Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2018 i National Geographic Kids

Who doesn’t love a thick, creamy milkshake? Get out your reusable straw and slurp up these facts about the sweet treat. EVERY AMERICAN EATS ON AVERAGE 8.4 POUNDS OF ICE CREAM EVERY YEAR. A SMALL MCDONALD’S VANILLA MILKSHAKE HAS 490 CALORIES AND 11 GRAMS OF PROTEIN. IT WOULD TAKE 5.28 million 16-OUNCE MILKSHAKES TO FILL AN OLYMPIC-SIZE SWIMMING POOL. A CHEF IN NEW YORK MADE A 6000- GALLON MILKSHAKE, WHICH IS THE SAME AS 48 000 NORMAL-SIZE MILKSHAKES. A MILKSHAKE STRAW IS 0.3 INCH IN DIAMETER AND NEARLY 8 INCHES LONG. THE ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR USED IN SOME STRAWBERRY MILKSHAKES CONTAINS ABOUT 40 DIFFERENT CHEMICALS. CHECK OUT THE BOOK!…

1 SCIENTISTS DISCOVER ITCH TRICK Having an itch you can’t scratch is the worst. But scientists say they’ve found a solution for people plagued with itchy ailments. A study found that scratching the non-itchy, opposite limb while using a mirror to make it look like it’s the itchy limb fools the brain into thinking the itch was scratched! The trick works like this: A mirror is placed between an itchy person’s two arms, and they’re asked to look into it so that they can’t see their itchy arm but instead only a reflection of the non-itchy one. Then someone else scratches the nonitchy arm. (The trick doesn’t work if the itchy person is doing the scratching.) Participants reported feeling relief when scientists performed the trick on them. Being fooled never…

SUPER-FURRY RABBIT Haircut … what’s that? With her nearly 15-inchlong hairs, Franchesca the Angora rabbit holds the record for the longest fur on a rabbit. One benefit is that she always has a cozy fur coat for the winter. The problem? According to owner Betty Chu, sometimes Franchesca’s mistaken for a dog! MAJOR BLING Shield your eyes: This jewel’s got some serious sparkle. The Pink Star jewel became the most expensive jewel sold at an auction after its owner paid $71.2 million for it. Jewelers took nearly two years to cut and polish the oval-shaped stone. Before being purchased, the Pink Star was displayed in museums around the world. You could look at it—but you definitely couldn’t touch it. READY , SET , JUMP!…

An island fox kit emerges from its underground den and sniffs the brush on Santa Cruz Island, some 20 miles off the southern coast of California. His brother follows, and the two foxes tumble over each other as they play fight. Soon their mother halts the fun, grooms both pups from head to tail, then leads them away to teach them how to hunt. A few decades ago, about 4,000 island foxes roamed Santa Cruz Island and two others in the Channel Islands National Park. But recently they nearly disappeared. Human activity had dangerously altered the foxes’ habitat, and by 1999 only about a hundred foxes remained. Scientists knew that if they wanted to save this fox—a species that lives nowhere else on Earth—they’d have to change the islands again.…

1 In New Zealandyou’ll soon be able to order pizza delivered by drone. 2 The first robotic dinosaur, modeled after a Troodon, was created in 2001. 3 One day, laptops will roll up like a yoga mat. 4 The earliest handheld cell phone sold for nearly $4,000 in 1984. 5 The first computer mouse was made mostly of wood. 6 Humans blink over 50% less when using a computer. 7 A newly invented light bulb needs to be changed only once every 20 years! 8 Scientists are studying the “spines”on the surface of cats’ tongues to develop a new high-tech hairbrush. 9 One computer system can tell the difference between a genuine smile and a false smile. 10 Nearly all cell phones in Japan are waterproof.…