Longing for Colder Weather

Are you hot and sweaty? Let’s think back to the polar vortex, when people had fun freezing things in the extremely cold temperatures, like spaghetti frozen with a fork in mid-air, long hair frozen straight out, and a bunch of frozen blue jeans, just standing around in the snow! Do you feel cooler now?

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Uncontrolled Burns

Controlled burns are fires set for farming or forest management purposes, but there’s no such thing in Australia. That’s because firehawk raptors pick up burning sticks and spread the fire to other areas! For thousands of years, Aboriginal Australians have witnessed the fire-wielding birds of prey hunt animals trying to escape the fires.

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Invent Something This Month

August is Inventors Month! Who is your favorite inventor? Maybe you’re thankful Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, or that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Simple things like safety pins or paper clips also needed to be invented, and made somebody rich! Try to come up with your own invention this month!

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Clean Burning Trash

The Sierra Energy Company, is using a new method to get rid of trash. Instead of going to a landfill, trash is vaporized at 4000° Fahrenheit, in an oxygen-injected blast furnace. It produces clean energy, that can be reused to keep the furnace heated up. Any excess fuel is sold. It’s high-tech trash!

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Eggs-citing Find in China

A 10-year-old boy in Guangdong China, found an amazing rock near the Dong River. Zhang Yangzhe had been looking for a stone to use for cracking open walnuts, but found a 66,000,000-year-old dinosaur egg instead! Archaeologists dug deeper, and found a whole nest from the late Cretaceous period! That was eggs-citing!

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Tooth Jackpot

A 7-year-old boy in India, had a swollen jaw that ached. Doctors discovered he had too many teeth below his gum-line. In fact, he had 526 miniature teeth crammed in there! Surgeons took them out, and the boy has a decision to make: leave teeth for the tooth-fairy all at once, or one per night!

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New Gas Attendant

A woman at a gas station in Kansas, was surprised to see a snake slithering across the gas pump’s video screen. At first she thought it was a video, then realized the poor snake was trapped behind the glass. The glass was magnifying him. He was only a wee snook when they freed him!

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