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The Central American country of Belize is ending all offshore oil drilling. Its waters are home to the Belize Barrier Reef, part of the longest coral reef in the Western Hemisphere. Belizeans have fought hard to save the reef. The ban on oil extraction is a promising step to protect the environment.
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Are you shocked to hear it’s National Static Electricity Day? Static electricity is produced when the positive and negative charges of an atom become unbalanced. See static in action by rubbing a balloon against your head. It will stick! Shuffle around the carpet with rubber-soled shoes and try to zap someone. Yee-ouch!
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Last week, the cold weather in Nantucket Massachusetts gave photographer Jonathan Nimefroh and his friends an unusual treat. They surfed Slurpee waves! Ice crystals were forming in the ocean waves turning them into rolling waves of slush. The water temperature was only 12 degrees Fahrenheit. I hope those surfers had warm wetsuits!
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A dinosaur fossil found in the nineteenth century is still providing new data. The Compsognathus longipes ate a lizard 150 million years ago but died before digesting it. The lizard has been reclassified as a new species. Researchers named it Schoenesmahl dyspepsia, which translates to “beautiful meal that is difficult to digest.”
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Do you love key lime pie? You should head to Merritt Island Florida for the Florida Key Lime Pie Festival next Saturday. They will attempt to break a world record by making a key lime pie over 12 feet in diameter. It will use thousands of limes and have a gazillion calories!
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In 1981, Joan White decided to spread joy every January 8th. She thought happiness could be infectious, so she called it National Joygerm Day. Just do something nice for someone or write an e-mail or letter. Tell them you are spreading germs of joy and ask them to help you infect the world!
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A mistake paid off for a lucky New Jersey woman. Oksana Zaharov wanted to buy a $1 lottery ticket, but the clerk handed her a $10 scratch-off ticket instead. She didn’t want to make the clerk feel bad for ripping off the wrong ticket, so she just bought it. It was worth $5 million!
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A prime number is a number divisible only by itself and 1, like the numbers 2 3 5 7 11 and so on. A Mersenne prime is a number found by multiplying many twos together, then subtracting one. The newest prime number is M77232917, found by multiplying 77,232,917 twos, minus one. The answer would fill 9000 pages!
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A story in the news this week warned that chocolate may go extinct in 40 years! But while climate change may threaten the current growing area for cacao, it can be cultivated in other places. Scientists are also making cacao plants more resistant to disease. Everyone is united to keep chocolate safe forever!
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Today is National Tempura Day. Tempura is a Japanese dish of vegetables or seafood that are dipped in batter and deep-fried. It’s also National Bobblehead Day. The toys with big heads bobbing on springs have been around more than 100 years! Just be sure you don’t deep-fry your bobbleheads today!
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