Innholdsfortegnelse for November/December 2023 i Ask Science and Arts Magazine for Kids and Children

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Hundreds of years ago, the idea of seeing pictures move, talking to someone far away, or flying to another city through the air would have sounded like pure fantasy. Yet now people do those things all the time. Science has made these dreams real. Could it someday grant other fairy tale wishes? Sleepy Beauty Have you ever wished you could cast spells—just say something and have it come true? Maybe it’s just as well we can’t, or the next time you have a marathon burping contest, your sister might put you to sleep for 100 years, like Sleeping Beauty. Could anyone really sleep for 100 years? Probably not. The daily cycle of sleep and waking is programmed into every cell in your body and is hard to change. But some…

Prehistory Mystery Until very recently, people didn’t know very much about what the world was like before humans. The last dinosaurs died 65 million years ago. Humans have only been around for about 2 million years. So no human ever saw a living dinosaur. But our ancestors did find—and wonder about—dinosaur bones. Ancient people had their own ways of explaining these odd bones. They told stories about dragons, sea monsters, and other amazing creatures. One of these was the griffin, a cross between a lion and an eagle, rumored to live in the deserts of China. People from Asia to Rome told stories about griffins, each a little different, but all with gigantic beaks, claws, wings, and catlike bodies. Now take a look at the skull of a small dinosaur…

Many years ago—let’s say around the year 1937—a young man—let’s call him Jack—gazed out across his farm in the heart of Georgia. The pastures were looking weedy and thin. Jack’s cows were down to their last blades of grass. The soil was blowing away in the wind. Jack frowned. His farm was in big trouble. So Jack set off for town in hopes of finding a solution. On the way, he met a traveling salesman in a fancy suit, beaming a wide salesman’s smile. “Hold up there, young fella!” the salesman said. “Why so glum? My name is Channing Cope. Maybe I can help.” Jack told his woes to the salesman. “I’m at my wit’s end!” Jack sighed. “Ever heard of kudzu?” Cope asked, a gleam in his eye. Jack…

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