Whales hold several world records. Whales are the largest aquatic mammals (bigger than sharks or dolphins.) Grey whales migrate further than any other mammal (about 10,000 miles a year.) And the blue whale is the earth’s largest animal (even beating …[Continue]
Wolves
Fairy tales and folklore have given the wolf a bad rap. But their modern-day tale has a happy ending. After years of extinction in the continental United States, wolves were successfully reintroduced into Yellowstone Park and central Idaho in 1995 …[Continue]
Physics
2005 was named The World Year of Physics to coincide with the one-hundredth anniversary of three of Albert Einstein’s groundbreaking discoveries. In 1905, Einstein proved the existence of atoms and molecules, validated the concepts of quantum mechanics, and developed the …[Continue]
Monarch Butterflies
In all the world, no butterflies migrate like the monarchs of North America. They travel up to three-thousand miles twice a year: south in the fall and north in the spring. To avoid the long, cold northern winters, monarchs west …[Continue]
Bad Science
Bad science (also known as junk science, science myths or science misconceptions) consists of common misconceptions passed on from parents, teachers and inaccurate text books. As American scientist Stephen Jay Gould said, “The most erroneous stories are those we think …[Continue]
Moon
The moon is our closest neighbor, and the only space object ever visited by man. In commemoration of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s first steps on the moon in 1969, July 20th is celebrated as Moon Day….[Continue]
Cats and Kittens
Isn’t it funny how people are categorized as cat people or dog people? My family is both. The trick is getting the correct mix of dogs that are cat people and cats that are dog people. One of our cats …[Continue]
Weather
Even though we have it every day, how much we really know about the weather? And what do meteorologists and climatologists really do? To satisfy my curiosity and yours, I went searching. This is what I found….[Continue]
Galileo Galilei
Called the father of modern experimental science, Galileo Galilei was a seventeenth-century Italian astronomer and physicist. He is known for discovering the law of pendulums, using a telescope to view the moons of Jupiter, supporting a Copernican view of the …[Continue]
Microbes
Wash your hands! Did you hear me? WASH YOUR HANDS! I’m not a broken record, I’m a mom. After learning about these amazing single-cell creatures that sometimes are our friends, and sometimes cause terrible epidemics, I’ve only two things to …[Continue]
