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Enceladus Ice Plumes: New Insights
A couple years ago, I wrote an article about how scientists were using the scientific method (yes, the one you learned about in school) in order to study the Enceladus ice plumes, which were discovered...
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Why Isn’t the Earth Cratered Like the Moon?
The Moon and Earth are close neighbors, but they look very different. From space, the Earth is blue with water, white with clouds and snow, and has green foliage covering much of its continental area....
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Bessie Coleman: History-Making Flying Ace
In the late summer of 1922, a Curtiss JN-4 Jenny biplane roared over a crowd on Long Island near New York City. The audience gasped as the plane soared through a complex routine of daredevil stunts....
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What Made King Alfred so “Great?”
King Alfred, or Alfred the Great as he is otherwise known, is known as the Anglo-Saxon king who united all of England into one kingdom. We know more about him than most of the kings who came before,...
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Microraptors’ Last Meals Hold Key to Dinosaur Diet
For a creature that has been extinct for almost 100 million years, Microraptor certainly seems to love the spotlight. This over-achiever doesn’t just have two wings like most other feathered...
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For Grieving ‘Bad Batch’ Fans: 10 Ways to Cope
DISCLAIMER: This post contains serious spoilers for the season finale of The Bad Batch season 2 finale. Read at your own risk. But if you or someone you love needs a bit of support after that last...
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‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Fans Have These 10 Reasons to Hope
Disclaimer: This post contains spoilers for the Star Wars franchise series Clone Wars, Rebels, and The Bad Batch. Enter at your own risk! The Sad Batch–I mean, Bad Batch–viewers got a shock with this...
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Welcome Henry Herz, Co-Editor of ‘The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie...
Please join me in welcoming Henry Herz, author and co-editor of the new young adult anthology, The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie! Melanie Meaders: Hi Henry! Why don’t you introduce...
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YA Book Review: ‘Darkhearts’ by James L. Sutter
Friends… to enemies… to frenemies… to more? I haven’t read a book straight through in years. Let’s face it, I am getting old. Once it hits 11 o’clock or so, I’m pretty out. But once I started James L....
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Books, Games, Rock and Roll: An Interview With James L. Sutter
Author James L. Sutter has been busy. In between the releases of his romantic young adult novel (Darkhearts, Wednesday Books/Macmillan) and two comics (Starfinder: Angels of the Drift #1, Dynamite...
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Therizinosaurus, Owner of the Biggest Claws in the Dinosaur World
Let’s face it, there are some weird-looking dinosaurs out there, and one of the weirdest is Therizinosaurus. This dinosaur wins the record for longest claws ever with its 90-centimeter (three-foot)...
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Review: ‘The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet’
Not long ago, I went to my local indie bookstore and said, “I’m looking for a science fiction novel that is fun, space opera-y, that focuses on relationships between people and possibly even kind of...
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Casting Dinosaur Footprints: Bringing Home a Piece of the Jurassic
New England isn’t known for its vast paleontological finds, but there have been some significant dinosaur-related discoveries over the years. The very first dinosaur footprints discovered by European...
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Let’s Dance! Books to Get Preschoolers Moving–And Reading
One of my favorite things to do when I have preschool storytime at the library is moving around and dancing. While this might sound strange–after all, aren’t we supposed to be encouraging kids to sit...
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Wood Frogs: Forest Friends With a Secret Power!
Image: Melanie R. Meadors Hello, Geek Parents! If you’ve hiked in the forests of northern North America, chances are you’ve seen a wood frog on your travels. Or, maybe you haven’t. They are one of the...
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The Inevitability of Human Impact on Nature
On the surface, it seems like a no-brainer: we need to re-introduce large carnivores where we can to bring balance back to ecosystems that have been disrupted, especially carnivores that are on the...
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Don’t You Get Hot? Linen and Historical Clothing in the Summer
A common question historical reenactors hear this time of year is, “Don’t you get hot in all those clothes?” While, yes, people two hundred years ago did wear more clothing and layers than we do today,...
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What Is This? Solving the Mystery of Oak Apple Galls
For years I traipsed through the forests of New England and saw these spherical brown and green things on the ground. I assumed they were some sort of fungus, but never really went further than that...
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Why Don’t Birds Have Four Wings Like Microraptor?
If Microraptor’s four wings were so useful, why don’t birds today have them? Let’s explore some evolution. Last week after I led a class for kids about the dinosaur Microraptor, an adult came up to me...
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Neighborly Galaxies: Does Size Matter?
Do neighborly galaxies, those with lots of other galaxies around them, have any differences from those who are a bit more isolated? Sometimes scientists have ideas for things they’d like to research,...
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