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How The Elements Got Their Names
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Joe Hanson of It’s Okay to Be Smart explains how the elements got their names in Dr. Seuss like rhyming fashion.
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How The Elements Got Their Names
Ever wonder what all those names on the periodic table actually mean?
There’s a whole lot of fascinating history on Mendeleev’s table. Some carry names from antiquity, some are named for people, some are named for places, and some are named for mythical beings. Discover the etymology of the elements!
Baby Black-Footed Cats Hunt Crickets
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Baby Black-Footed Cats hunt crickets at the Philadelphia Zoo like stone-cold merciless killers.
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Zoos find themselves in the strange position of buying animals for other animals. In this case, the Philadelphia Zoo got a shipment of live crickets for the Black-footed Cat kittens to play with. You remember when they were little. They’ve grown a lot, and now are almost as big as their mother! Drogon, Viserion, and Rhaegal are three months old now.
It seems weird to call them Black-foot Cat kittens, instead of just Black-footed kittens. But “Black-footed Cat” is the species. It’s like saying “Sand Cat cubs” instead of just Sand cubs. But wait- at what point do you classifying wild cats as cubs instead of kittens? Black-footed cats are smaller than domestic cats, but they are still wildcats!
Random Riddle: 7-21-2014
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| I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or square.
What am I? |
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