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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Kinda Clammy! (for the Week of March 9, 2008)
March 9, 2008 Q. Dear Twig: How many kinds of clams are there? A. Well, "clam," in general, means a bivalve mollusk. That's a mollusk with a two-part shell. If you lump all the bivalve mollusks on Earth all together — the clams, mussels, oy ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Yellow Belly? Real, Funny (for the Week of Nov. 25, 2007)
November 16, 2007 Q. Dear Twig: "Yellow-bellied sapsucker." Is that a real bird? A.: Yep, it sure is. It's a small, shy woodpecker that lives in North America. And it sure has a funny name. Part of the name comes from how the bird feeds. It ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Kilimanjaro Snow No Mo'? (for the Week of Jan. 14, 2007)
January 9, 2007 Q. Dear Twig: What does global warming have to do with the snows of Kilimanjaro? [See last week.] A.: Well, scientists think it's making them melt, that's what. Wha? Yes, the famous snows of Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest mou ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Horse Meat, Yay or Neigh? (for the Week of Dec. 31, 2006)
December 15, 2006 Q. Dear Twig: Not that I want to do it myself, but what's the deal about people eating horse meat? A.: The United States has three slaughterhouses that take in horses (many but not all of them old, sick or surplus), kill them, and c ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: How to Stop Another Katrina (for the Week of Feb. 11, 2007)
February 2, 2007 Q. Dear Twig: Can what happened to New Orleans, the damage from Hurricane Katrina, happen again? If it can, what can we do to stop it? A. First question: Yes. What Katrina did can happen again. Why? Because hurricanes happen. Naturally. B ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Jingle Bells, Why Batman Smells (for the Week of Dec. 16, 2007)
December 12, 2007 Q. Dear Twig: I have a question about the words that my sister and I sing to "Jingle Bells." Why does Batman smell? A.: Science has yet to study the question. So one can only guess. Batman might have bromidrosis ("bro-mih- ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Homegrown Frugal Frugivorous Fruitfest! (for the Week of March 8, 2009)
March 8, 2009 Q. Dear Twig: You asked this last week: "Why would you want to grow your own fruit?" You mentioned a good way to learn about it. A. My friend Miss McGillicuddy grows her own raspberries. She has bags and bags of frozen ones down ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Hey, Bu'b! Save Dough! Cut Gas! (for the Week of Jan. 21, 2007)
January 19, 2007 Q. Dear Twig: What's with the curlicue light bulbs? A. Hmm. Yes. I think I know what you mean. I think you mean compact fluorescent ("flor-ESS-ent") lamps, or CFLs. More and more people now buy them and use them. They use t ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Hedgehogs Got Milk? (for the Week of April 13, 2008)
April 13, 2008 Q. Dear Twig: Hedgehogs are lactose-intolerant. I read that in a book. How would anyone know that? A. I turn to a real good Web site for a simple, two-word answer: Greenish diarrhoea. "Greenish diarrhoea," Wildlife Online (http:// ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Hawk Makes a Splash (for the Week of Aug. 9, 2009)
August 9, 2009 Q. Dear Twig: I saw a big hawk in my grandmother's bird bath. A. Cool. Q. What was it doing there? A. Probably getting a drink of water, taking a bath or both. Q. Why? A. Likely it was thirsty, dirty, hot or all three. A hawk is a bi ...