Author: professor blue
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Water balloons prevent total, absolute slaughter of pumpkins
A school district in West Virginia of over 1,000 students began a mass slaughter of pumpkins in pursuit of science.
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Your heavy, trout-like eyes
Hey! Wear a pair of these glasses and people might say, “Hello, Fishstick Face!” and it will be a good thing. Erik de Laurens, a designer, has invented a way to compress fish scales, (scales meaning the skin of dead fish and not the thing you use to weigh overweight sealife with)…
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The art of sand and sun
The desert might not be the ideal place to live and work for most people because, well, it’s a desert. No offense to the Bedoin people. Lots of sun and endless sand are two things that prevent most people from saying, “Let’s go have dinner with the Sahara,” or even, “I build widgets in my…
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The Year of Living… Not Like a Turtle
What do we know about turtles? Hard shell to protect the body. Check. Four legs that don’t move so fast. Check. Able to retreat into the shell for protection from outside forces that wish to do it hard. Check. Un-check?
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Duck Duck Goose | Rabbit Rabbit Turtle.
Bonjour kids! I have a question. What year is this? a) Some people call it 2011. let me guess, 2011 is going to offer a bunch of Happy Meal toys b) But other people call it the Year of the Turtle.
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Contest! You know that turtle you’ve always wanted to draw?
I’m re-posting this so that it stands out on its own. The Department of Environmental Protection in Connecticut is having an art contest for kids! You don’t even have to live in Connecticut to enter the contest! All children from kindergarten through fifth grade are eligible to enter an original drawing, painting, or sketch of…
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Your hands are oily and we can prove it
This You Tube(r) video shows how oil on your hands is no good for fog. Water and oil do not mix!
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Learn aboard, don’t be bored – summer camp for kids
Hey Kids! Learn about marine biology, coastal ecology, oceanography, conservation and more at BOAT CAMP in Newburyport Massachusetts this summer, 2011.
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You might not see a single thing around you. You’re not alone.
The You Tube(r) video Once Upon a Tide presents a different kind of fairy tale. Listening to the sound a seashell makes, a real living girl enters into a sad and beautiful cartoon world of the ocean. The storyteller in the video says, “you might find it hard to believe but I assure you it’s…
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If Germs could sing
Germs, sometimes known as Bacteria, are alive, but you can’t see them. Bacteria are groups of tiny organisms that have only one cell. They are on the ground, in the air, on your shoelaces, the handle to the refrigerator, the tip of your nose. They are all around us. Some bacteria can cause diseases…