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09/05/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Dude, Where's My Mammoth? (Hypotheses 1 and 2) (for the Week of Sept. 9, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Why did those great big mammals in North America — sloths, mammoths, those guys — go extinct?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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09/13/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Dude, Where's My Mammoth? (Hypotheses 3 and 4) (for the Week of Sept. 16, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Go on. What else might have made those great big Ice Age mammals go extinct?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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02/10/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Dung Paper Comes Up Smelling Like Roses or At Least Not Like Partly Digested Roses (for the Week of Feb. 10, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: What's that paper made from elephant dung like? What about from buffalo chips
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Kurt Knebusch |
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02/24/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: E-cars Cleaner, Cheaper? (for the Week of Feb. 24, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: What about the electricity you need to charge an electric car? Doesn't that make pollution and cost money, too?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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02/17/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: E-cars Go! (for the Week of Feb. 17, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: Are electric cars really real?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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05/11/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Eating (Low-fat, High-carb) (Gag) Slugs (for the Week of May 11, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: What eats slugs? Do you eat slugs? I don't eat slugs. |
Kurt Knebusch |
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04/15/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Energy Vampire! Boo! (for the Week of April 22, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: My brother said there are energy vampires. True?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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06/13/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Food Trash and Climate Change, or Don't Flump Muffin Stumps in Dumps (for the Week of June 15, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: Where do the burnt black French fries that I throw out at a restaurant go? |
Kurt Knebusch |
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07/29/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Giant Tomatoes (for the Week of July 29, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: What's the biggest tomato ever?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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08/07/2001 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Grazing cattle (for the week of Aug. 19, 2001) |
Dear Twig: The other day I went by a pasture and all of the cattle were grazing in the same direction. Do they do this all the time? Why do they do it?
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Kurt Knebusch |
Steve Loerch |
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02/27/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Great Big Squid Word (for the Week of March 4, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Did you hear about that super-huge squid?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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08/09/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Hawk Makes a Splash (for the Week of Aug. 9, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: I saw a big hawk in my grandmother's bird bath.
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Kurt Knebusch |
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04/13/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Hedgehogs Got Milk? (for the Week of April 13, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: Hedgehogs are lactose-intolerant. I read that in a book. How would anyone know that?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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01/19/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Hey, Bu'b! Save Dough! Cut Gas! (for the Week of Jan. 21, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: What's with the curlicue light bulbs?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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03/08/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Homegrown Frugal Frugivorous Fruitfest! (for the Week of 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.
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Kurt Knebusch |
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12/15/2006 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Horse Meat, Yay or Neigh? (for the Week of Dec. 31, 2006) |
Q. Dear Twig: Not that I want to do it myself, but what's the deal about people eating horse meat?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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02/02/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: How to Stop Another Katrina (for the Week of Feb. 11, 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?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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03/23/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Hypothetical Groundhog/Whistlepig Food-snarfing and/or Projectile-projecting (for the Week of March 23, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: If, in fact, a Marmota monax could ingest and/or lob the secondary xylem of trees and shrubs, how much of the secondary xylem of trees and shrubs could a Marmota monax, in fact, ingest and/or lob? |
Kurt Knebusch |
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12/12/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Jingle Bells, Why Batman Smells (for the Week of Dec. 16, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: I have a question about the words that my sister and I sing to "Jingle Bells."
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Kurt Knebusch |
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01/09/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Kilimanjaro Snow No Mo'? (for the Week of Jan. 14, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: What does global warming have to do with the snows of Kilimanjaro?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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03/09/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Kinda Clammy! (for the Week of March 9, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: How many kinds of clams are there?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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02/15/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Kiwis Can't Fly; Neither Can Kiwis (for the Week of Feb. 15, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: Where do kiwis come from? The fruit, not the bird.
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Kurt Knebusch |
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08/20/2001 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Large round bales (for the week of Sept. 9, 2001) |
Dear Twig: What are those big, round things I see in farmersâ fields? They look like bales of hay.
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Kurt Knebusch |
Bill Weiss |
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07/02/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Lightning and Birds (for the Week of July 5, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: Do birds ever get hit by lightning?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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10/26/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Locking Deer Antlers (for the Week of Nov. 4, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Do deer ever get their antlers stuck together?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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06/28/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Lucky Stones, Lucky Fish, Lucky Finder (for the Week of June 28, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: My sister and my friend and I found lucky stones on a beach at Lake Erie. My aunt said they came from the ears of a fish. True?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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09/24/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Mammoth Effort (for the Week of Sept. 23, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: What did you mean, ‘Bring back the mammoth'? Is someone going to bring back a mammoth?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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01/27/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Manure, Write On! (for the Week of Jan. 27, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: I bet you didn't know this. I bet you didn't know that you can turn manure into paper.
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Kurt Knebusch |
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05/04/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Mononga-how-la? (for the Week of May 4, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: "Monangaheely"? I don't get that either.
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Kurt Knebusch |
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08/26/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Motorcycle Muffins (for the Week of Aug. 26, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Can animal poop on the road cause a crash?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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