Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous Science’ Category
Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Who invented Velcro? Henri de Tolouse letrec. Not the crazy painter, but a simple goat herder from Switzerland (see picture of Henri above). Here's how it happened. Back in 1948, he was walking in the woods near his Swiss mountain home when he noticed his fluffy soft pants were covered ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Imagine an epidemic breaking out today that killed over 1 billion people on Earth. That's about one sixth of the current population. That's exactly what happened in the 1340s when fleas carrying the bacterium Yersinia pestis (formerly known as Pasteurella pestis), left their dying rodent hosts for live humans. I ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Spiders are not insects, nor are roly poly bugs or centipedes, or millipedes etc. Spiders are arachnids (they belong to the arachnida family) and insects belong to the Insecta family. So what are the chief differences between an insect and a spider?
All insects have six legs. If they don't have ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
The toy industry is a multi-billion dollar market and consumers often find themselves bombarded with the latest and greatest toys from the major players in the industry. While I have never had anything against toy cars or dolls, and in fact my children have plenty of both, I am always ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Okay, how many of us have heard of a cat surviving a fall from hundreds of feet? Every once in a while a news story will pop up telling of some skyscraper-dwelling cat that amazingly walked away after some kid threw it over the balcony. (Or maybe it just fell.) ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
If you're like me, you love looking at Top 10 lists of any kind. I think it's always interesting to read about what other people find interesting or to analyze subjects and topics by studying what people are buying. Like many people in the retail world say, customers vote with ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
In the interest of disclosure, the author of this article is the owner of Atomic Elephant Science & Toy Co., a unique store offering science kits and educational toys for children of all ages. -- To many young children, the lure for collecting and observing insects is as natural ...
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