Your House, Made of Lego
How much Lego would you need to build your own house? A company made an online calculator to figure that out. You type in your house square-foot area and the number of floors…and it calculates how...
View ArticleThe Song That’s Stuck in Your Head
Have you ever had a song stuck in your head? It can be pretty annoying, even if you like the song. This is called an “earworm,” and scientists are trying to find out why this happens to us. They found...
View ArticleBest Drummer Ever
We humans have been banging drums ever since we lived in caves. But once in a while a new drummer is so amazing that we’re in awe. As this video shows, this guy plays on plastic buckets, but makes...
View ArticlePhoto-Fest
Our fan Yuri R. S. wrote in to ask, how many pictures are taken every year around the world? Unbelievably, it’s 1 trillion or more (1,000,000,000,000). With almost 7 billion cell phones out there,...
View ArticleThe Secret to Dice
Dice are a fun toy we can use in a lot of different games. A die is just a cube, a shape that has 6 flat square sides or “faces” with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 dots on each face. The die can land with any of...
View ArticleLand of the Flying Pumpkins
With Halloween and Thanksgiving behind us, America is done with pumpkins. So there are “Punkin Chunkin” contests across the U.S., where people bring all kinds of crazy machines they build to hurl...
View ArticleLiving La Vida Lego
When you build a house or castle out of Lego, you can’t help but think how cool it would be to live in a life-size building like that. Well, the California Legoland has done it with their Lego Hotel....
View ArticleWords That Make You Cross-eyed
A crossword puzzle is a set of words that cross where they share the same letter, and you read clues to figure out what words to write. If you have the word CAT and another word going down from that C,...
View ArticleYour Own Tie-Dyed Crayons
We all know some crayon colors are more popular than others, so what can you do with all the leftover little pieces? You can melt them down and make new crayons. As this page on instructables.com...
View ArticleChick-Tac-Toe
In tic-tac-toe, two players fill in Xs and Os on a grid of 9 little squares, and the first person to fill in 3 Xs or Os in a straight line wins. Both kids and grown-ups can play it — and apparently...
View ArticleJuggling Act
Have you ever tried to juggle? Here's a number you'll like to hear: there are just 3 basic ways to juggle that you need to learn. In the "cascade," an odd number of balls crisscross in the air. In the...
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