Kids Explain Science

One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second.

• You can listen to thunder after lightning and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don’t hear it, you got hit, so never mind.
• Talc is found on rocks and on babies.
• Isn’t inertia when something is moving, then it stops moving and keeps moving?
• The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming back down.
• When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.
• When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy. When planets do it we say they are orbiting.
• Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
• While the earth seems to be knowingly keeping its distance from the sun, it is really only centrificating.
• Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction.
• South America has cold summers and hot winters, but somehow they still manage.
• Water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. There are 180 degrees between freezing and boiling because there are 180 degrees between north and south.
• A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go.
• There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be discovered. Finding them all means living forever.
• There is a tremendous weight pushing down on the center of the Earth because of so much population stomping around up there these days.
• Lime is a green-tasting rock.
• Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils, while others preferred to be oil.
• Genetics explain why you look like your father, and if you don’t why you should.
• Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they’re there.
• Some oxygen molecules help fires burn, while others help make water, so sometimes it’s brother against brother.
• Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers.
• We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on.
• To most people, solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists, solutions are things that are still all mixed up.
• In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are twice as many H’s as O’s.
• Clouds are high flying fogs.
• I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing.
• Clouds just keep circling the earth around and around. And around. There is not much else to do.
• Water vapor gets together in a cloud. When it is big enough to be called a drop, it does.
• Humidity is the experience of looking for air and finding water.
• We keep track of the humidity in the air so we won’t drown when we breathe.
• Rain is often known as soft water, oppositely known as hail.
• Rain is saved up in cloud banks.
• In some rocks you can find the fossil footprints of fishes.
• Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dog’s tongue will kill the strongest man.
• The wind is like the air, only pushier.
• A blizzard is when it snows sideways.
• A hurricane is a breeze of a bigly size.
• A monsoon is a French gentleman.
• Thunder is a rich source of loudness.
• Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound.
• It is so hot in some places that the people there have to live in other places.
• Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the daytime.

Learn from the Kids

1. It's more fun to color outside the lines.

2. If you're gonna draw on the wall, do it behind the couch.

3. Ask why until you understand.

4. Hang on tight.

5. Even if you've been fishing for 3 hours and haven't gotten
anything except poison ivy and a sunburn, you're still better off than the worm.

6. Make up the rules as you go along.

7. It doesn't matter who started it.

8. Ask for sprinkles.

9. If the horse you're drawing looks more like a dog, make it a dog.

10. Save a place in line for your friends.

11. Sometimes you have to take the test before you've finished
studying.

12. If you want a kitten, start out asking for a horse.

13. Just keep banging until someone opens the door.

14. Making your bed is a waste of time.

15. There is no good reason why clothes have to match.

16. Even Popeye didn't eat his spinach until he absolutely had to.

17. You work so hard pedaling up the hill that you hate to brake on
the way down.

18. You can't ask to start over just because you're losing the game.

19. It is impossible to hide your broccoli in your glass of milk

20. Grown-ups just don't get it

21. The sky doesn't have to be blue; the grass doesn't have to be green

Summa Sun

Today was a pretty good day. Well, as of now I'm unemployed and so I can spend my Monday's by the pool, which is exactly what I did. I started off running errands, which is an accomplishment on its own. It always feels good when at the end of the day you had fun and you can say you got things accomplished...a productive day. I include fun as being part of being productive, because it's important to slow down sometimes and enjoy things around you. I mean, it's the end of July, meaning summer is coming to its end in about a month. The summer breeze and summer sun will soon become a cool and crisp winter. The smells, the breeze, the weather and the moods sum up what I love about winter.

A few things that don't go away with the change of seasons are the palm trees, the sun and the beaches. We are in sunny Florida where vacations were to the Keys, Daytona or Disney World. The Ice Cream man came to your neighborhood daily. You expected a 15 minute afternoon thunderstorm everyday and loved watching clouds for figures you recognized. It seriously could rain on one side of the street and not on the other. Your lifestyle is tropical, colorful, and warm. South Florida is completely different from North Florida, as if you stepped right into another state. Yet each has its charm. I wouldn't change it for the world. I do love this place. Another good day in sunny Florida. :)

Lazy Evening

So, I'm sitting here on this lovely Saturday evening watching some lifetime movie eating Shrimp scampi my hunni brought home for me from work. Although it's Saturday night, there is nothing I'd rather be doing than waiting for my hun to get out of the shower so we can put in a movie. Last night I went out with my favorites downtown and had a blast. Let's just say my head was not happy with me this morning. I was very excited when I found that the bar we went to had beer from all over the world. I had myself a Hefeweizen from Germany and a 1664 from France. Oooo, mmmm. I do miss good German beer. Beer is something I found so simple but it turns out to be just as complex as a good wine. Time and fermentation is very important for a good beer. I was a Miller Lite girl, because it was lite and cheap...but I swear I'll never go back. Everyone has their own opinions, but I do think that many people would agree with the statement that Germany has the best beer in the world.
Yup...I've become a beer snob!
http://www.germanbeerinstitute.com/styles.html

Tell it like it is...

