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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? Kurt Knebusch
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? Kurt Knebusch
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? Kurt Knebusch
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! Kurt Knebusch
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? Kurt Knebusch
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? Kurt Knebusch
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? Kurt Knebusch
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? Kurt Knebusch
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 ... Kurt Knebusch
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. Kurt Knebusch
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? Kurt Knebusch
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? Kurt Knebusch
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? Kurt Knebusch
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? Kurt Knebusch
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? Kurt Knebusch
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? Kurt Knebusch
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 ... Kurt Knebusch
09/15/2008 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: The Tree They Make Pencils Out Of (for the Week of Sept. 14, 2008) Q. Dear Twig: What kind of wood do they make wood pencils out of? Kurt Knebusch
02/08/2009 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Three More Questions About Chickens and Eggs (for the Week of Feb. 8, 2009) Q. Dear Twig: About those backyard chickens: Don't you need a rooster if you want them to lay eggs? (Also: How many? Large talons?) Kurt Knebusch
06/22/2007 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Tire Taters! (for the Week of June 24, 2007) Q. Dear Twig: My friend's dad is growing potatoes in old car tires. Why? How? Kurt Knebusch
07/13/2007 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: To Be in Clover (or Not to Bee) (for the Week of July 15, 2007) Q. Dear Twig: The lawn at my house has clover in it. Is that good or bad? Kurt Knebusch
08/30/2009 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Tomato Splatability (for the Week of Aug. 30, 2009) Q. Dear Twig: Why do some tomatoes splat more when I throw them at my brother? Kurt Knebusch
06/08/2008 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Tree Zapped by Zapping? Prognosis 'Not Great' (for the Week of June 8, 2008) Q. Dear Twig: A tree in our yard got hit by lightning. The trunk has a big long scar. Will it live? Kurt Knebusch
10/19/2008 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Turkey Beard? Weird! (for the Week of Oct. 19, 2008) Q. Dear Twig: Did you know that turkeys have beards? Kurt Knebusch
10/31/2001 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Turkey beards (for the week of Nov. 18, 2001) Dear Twig: I’ve heard that turkeys have beards. Is that true? Don’t they shave? Ha ha ha. Kurt Knebusch Karl Nestor
11/16/2008 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Turkey, Meet Godzilla (for the Week of Nov. 16, 2008) Q. Dear Twig: Who would win a fight between Godzilla and a turkey? A really big turkey. As big as Godzilla. Kurt Knebusch
04/26/2009 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Under a Squirrel's Parasol (for the Week of April 26, 2009) Q. Dear Twig: I like squirrels. Kurt Knebusch
04/17/2009 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Under a Squirrel's Umbrella (for the Week of April 19, 2009) Q. Dear Twig: I saw a squirrel use its tail as an umbrella. Kurt Knebusch
05/10/2009 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Using Your Nurdle (for the Week of May 10, 2009) Q. Dear Twig: What's a nurdle? Kurt Knebusch
07/08/2007 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Wet, Wild Fish Sounds (for the Week of July 8, 2007) Dear Twig: Can fish talk? Make sounds? Bloop? Bleep? Kurt Knebusch

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