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Warning: this will be gross. Researcher Grace Tung Johnson built a vomiting machine to study how vomit makes other people sick. Some particles are so small that they become aerosolized and float through the air more than 100 feet. Another machine named Vomiting Larry showed how hard it is to clean up. Yuck!
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Today is National Biscuits and Gravy Day. It is also National Monkey Day! It started when artist Casey Sorrow scribbled Monkey Day on his friend’s calendar as a joke. They started celebrating with other Michigan State University artists and it grew in popularity. So today, eat biscuits and gravy like a monkey!
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Nora the baby polar bear had a solitary life at the Columbus and Oregon Zoos. She had no polar bear adults to teach her the bear basics. Now, she is finally having fun with another polar bear at Utah’s Hogle Zoo. 2 year-old Nora and her new friend Hope love to play!
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The astronomer group METI, which stands for messaging extraterrestrial intelligence, beams messages into outer space hoping for a reply from aliens. Their recent mail has an address: GJ 273. Luyten’s star is a planet that could support life. The message contained 33 songs, mathematics and speech saying, “Please reply”. It will take 12 years to arrive!
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A Siamese cat jumped over 11 feet yesterday to set a world record. Bud D Boy made the fantastic horizontal leap in front of an audience in Florida. Scott Sturtz adopted Bud D Boy from a shelter 9 years ago when he was a kitten. The amazing Bud D Boy can also use a toilet!
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The United States is seeing snow this month. Winter Storm Benjamin even brought rare snow to Florida and southern Texas. But Mount Baker, a ski resort in Washington’s Sierra Nevada mountain range, holds the record for most snow ever in one season: 1140 inches! That’s 95 feet of snow! I need a bigger shovel.
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Ancient dog bones from an archaeological dig in Germany provided new clues about how dogs evolved from wolves. The 5000 to 7000 year-old bones held DNA that suggested dogs were domesticated 30,000 years ago and then migrated around the world. Dogs from India, Ireland and Germany all have common ancestors. Your dog’s great-great times 4000 grandpa was a wolf!
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Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’Apai is Earth’s youngest island, formed by an erupting volcano in the Pacific Ocean in 2014. Scientists thought waves would erode it away in a few months, but now think it may last 30 years. NASA is studying its life cycle to understand volcanic eruptions and oceans of the past on Mars!
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Today is National Cocoa Day! The ancient Mayans first created chocolate drinks 2000 years ago. By the 15th century, cocoa was an important part of Aztec culture in Mexico. Hot chocolate used to be a treatment for stomach ailments. Now hot cocoa is popular all over the world. Drink some today to celebrate!
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Who is smarter, cats or dogs? A small study of animal brains found that dog brains have twice as many neurons as cat brains. Neurons are cells that process information. Brain size did not matter, since a big bear brain still had less neurons. But raccoons had the most neurons! They win!
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