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07/12/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: The Quills of Prickly Porky (for the Week of July 12, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: Why don't porcupines stick to things? All those pointy quills and all ...
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Kurt Knebusch |
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06/14/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: The Pull of the Pork (for the Week of June 14, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: Why do they call it pulled pork?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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01/09/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: The Polar Bear Question (for the Week of Jan. 6, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: The polar bears, remember? If the Arctic ice cap melts and shrinks, what will that do to them?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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06/21/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: The Part of the Pig (for the Week of June 21, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: OK, I'm curious. What's the part of the pig that pulled pork actually comes from?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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06/13/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: The Gift of Pbbbbbt! (for the Week of June 17, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: What does it mean to give someone a raspberry?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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01/11/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: The Eagle Has Landed ... on a Monkey (for the Week of Jan. 11, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: Is there really something called a monkey-eating eagle?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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05/29/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Tasmanian Devil in Devil of a Pickle (for the Week of June 1, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: We also talked in class about an animal called the Tasmanian devil. It's endangered. Why?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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04/20/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Susque-whatta? (Plus a New Reader Contest!) (for the Week of April 20, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: "Susquehanna." Now that's a beautiful word.
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Kurt Knebusch |
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02/15/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Stuck (or Not) on Porcupines (for the Week of Feb. 18, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Why don't porcupines stick to things? All those pointy quills and all ...
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Kurt Knebusch |
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10/21/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Squirrels A-fallin'! (for the Week of Oct. 21, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Do squirrels ever fall out of trees?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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09/08/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Spreading Better Butter Words (for the Week of Sept. 7, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: Why do they call it butter?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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05/03/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Splash in Trash (for the Week of May 3, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: What's going on with that big pile of trash in the ocean?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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05/14/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Someone Cut the Grass (for the Week of May 20, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Why does cut grass smell like it does?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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11/11/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Smelt It (for the Week of Nov. 11, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Guess what my uncle eats. Smelt!
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Kurt Knebusch |
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08/19/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Septic Secrets! (for the Week of Aug. 19, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: What goes on in a septic tank?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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08/26/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Send in the Clown Loaches (for the Week of Aug. 31, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: Erm, what's a clown loach?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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01/18/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: See Cow? No, Sea Cow (for the Week of Jan. 18, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: What's a sea cow?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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08/21/2008 |
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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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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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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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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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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07/19/2009 |
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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