I've been sitting here watching a lot of tv and around 2pm, nothing is on. The reason is because everyone should be at work or at lease be doing something except watching tv. I decide the news. 

CNN, Fox, ABC, HLN... and I can't help but be opinionated on what I see. So where do I begin? 

Well, I can start with what is dominating the news as we speak...a financial crisis that could cripple our economy even more than it already is and Casey Anthony. 

I want to say a few things on the Casey Anthony trial, the one who got away with murder. Everyone has an opinion on the whole Casey Anthony verdict. I mean, I walk into a grocery store, and I hear people arguing their opinions right in the bread isle. The fact remains; there simply was not enough evidence to convict her for murder. That's not to say that I think she is by any means innocent. She is extremely guilty. Maybe no one can prove she killed anybody, but she is most certainly guilty of being a horrible parent and a liar. Horrible for not performing her role as a parent by calling the authorities when her daughter went missing, and for the many other accusations that came out during her investigation. She has to get more time than what she got! Either she killed her daughter or tried to cover up an accidental death...both in my book are pretty sick. 

       I was watching the news a few months back, and this woman had told South Florida police officers that she had an infant son that went missing and that the last person he had been with was the nanny. So Christmas eve, police officers searched for this so called baby boy. Later, they come to find out that the woman never had a baby, and that she lied about it in order to "trap" her boyfriend in their relationship. Well, like any lie, the truth eventually comes out...I mean, of course the man came and wanted to meet his alleged son. When he came by, she panicked. This woman was found guilty of lying to the authorities and got sentenced to some jail time yet.
Casey Anthony had a ‘real’ child who turned up dead and wrapped in a plastic bag in the woods. Should Casey Anthony maybe have gotten a harsher sentence? Not only for lying to authorities but covering up a death? How does that make any sense? Well it simply doesn’t…

       So, stories like this dominate American news…stories of people getting away with murder; and republicans and democrats bickering like children over political affairs while America struggles through a monetary crisis. What's really happening behind the scenes? What is being said and done without our awareness? What the American people want to hear and should hear is completely different. As is what is actually being told to us. The wave of media deregulation has been lubricated by big media money and influenced by the few high power players in society. Basically, the common people are left out, and we are being force fed what the corporate media wants us to know, or what will provide the media networks with the best profit margin.

        When I got back from Europe, people asked me why I didn’t go to Greece, apparently unaware that Athens at the moment is in huge political turmoil with protesters being beat on the streets of the city. Maybe news networks covered it minimally, but instead, politicians who control the popular media networks are dominating the media agenda. 

        What really irks me is when people complain that the liberal media is driving this country into a socialist liberal frenzy…when those who complain about liberal media fully understand the corruption of our corporate and political leaders and are ok with a democracy that is controlled by the highest 10 percent of society. So, on that note...I leave you all with a few stories I find significant and important: 


Somalia Drought Is 'Worst Humanitarian Crisis': U.N.
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/10/somalia-drought-worst-humanitarian-crisis-_n_894072.html

U.S. War Costs Reach At Least $3.7 Trillion And Counting:
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/29/us-war-costs-3-trillion_n_886879.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl16%7Csec1_lnk2%7C74188

South Sudan Becomes World's Newest Nation:
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/08/south-sudan-worlds-newest_n_893552.html

Canada Polar Bears Getting Protection Under Species At-Risk Legislation:
 http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/07/12/canada-polar-bears-gettin_n_896443.html?just_reloaded=1

Here we go

Day 1 of my first blog. I always wanted to start a blog, but felt I never had the time. It seems now I have too much time on my hands, and I'd like to start keeping track of activities that happen in my life. To begin, I just got back from Europe, and it was absolutely amazing. I graduated, saved for a few months and took off. It was something I just really needed to do and it was all very worth it. I have many many stories... but I'm still debating whether to take the journal I brought with me and enter individual posts of the daily activities that occurred, or whether to just sum it all up in one large blog. So, I guess we'll see. My life right about now seems pretty chaotic but I have never felt so sure that I'm in the right place at the right time. I have no home, no job and I'm not in school...and yet I wouldn't have it any other way. I understand that it's about time to buckle down, but I have about 2 weeks in Canada and I will take that time to figure it all out. and even if I don't, everything is bound to come together. It always does. So, I've had a pretty laazy day. Just lounging around...I mean there isn't much to do without a job. Especially when everyone else has one. Made me decide that I could never be a housewife. I think I'd go crazy. I need something to keep me busy, keep my mind occupied that doesn't involve washing, cleaning, or mindless television. Soo..with that in mind...I am going to find something to do. Maybe go buy a paint kit and try and see what skills I have. hmm..that sounds like an idea. :)