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10/07/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Mountains Into Molehills (for the Week of Oct. 7, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Is "mountaintop removal" what it sounds like it is?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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05/23/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Native Bee Team (for the Week of May 27, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Are there other bees besides honeybees and bumblebees?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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03/02/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: New Fuels? Cool! (for the Week of March 2, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: You talked about electric cars. What other ways can you run a car?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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03/05/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Non-maple Tree Syrup (for the Week of March 11, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: I know maple syrup comes from maple tree sap. What other trees can you use to make syrup?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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10/16/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Now That Would Be a Great Pumpkin (for the Week of Oct. 12, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: What if there were flying pumpkins?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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05/24/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Nurdle Beach (for the Week of May 24, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: So what about nurdles?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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09/06/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Oak from Acorn? A-OK! (for the Week of Sept. 6, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: Can I grow an oak tree from an acorn?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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02/16/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Ode to the Otolith (with Drums and Grunts) (for the Week of Feb. 25, 2007) |
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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11/23/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Oh, Deer, Where's the Velvet? (for the Week of Nov. 23, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: The stuff that a deer rubs off of its antlers — the "velvet." What happens to it? My dad and I saw a rubbed tree but no velvet.
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Kurt Knebusch |
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08/23/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: One Gene, Two Gene, Red Gene, Blue Gene ... OK, Maybe Orange (for the Week of Aug. 23, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: What makes a tomato a certain color?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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11/14/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Oo! Blue Turkeys! (for the Week of Nov. 18, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Are there really blue turkeys?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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09/18/2001 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Organic farming (for the week of Sept. 30, 2001) |
Dear Twig: Whatâs organic farming?
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Kurt Knebusch |
Steve Sears |
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10/26/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Osage Can You See? (for the Week of Oct. 26, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: What are those green things? Under that tree? They're all kind of big, round and wrinkly.
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Kurt Knebusch |
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10/02/2001 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Osage orange trees (for the week of Oct. 14, 2001) |
Dear Twig: What are hedge apples? My father points them out to me when weâre driving in the country.
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Kurt Knebusch |
Ken Cochran |
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11/02/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Osage Orange You Glad to See One? (for the Week of Nov. 2, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: Did you find any Osage oranges?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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11/09/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Oy, One More on Osage Oranges (for the Week of Nov. 9, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: All right, I'll ask. What eats Osage oranges?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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10/25/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Pacific Trash Vortex (for the Week of Oct. 28, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Here's what my friend Steve said at lunch: that there's a great big pile of plastic garbage floating in the middle of the ocean. True?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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07/19/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Paddy the Beaver Gets a Clonking (for the Week of July 19, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: Do the trees beavers cut down ever fall on and squish the beavers?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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01/29/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: People Behind Climate Change? (for the Week of Feb. 4, 2007) |
Dear Twig: What's causing global climate change? Some people say it's people. Some people say that's bunk.
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Kurt Knebusch |
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07/01/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: People-sized Penguins (for the Week of July 1, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Did you hear about the giant penguin?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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05/27/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Polar Bears Threatened? (for the Week of May 25, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: We talked in class about polar bears. They just got listed as "threatened." What's it mean?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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10/31/2001 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Pumpkin glop (for the week of Nov. 11, 2001) |
Dear Twig: What's the glop inside pumpkins called?
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Kurt Knebusch |
Matt Kleinhenz |
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08/21/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Purple Box, Detector Gadget (for the Week of Aug. 24, 2008) |
Dear Twig: There's a funny purple box in a tree by the road near my house. I live in northern Ohio. I saw one in Pennsylvania, too. What are they?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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09/20/2001 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Pygmy goats (for the week of Oct. 7, 2001) |
Dear Twig: I saw some tiny goats at the zoo. They looked like they were full-grown, not babies. What were they?
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Kurt Knebusch |
Steve Loerch |
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08/02/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Raccoon Latrines and Why to Avoid Them in Case You Don't Do It and Aren't a Raccoon (for the Week of Aug. 2, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: What's a raccoon latrine?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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03/23/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Ranking Skunk Species (for the Week of April 1, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: You said there are several skunk species. How do they smell? The same? Different?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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05/19/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Raven 'bout Crows (for the Week of May 18, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: What's the difference between a crow and a raven?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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09/29/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Run, Hamster, Run (for the Week of Oct. 5, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: My pet hamster runs in her wheel all the time. OK, not all the time, but a lot. At least at night. How far do you think she runs?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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10/14/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Science Class Under the Sea (for the Week of Oct. 14, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: My teacher told us about a class called Project SeaCAMEL. What is it?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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04/05/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Seahorse Manure (for the Week of April 5, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: How do seahorses go to the bathroom?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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