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The Rosamond Gifford Zoo in New York, announced its newest additions. They have twin baby red pandas! 2 male cubs, Loofah and Doofah, were born June 21st. They are being bottle-fed, because the mother was having trouble taking care of them. Red pandas are endangered, and live in China and the Himalayas.
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Clark Kent Apuda doesn’t just share Superman’s name. The 10 year-old boy is also a super-swimmer! He just beat one of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps’s records! Clark swam the 100-meter butterfly a full second faster than the previous record, set in 1995. Clark has been swimming competitively for only 3 years. He’s just getting started!
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A surprising study shows that when you schedule fun things, they are less fun. One scenario told students to take a cookie break. The students who had to go at a specific time, reported less enjoyment than those who could go during a two-hour period. Try rough scheduling, like meeting Saturday afternoon instead of 2:30.
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Now that July is over, it’s been officially declared the hottest month in history, in the hottest place on Earth. Death Valley California, had 21 days in July where the temperature was at least 120 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 49 degrees Celsius. Last week, temperatures reached 127 degrees! The weather station is at Furnace Creek, 190 feet below sea level.
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What’s your favorite dinosaur? Learn all about it today, because it’s Dinosaur Day! It’s Coloring Book Day too, so maybe you can color a nice stegosaurus or T-rex! National Ice Cream Sandwich Day is also taking place. Do you want your ice cream on wheat or white bread? Just kidding! Use cookies!
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Have you walked your dog today? Even if you have a backyard for your dog to explore, they’ll get excited about taking a walk. They need the exercise, plus it lets them socialize with other dogs and people, or at least get a whiff of their smells! 2 walks a day make a healthy, happy pooch!
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Cube. Sphere. Cylinder. Scutoid? The scutoid is a three-dimensional shape that’s sort of like a column, with half of one end chopped off at an angle. Scientists observed the odd shape in a computer model, then found the shape wherever developing cells have to connect on a curve. Your body is full of scutoids!
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Snow days might become a thing of the past. A school district in South Carolina that issues laptops to all its students, plans to let students complete downloaded assignments at home when schools are closed. That means they won’t have to make up snow days at the end of the year!
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Victory and Valor are eaglets that hatched 3 months ago, and had been testing their wings. The whole world could watch them grow up on dceaglecam.org, but the eagle-cam lost track of Valor when he slipped out of the nest Friday. Thankfully, he’s been found! He’ll be returned to his nest, 80 feet up a tree.
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Can you imagine a world without the internet? Many of your parents were born before “www” meant anything! That alone deserves respect today, on Respect For Parents Day. It’s World Wide Web Day also. Thank you to Tim Berners-Lee for inventing the magnificent way to connect everyone in the world in seconds, back in 1989!
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