Canary Islands to Antigua and raised 250,000 pounds for charity. They celebrated with a cup of tea.
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Patsy Smith found a duck who’d lost his foot. Peg’s leg injury grew more irritated as he got older, so three eighth graders came to the rescue. Matthew Cook, Darshan Patel and Abby Simmons used a 3D printer to make Peg a new leg! Peg is waddling happily on his new appendage!
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Drifting is a driving technique using oversteering and loss of traction in the wheels. BMW took drifting to a new level by setting two new world records. Not only did they drive an M5 sideways for a record-breaking 232 miles, they also had a second refueling vehicle drift alongside it for 49 miles!
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Astrogeologists are excited about scarps on Mars. The scarps are high slopes of dirt covering sheets of ice 300 feet thick, and planetary scientists have located eight of them. The cliffs of ice were likely formed by snow thousands of years ago and may contain records of Martian climate for robot explorers to gather.
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The best way to avoid the flu is to stay out of its way. Droplets in the air can travel 3 to 6 feet from an infected person. Frequent hand-washing also helps. If you do get the flu, drink a cup of water every hour and sit up to help your lungs clear bacteria.
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