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Do you still have your lost socks gathered, from Lost Sock Memorial Day yesterday? Because today is National Clean Up Your Room Day! I just know you’re going to find some socks to match! Maybe you’ll come across toys you forgot about, or a missing Lego piece, or an overdue library book. Treasures await!
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A 4 year-old boy from Alabama is the best kind of superhero. Austin Perine uses his allowance each week to buy a bag of sandwiches and sodas to give to the homeless. That’s what he thinks a president should do, so he calls himself President Austin. He wears a cape and his motto is, “Don’t forget to show love.”
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Maybe you’ve taught your dog a few tricks. Ready to train spiders? Scientists have trained a regal jumping spider named Kim to jump on command! Kim can jump 6 times her body length. That’s like a human jumping over 40 feet! They are studying her leg movements in order to build robots that can jump.
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The kangaroo rat was listed as endangered in Mexico, 24 years ago. No one had spotted one hopping around its desert habitat since 1986. After 30 years with no sightings, scientists thought the kangaroo rat was extinct. But researchers doing a study on other small mammals discovered 4 of them! I guess they were just really good at hiding!
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Making your own breakfast is so boring. What if you had a Lego robot to do it for you? The Brick Wall Team built a Breakfast Machine out of Lego that cooks bacon and eggs and serves it, and even salts and peppers it! The hardest part was making it crack eggs without dropping the shells.
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It’s National Lost Sock Memorial Day! Gather all your socks without mates. Some might make good sock puppets, or maybe you like wearing mismatched socks! But today is the day for paying your respects to those lost socks. Tomorrow’s holiday may help you find them! Finish your memorial with a butterscotch brownie, for Butterscotch Brownie Day!
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Helioseismology is the study of the Sun’s interior based on observing the waves on its surface. Scientists used helioseismology to confirm solar Rossby waves, which are planetary waves that occur in rotating fluids. The Earth’s Rossby waves show up in oceans, while the Sun’s waves take place in the gases and plasma.
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You could say Don Gorske, loves Big Macs. He’s been eating two a day at McDonald’s, for the last 46 years! He hit a milestone last week by eating his 30 thousandth Big Mac, and made it an official world record by submitting all his receipts to Guinness. I don’t think that record will ever be broken!
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Gilligan is a giant Pacific octopus at the Alaska Sea Life Center. She laid thousands of eggs and has been caring for them a whole year, and they are finally starting to hatch! The octopus babies are about the size of a pea, but will grow up to have 14 foot long arms!
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James Longcroft wanted to sell bottles of water in the United Kingdom to raise money to provide clean drinking water in Africa. But the bottle had to be completely biodegradable and non-toxic to ecosystems, and inexpensive. Named Choose Water, the bottles are made of a special paper, and all profits will go to his charity, Water For Africa.
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