Rotten Science
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009After living things die, they are acted upon by bacteria, molds, fungi, etc. causing them to rot. This decaying process releases elemental components to be used again & again in the environment to build and sustain new life. It’s recycling at it’s most basic level.
Here is an interesting array of videos featuring this fascinating process at work on some [...]
VERY Unusual Gifts
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008By this time, the people left on your holiday gift list are the hardest to buy for. How about one of these unusual items? I guarantee they won’t receive duplicates!
ZAKY INFANT PILLOW
The Zaky is an ergonomic infant pillow designed by a Mom to mimic the size, weight, touch, and feel of her hand and [...]
Hidden in Plain Sight
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008Here are the Highlights Magazine free printable Hidden Picture Puzzle Hotlinks for November and December 2008. As always, they are courtesy of Highlights Magazine.
Click on either of the puzzle links below…
November 2008 Hidden Picture Puzzle (Food Groups)
December 2008 Hidden Picture Puzzle (Snowy Night)
Slugs and Snails
Saturday, December 6th, 2008I love to cook with fresh herbs and decided to winter over my herb plants indoors this year rather than toss them out after the first freeze. My thyme plant sits on a granite ledge above my kitchen sink below some windows. When I went to water it the other night, I noticed something stuck to [...]
Turkey Science
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008Impress friends and relatives at your Thanksgiving table with some fantastic facts about our favorite feastable fowl; Meleagris Gallopavo…
Kidzone provides an excellent page that includes turkey facts, a turkey slide show & even turkey puzzles in honor of the great bird. To go there CLICK HERE
Happy Thanksgiving!
The Best Stuff on Earth?!
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008Many of the most treasured, costly and gourmet luxuries on earth hardly seem promising when encountered in nature rather than on a fine china plate or in a crystal flask. It makes you wonder what possessed the first person who came upon the following 5 items to be inspired to even touch, let alone eat them!
Ambergris
What it is: a solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull [...]
Pooped Out?
Friday, October 31st, 2008Kopi Luwak (Copy looWOCK) is a rare and highy sought after Indonesion coffee that gives the phrase “pass the coffee” a whole new meaning!
This very special coffee begins life like any other grown in this part of the world (the islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago) but instead of being harvested [...]
Vomit-ology
Sunday, October 26th, 2008This post explains what happens when the normal digestive process does not proceed according to plan…
Yesterday on the way back from the annual Cub Scout bonfire, my 7-year-old announced from the back seat that her tummy didn’t feel so good. Shortly thereafter she proved it by emptying the contents of her stomach (hot dogs, chips, Capri Sun and [...]
Egg-Citing Facts
Friday, October 17th, 2008Eggs are truly a wonder of nature. It takes just a day for a chicken to produce one of these perfectly packaged little miracles! Did you ever wonder how the shell gets on the egg? I sure did. Here’s what Sciencejunkies found out…
First, some common questions and answers about chicken egg production.
1. How often do [...]
The Buzz on Honey
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008This post answers some common questions concerning the relationship between bees, pollen, nectar and honey.
1. Why do bees make honey?
Answer: Honeybees are special in that unlike wasps and bumblebees, bee colonies do not hibernate but stay active within their hive throughout winter. The energy required to sustain this activity requires a lot of food energy. Honey [...]
