THE AVOCADO AND TESTICLES, OR, YOUR CINCO DE MAYO PARTY TRIVIA It is estimated that almost 20% of the entire half billion ton production of American AVOCADOS will be consumed today on Cinco de ...
COVID-19, OR THE CORONAVIRUS Yes, these things have a name rooted in Ancient Greek, but they also have a discoverer, and someone who names them. In this case, the CORONAVIRUS was known and isol...
kidsneedscience : > There are approximately 2500 species of Mayflies throughout the > world, over 600 of which live in North America alone. Mayflies are > part of an ...
PANDEMIC AND EPIDEMIC What’s the difference between an EPIDEMIC and a PANDEMIC? With the wide spread of COVID-19, people in every country are learning the difference. A PANDEMIC is a disease ...
QUARANTINE 700 hundred years ago, as disease and plague ravaged Europe, cities and states attempted in every way they could to limit the spread of disease. Already a important hub for tradi...
kidsneedscience: When Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas in 1492 convinced he had found...
kidsneedscience: Every year we hear the same stories about the narcotic effects of eating too much...
WAS MOBY DICK REAL? On November 14, 1851, Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, or The Whale was first published. The story of a mad whaling captain pursuing a monstrous white whale across the oceans...
SHAKESPEARE, ASTRONOMY, THE MAD KING GEORGE, AND WILLIAM HERSCHEL The planet URANUS has 27 known and named moons, the first two of which (Titania and Oberon) were discovered in 1787 by the man w...
nasa: Weather permitting, you can observe the Moon most nights, unless it’s a new moon, when the...
LOOKING FOR A PLAN B FOR PLANET EARTH? On October 6, 1995, astronomers Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor made an announcement that while it had been long anticipated was still stunning: they had ...
THE SPACE RACE BEGINS! Today is the 60th anniversary of the launch of SPUTNIK, but the first use of the word satellite to indicate a man-made object was 1936, over twenty years before the Russia...
THE LITTLE GREEN MEN The Little Green Man is 50 years old today! On this day in 1967 astronomer Jocelyn Burnell Bell found an unusual object blinking in a dark corner of the sky in the constel...
DOLLY AT 20 Twenty years ago today on February 22, 1997, Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute, announced the existence of a 7 month old sheep named Dolly, the prod...
DISCOVERING THE STRUCTURE OF DNA On February 21, 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID (DNA) using unacknowledged photographs and research by th...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE ELEMENTS, I GUESS? Today is the birthday of the Periodic Table of the ELEMENTS, created by Russian scientist Dmitry Mendeleev, first published on this date on February 17, ...
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY?!?! Look, instead of spending the day messing around on the internet looking for a last minute reprieve, you really need to be out there finding something special for the...
WHAT’S IN A NAME? When it is a rose, symbol of love and St. Valentine’s day, everything. But are you still on the internet, looking for some last minute inspiration? Ok, let’s go with th...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHARLES DARWIN Born February 12, 1809, Charles Darwin revolutionized science and the culture around it. On 24 November 1859 Charles Darwin published his monumental work On The ...
FROM PHLOGISTON TO OXYGEN Happy Birthday Joseph Priestley, the chemist who discovered OXYGEN. Words enter language and sometimes words disappear-often as quickly as they appeared. In the tr...