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A giant sinkhole has opened up in New Zealand! In an area known as Earthquake Flat, the hole appeared overnight. The 66 foot deep opening in the earth, is fascinating to geologists and volcanologists. The bottom is 60,000 year-old volcanic deposits, with millennia of sediment and ash layers rising up, and it’s all clearly exposed!
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Hiccups are annoying. It happens when your diaphragm has an involuntary spasm and makes your vocal chords snap shut. Your diaphragm is the muscle separating the spaces holding your heart and stomach. There are many tricks that are supposed to get rid of hiccups, but scientists say there’s no real cure. Try them all!
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Today is the beginning of National Teacher Appreciation Week. Teachers are so important, they need more than just one day! Be sure to give them extra thanks, even the ones that are tough on you. Different teaching styles and personalities help you learn how to work with all kinds of people in life. Thank you Teachers!
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Have you heard of plogging? It’s a popular new idea in Sweden that’s spreading around the world. Plogging is jogging while picking up trash. If you don’t like jogging, you can try plalking instead: walking while picking up. It exercises more muscles by adding bending, stretching, and carrying extra weight. Plus it cleans up your community!
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3 girls from Washington D C are finalists in a NASA competition. 17 year-olds Mikayla Sharrieff, Bria Snell, and India Skinner had to apply space technologies to earthly challenges. They invented a water purifier out of copper shards, filter floss, and drinking straws. It purifies water in school drinking fountains that might contain led!
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Can you balance bottles on top of each other? How about 5 of them? Rocky Byun, a South Korean balancing artist, has a YouTube channel demonstrating his talents. He balanced 5 glass bottles inside a suspended wooden frame, then gave the whole thing a spin. Rocky can also balance laptops, rocks, chairs, motorbikes, or just about anything!
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Watch where you’re walking; you might discover a 475 million year-old fossil, like Ryleigh Taylor! The 11 year-old found a trilobite fossil in Tennessee. Trilobites are arthropods related to the horseshoe crab. She and her mom, who home-schools her, contacted a paleobiologist to investigate its age. Ryleigh wants to display her fossil in a museum for all to see!
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Lucky you! It’s No Homework Day! It leaves you more time to celebrate World Laughter Day! Tell some jokes while having an extra special drink for National Beverage Day. Hot cocoa with marshmallows? Or an ice cold lemonade, for National Lemonade Day! It’s Crepe Suzette Day also, so enjoy your beverages with sweet crepes!
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NASA just launched an interplanetary rocket from California. If all goes as planned, the Mars InSight lander will arrive on Mars in less than 7 months, on November 26th. The lander’s mission is to drill down to check the planet’s soil temperature, place a seismometer to measure marsquakes, and install antennas to measure the planet’s movements.
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It’s a great time for black rhinos in Africa. The endangered rhinos have not roamed the plains in Chad for 50 years. But 6 black rhinos were relocated from the city in South Africa, to Zakouma National Park in Chad! A rhino team will keep them safe from poachers, and hopefully the rhinos will repopulate their native home.
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