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Would you want to live in a house made of poop? It might sound gross, but Australian scientists have devised a way, to turn the biosolids form wastewater treatment plants, into bricks! The sterilized poo-bricks take less energy to make, and keep houses cooler than clay bricks. They’d also keeps biosolids out of landfills!
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Positive Tomorrows is a nonprofit organization, that’s giving underprivileged children a unique opportunity. Homeless kids in Oklahoma City, are helping to design a new school just for them! It will have areas for students and their parents to prepare meals and eat dinner, and personalized spaces where they can hang out with friends. Awesome!
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Researchers in Australia and France, have found that honeybees can solve simple math problems. They just have to attend a few math classes first! Bees were taught to add or subtract, based on different colored shapes, then rewarded with sugar-water when they answered correctly. I wonder if they’ll learn fractions next!
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The school year’s more than half-over, and your nice new markers may be drying out. Instead of throwing them out, start a collection box at your school. You can send old markers to Crayola, and they’ll recycle them! Their ColorCycle program will pay for the shipping. Just visit Crayola.com, to print out a label!
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Today we celebrate Umbrella Day. The umbrella, or bumbershoot, has been around for over 4000 years, but the Chinese were the first, to waterproof paper parasols. Folding umbrellas didn’t show up until 1969. There’s an umbrella shop in London, called James Smith and Sons, that opened in 1830! After 189 years, they must be umbrella experts!
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A spinning asteroid would be able to create gravity, so why not build a space station inside of it! Scientists are exploring the idea, as a way to mine the valuable minerals locked in asteroids. The asteroid’s rocky shell, would protect mining operations from cosmic ray radiation. Someday, people could live and work there!
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A cat in Montana just used up one of its 9 lives. Fluffy went outside when it was only 8° Fahrenheit, and it snowed 16 inches. Her horrified humans found her buried in a snow bank, and rushed the poor kitty to the vet. After hours of treatment, Fluffy revived, and is back to her old self!
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Female mosquitoes have big appetites. They need the proteins in blood, to produce eggs. Researchers decided to see if giving mosquitoes appetite suppressants, would make a difference. They reacted as if they’d just had a meal, and didn’t bite anyone. Basically, they gave mosquitoes diet pills, and it actually worked! No idea’s too crazy!
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The Park and Diamond bicycle helmet is amazing. It not only looks like a hat, but it folds up to fit in your water bottle-holder. It absorbs more energy than a traditional helmet, and its portability means people are more likely to wear one, when using scooter or bike-share programs! Finally, a convenient helmet!
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Pizza is awesome. You can keep it simple, a crust with tomato and cheese, or you can put 30 toppings on it! It’s Pizza Day, yay! It’s also Bagel Day, so why not have pizza-bagels! Then read a good book, in the tub! It’s Read In the Bathtub Day. Just don’t drop your book!
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