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Captain Marvel knows, the best way to get in touch with a superhero, is to page them. People used to call your pager number, and the pager would display their number, so you could call them back when you got to a phone! New ones work with Bluetooth, to connect with your cellphone!
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If you have a little brother or sister that always steals your seat, you need the newest product from ThinkGeek. It’s a bean bag onesie! The one-piece pajamas have a built-in bean bag on the back, so you always have a place to sit. You’ll always have a seat, on your seat!
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School is cancelled today. Just kidding! It’s April Fools’ Day, a day to play good-natured pranks on people! Be wary of the filling in donuts, haha haha! Today is also Fun Day! It’s fun to be a trickster, but so is playing games, creating art, building a fort, or doing whatever else you love!
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Do you think you have a lot of video games? Antonio Monteiro has got you beat. It took 8 days to count them all, but the final tally was 20,139 video games! The games include full North American sets for several different consoles. Antonio keeps them all stored in a single room!
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Florida alligators are showing up everywhere. A 750 pound gator was found wandering through a parking lot, and was safely moved. Earlier in the month, an 800 pound alligator was removed from a golf course. And this week, an alligator was waiting at a school bus stop near a lake. I wonder what grade he was in!
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Researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology, have designed a new toilet seat. It’s equipped to measure heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen levels, and the amount of blood being pumped with each heart beat. The toilet seat will be given to patients with congestive heart failure, so hospitals can monitor patients from home!
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7 year-old Benjamin Ball loves sea turtles. So when he went to L.L. Bean’s store in Maine, and they only had plastic straws, he wrote a letter to the company’s president. He explained how plastic hurts marine animals, and asked them to use paper straws. L.L. Bean followed his advice, and switched to biodegradable straws!
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Yay and hooray, it’s Tater Day! Have some baked potatoes and hash browns and potato dumplings and French fries and potato chips and home fries and sweet potatoes and tater tots and mashed potatoes! Then draw some spuds and color them in with crayons, for Crayon Day. Purple potatoes will be beautiful!
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He’s no Mary Poppins, but a man in Turkey did float through the air on an umbrella! Strong winds on a Turkish street caused several men to stand on the platform of a large umbrella, in order to keep it from flying away. The wind carried it 10 feet up before the last man jumped!
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Scientists just measured nothing. They measured the sound of quantum nothingness, at room temperature, so they can understand how the noise of space interacts with their equipment. If they want to identify the tiniest sounds, like gravitational waves from a black hole, they have to separate them from all the quantum static!
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