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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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08/07/2001 |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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02/10/2008 |
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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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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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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09/19/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Dude, What's with the (Recycled) Pencils? (for the Week of Sept. 21, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: I know something else they make pencils out of. It isn't plastic, either. It's paper!
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Kurt Knebusch |
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09/06/2001 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Draft horses (for the week of 9-16-01) |
Dear Twig: Tell me about draft horses. I saw some at our county fair. They were huge!
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Kurt Knebusch |
Karen Wimbush |
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08/13/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Don't Waste That Food Waste, or When Good Things Happen to Bad Doodles (for the Week of Aug. 17, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: OK, so what's a better thing to do with food waste — be it old fish tacos, be it stale Cheez Doodles, be it bags of muffin stumps — than bury it in a landfill?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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03/12/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Does Tomato Juice Stop Skunk Stink? (for the Week of March 18, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Does tomato juice work to get rid of skunk stink?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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04/02/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Do Skunks Spray Other Skunks? (for the Week of April 8, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: So ... do skunks ever spray each other?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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04/12/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Deer! (Snort, Bleat, Grunt) (for the Week of April 12, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: Do deer make sounds?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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01/05/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Deer Me: Where to Sleep? (for the Week of Jan. 5, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: Where do deer sleep during winter?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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09/27/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Dead Tree Standing (for the Week of Sept. 30, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: What good are dead trees? There's one in the woods behind our house. My dad says he won't cut it down.
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Kurt Knebusch |
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04/10/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Dandy, Yes, But Not Before Bed (for the Week of April 15, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Why are dandelions called dandelions?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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04/27/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Cuya-who-ga? (for the Week of April 27, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: "Cuyahoggily"? I don't get it.
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Kurt Knebusch |
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02/22/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Cool Cold Kiwis (for the Week of Feb. 22, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: OK, here's your kiwifruit. So how can I grow my own kiwifruit?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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03/28/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Chucks with Gnarly Choppers! (for the Week of March 30, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: Woodchucks? Needing braces? Of what might you be talking, Twiggis?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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04/23/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Chub? What it is (for the Week of April 29, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: My friend went fishing and caught a chub. Chub? I don't even know what that is!
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Kurt Knebusch |
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