The Kid Should See This Jenny and Jim Desmond are parents to an unusual and very large family – over twenty orphaned baby chimpanzees. Their home in Liberia is rapidly becoming too small for this rambunctious troop of animals, so […]
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The Kid Should See This In the deserts of the southwestern United States and Mexico, infrequent storms can result in fewer opportunities for desert creatures to find water. But several rattlesnake species have a rain-harvesting trick: They sip […]
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Cool Mom Picks On this week’s Spawned parenting podcast, we’re focusing on about raising sexually healthy kids. i.e. How to have the sex talk, what to say, and how it’s changed over the years. I don’t use the term “brilliant” lightly, […]
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The Kid Should See This One of my favorite green woodworking techniques is spoon carving, and in this video I show you how to carve a spoon from tree to table and what tools you need to carve a spoon, […]
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The Kid Should See This New Zealand’s small and flightless North Island brown kiwi is a nocturnal bird that sleeps in burrows underground. They are endangered but beloved and protected. The Smithsonian’s National Zoo introduces three-year-old brown kiwi […]
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The Kid Should See This A small styrofoam (or pith) ball on a thread is held next to a vibrating 512-C tuning fork. You can’t see the tuning fork’s movement, but the styrofoam ball responds. This is a demonstration to […]
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The Kid Should See This The Dinner Feeder is an artfully-timed Rube Goldberg-style, chain reaction-driven meal by Joseph Herscher of Joseph’s Machines. It’s a long-awaited sequel to The Lunch Feeder. He writes: For all the workaholics who don’t […]
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Cool Mom Picks 2020 is already underway., and normally we’d have shared our annual list of our favorite printable calendars with you for the year. But with some of our kids back in school late this year, combined with and […]
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Cool Mom Picks In light of this week’s rapid increase in tension between the US, Iran, and Iraq, my social feeds are packed with parents sharing similar sentiments as Asha Dornfest did on Twitter: My children and their friends are […]
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The Kid Should See This “How can the shell that’s been strong enough to protect the chick from the outside world,” Sir David Attenborough asks, “be also weak enough to allow the chick to break it?” This clip […]
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