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Today is Bring Your Teddy Bear To Work & School Day! Maybe your teddy will learn something new, but he’ll for sure make everyone smile! It’s Hug A Drummer Day too. Tell them thanks for always keeping the beat! It’s also Cake Decorating Day, so practice your icing techniques and learn to sculpt with fondant.
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One of Jupiter’s moons, Europa, is probably covered in an ocean of salt water, but that water has a crust of ice over it. Astronomers would love to send a probe to the surface, but the ice formations would make it hard to land. They believe it’s covered in 50 foot tall spikes of ice!
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The doctors on Scotland’s Shetland Islands, are recommending a new treatment to improve patients’ blood pressure, mental health, and happiness. The program is called Nature Prescriptions, and it’s designed to get people outside to enjoy nature. Relaxing outdoors has tremendous health benefits, so get out and explore under some rocks or crunch through leaves!
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When Vikas Jyani finally became a pilot, he celebrated his accomplishment by taking his elders flying! All the people in his village in India, between the ages of 70 and 90, got a chance to fly with Jyani from New Delhi to Amritsar. For many of the 22 passengers, it was their first time on a plane!
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When you go to a farmer’s market, you’ll usually find stalls selling fruits and vegetables, honey, maybe baked goods or crafts. A market in Utah has a stand for “Old Coots Giving Advice!” 6 retired friends who met every Saturday, decided they’d tell their same old stories to a new audience, for free!
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Today is Moldy Cheese Day! Don’t say “Yuck!” Many cheeses, like Stilton and Gorgonzola, are supposed to have mold. Today is also Curious Events Day. Celebrate all the strange things in the world, like how it’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open, and the fact that mold makes some cheese taste delicious!
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Scientists want to prepare for the possibility of settlers living on Mars, so they created imitation Martian dirt. They enrich the soil with minerals found in different areas of the planet. The dirt is sold for $10 a pound, so anyone can try to develop Martian farming techniques. Moon and asteroid dirt is coming next!
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A man in Grand Rapids Michigan had a meteorite, that had been used as a doorstop for 80 years. The original owner saw the rock fall from space in the 1930’s. The current owner was curious about its value, so he asked experts to check it out. The spectacular specimen could be worth $100,000!
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Sam Fletcher has a fun little friend. His name is Mr. Bottle-Opener, and he’s a corkscrew with arms. Sam created a video of the bottle-opener on a roller coaster, which shows the arms flying up into the air as they whiz down the big hills! I wonder what Mr. Bottle-Opener’s next adventure will be!
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For the first time in Maryland history, loggerhead sea turtles hatched on Assateague Island National Seashore. Sea turtles usually lay eggs on the coasts from Florida to North Carolina, so a nest that far north was unheard of! About 100 eggs hatched, and the tiny turtles made their way out to sea.
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