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Fiona Presly of Inverness Scotland has a tiny fuzzy pet. It’s a bumblebee! She noticed a bee with no wings in her garden last spring. The bee crawled onto her hand happily, and Fiona adopted her knowing she wouldn’t survive the winter on her own. Fiona and Bee’s friendship is a mystery to scientists!
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Do you say thank you? And hold the door open for someone behind you? Do you RSVP to party invitations? (That means Respondez S’il Vous Plait, french for Please Respond.) These good manners are called common courtesies, and it’s National Common Courtesy Day. Thank you for the baguette, to also celebrate National French Bread Day!
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What would you do if you had 2 million dollars to spare? If you said “buy a dinosaur skeleton!”, then start saving your money! A fossil Allosaurus will be auctioned off at the Eiffel Tower in Paris this June. The skeleton is about 70% complete and is 29 feet long. I hope you have a big bedroom!
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Congratulations to Bethan Padbury, a British teen who won the Guinness World Records: Science and Stuff Inspire Award at the Big Bang Fair in England. She produced electricity to light up a sign using a bicycle and a homemade generator. You could also smell a recreation of the smelly corpse flower at the fair!
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An idea that started in Cape Town South Africa has spread to France, Canada, and North Carolina in the United States. People are setting up Street Stores for the homeless. Anyone can donate clothing, shoes or even jewelry by hanging it in a designated area where people in need can shop for free. What a great idea!
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Do you want to visit the happiest country in the world? According to this year’s World Happiness Report, Finland has the happiest people, including its immigrant population. The United Nations ranks every country based on income, freedom, trust, healthy life expectancy, social support and generosity. Denmark, Switzerland and Norway were past winners.
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It’s the first day of Spring! Raise your hand if you still have snow. All the flowers and trees are working hard to start blooming, even if it still feels like winter in some places. It’s also the International Day Of Happiness, so give a big smile to anyone who looks grumpy!
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Are you sick of seeing cigarette butts on the ground? Terracycle is trying to help by recycling butts into park benches and shipping pallets. They provide a container to collect discarded cigarettes, which you return to them when full. They’ve recycled 90 million butts so far! Join the program at Terracycle.com.
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The platypus has webbed feet and a duck’s bill, a flat tail like a beaver and venomous ankle spikes. It lays eggs, but has fur and produces milk. Now scientists have found the milk has special proteins with antimicrobial properties. Copying the ringlet-shaped proteins, nicknamed Shirley Temple curls, could produce new antibiotics.
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Kuh-boom! You’ve probably heard thunder from a rainstorm before. Maybe you’ve even heard thunder during a snowstorm. But scientists have captured the sound of thunder in ash clouds from an erupting volcano! They hope studying the thunder can help them detect lightning in large plumes of ash that interfere with airplanes.
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