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Have you heard of Fingerlings? Maybe you got one of these toys for a holiday gift. They are actually miniature robot monkeys. They can sense and react to sound, motion, and position. They are quite inexpensive for a sophisticated robot, not to mention cute. No wonder they are so popular!
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A popular Christmas gift for kids years ago used to be a chemistry set. But those sets could be dangerous! They contained poisonous cyanide to dissolve gold, blowtorches to make glass test tubes, radioactive uranium to practice measuring radiation, and carcinogenic asbestos to dust for fingerprints. Now some chemistry sets don’t even contain chemicals!
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Today is Christmas, a festival celebrated by billions of people to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. We don’t know the date Jesus was actually born, but Christmas has been December 25th since the year 336. It is marked with gift giving and Santa Claus, Christmas trees and lights, church services, songs and gatherings.
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A Goodfellow’s tree kangaroo baby is finally showing his face at the Belfast Zoo! When the joey was born in June, he was the size of a jelly bean and crawled into his mother’s pouch. Kayjo has been developing in the pouch and waited more than 6 months to peek out!
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Scientists have been studying a mysterious star called RZ Piscium. It has far more dust and debris surrounding it than it should for its age. Researchers now think the star is eating leftover planets! Dust and gas from nearby dissolving planets may be getting sucked in by RZ Piscium’s gravitational pull.
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As well as Christmas Eve, today is National Eggnog Day. Also known as egg milk punch (which I think sounds kind of gross), eggnog is a drink made from milk, cream, sugar, spices and eggs. Sometimes it’s served spiked with liquor, so make sure you ask before you drink some!
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Everyone knows exercising keeps your body and heart healthy. You might think it takes weeks of working out to see a change in your health. New evidence shows even one workout can help protect your heart! The benefits only last about five days, so exercise every five days for constant heart protection.
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For most of the year NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, is in charge of aerospace and maritime warning and control. But on Christmas Eve, NORAD tracks Santa Claus! They use radar, satellites, jet fighter escorts, and Santacams to get some pictures. Visit the noradsanta dot org website to follow Santa’s travels today!
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Okay, who wants to be a millionaire? All you have to do is solve one of the Millennium Prize math problems. You can pick the Navier-Stokes equations, P vs NP, the Yang-Mills theory and the quantum mass gap, the Reimann Hypothesis, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, or the Hodge conjecture. Good luck!
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Glitter is beautiful and sparkly but it’s bad for the environment. Glitter is made from plastic which takes thousands of years to decompose. It washes away into the oceans where microplastics harm marine life. The good news is that some companies are making biodegradable glitter so you can sparkle guilt-free!
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