Rendezvous With Horseshoe Crabs – Science on the SPOT
Called living fossils, horseshoe crabs are harmless creatures that have been swimming oceans for a few hundred million years. They predate dinosaurs and are closely related to spiders or scorpions....
View ArticleNorthlandz: One of the world’s largest model railroads
This four and a half minute lens commercial gives us the perfect excuse to visit Northlandz, home to one* of the world’s largest model railroads. Some background from Makezine: Bruce Williams...
View ArticleCranberries: How Does It Grow?
Cranberries might have one of the more spectacular-looking harvests of any food. Every October, cranberry bogs full of low-growing, fruit-bearing, woody vines are flooded with water. As harvesters...
View ArticleIcebreaker Boats: Breaking Ice on the Hudson River
The rivers surrounding New York City no longer freeze over completely –despite a lot of ice, water salinity and boat traffic keep the waterways open — but farther north on the Hudson River, in this...
View ArticleThe world’s longest inflatable waterslide is 1/3 of a mile long
Thing that exists: a 1,975-foot-long slip ‘n slide — that’s 1/3 of a mile — at Action Park in New Jersey. With a GoPro attached to his head, a park employee slid along what is now the world’s longest...
View ArticleSecrets Of The Snowy Owl
Follow the migration path of Baltimore, a young male snowy owl outfitted with a GPS transmitter backpack for a research project called Project Snowstorm. Project Snowstorm’s researchers are following...
View ArticleA Sketchy History Of Pencil Lead
When fifth-graders at Green Acres Elementary in Lebanon, Oregon asked the NPR Skunk Bear team how pencil lead was made, they looked into it… way into it. From the start of the universe (with a shout...
View ArticleHow Does it Grow? Raspberries
Raspberries are delicious and delicate! They grow on brambles, prickly shrubs that grow from roots that can live for 20 years. Their pollinated flowers transform into the fragile fruit, which is...
View ArticleCranberries: How Does It Grow?
Cranberries might have one of the more spectacular-looking harvests of any food. Every October, cranberry bogs full of low-growing, fruit-bearing, woody vines are flooded with water. As harvesters...
View ArticleIcebreaker Boats: Breaking Ice on the Hudson River
The rivers surrounding New York City no longer freeze over completely –despite a lot of ice, water salinity and boat traffic keep the waterways open — but farther north on the Hudson River, in this...
View ArticleThe world’s longest inflatable waterslide is 1/3 of a mile long
Thing that exists: a 1,975-foot-long slip ‘n slide — that’s 1/3 of a mile — at Action Park in New Jersey. With a GoPro attached to his head, a park employee slid along what is now the world’s longest...
View ArticleSecrets Of The Snowy Owl
Follow the migration path of Baltimore, a young male snowy owl outfitted with a GPS transmitter backpack for a research project called Project Snowstorm. Project Snowstorm’s researchers are following...
View ArticleA Sketchy History Of Pencil Lead
When fifth-graders at Green Acres Elementary in Lebanon, Oregon asked the NPR Skunk Bear team how pencil lead was made, they looked into it… way into it. From the start of the universe (with a shout...
View ArticleHow Does it Grow? Raspberries
Raspberries are delicious and delicate! They grow on brambles, prickly shrubs that grow from roots that can live for 20 years. Their pollinated flowers transform into the fragile fruit, which is...
View ArticleIn the West Orange lab of Thomas Edison
Born in 1847, Thomas Edison is known as one of the most prolific inventors in American history. His solo and collaborative work fostered innovations in chemistry, engineering, physics, electrical and...
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