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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Raccoon Latrines and Why to Avoid Them in Case You Don't Do It and Aren't a Raccoon (for the Week of Aug. 2, 2009)
August 2, 2009 Q. Dear Twig: What's a raccoon latrine? A. It's a place where a raccoon goes to the bathroom over and over and over again. Or a place where a lot of raccoons do it. It could be on a tree stump. Or up in the crotch of a tree. Or ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: People Behind Climate Change? (for the Week of Feb. 4, 2007)
January 29, 2007 Q. Dear Twig: What's causing global climate change? Some people say it's people. Some people say that's bunk. A. I'm a bug. An insect. A northern walking stick. So I'll base what I say on the brains of humans who ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: People-sized Penguins (for the Week of July 1, 2007)
July 1, 2007 Q. Dear Twig: Did you hear about the giant penguin? Some scientists found some fossils from one. What's the biggest penguin today? What's the biggest penguin ever? A. Yes, I heard about the giant penguin. Web sites and papers ran ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Paddy the Beaver Gets a Clonking (for the Week of July 19, 2009)
July 19, 2009 Q. Dear Twig: Do the trees beavers cut down ever fall on and squish the beavers? A. Hardly ever, though you'd think it would happen a lot. You'd think that cutting down trees with your teeth would make the trees fall on your head ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Pacific Trash Vortex (for the Week of Oct. 28, 2007)
October 25, 2007 Q. Dear Twig: Here's what my friend Steve said at lunch: that there's a great big pile of plastic garbage floating in the middle of the ocean. True? A.: True. And I'm blue. It's in the northern Pacific Ocean. And it� ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Osage Can You See? (for the Week of Oct. 26, 2008)
October 26, 2008 Q. Dear Twig: What are those green things? Under that tree? They're all kind of big, round and wrinkly. A. So, like, I can't see the tree. I can't see the green things. But maybe I can guess what they are. You say they' ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Osage Orange You Glad to See One? (for the Week of Nov. 2, 2008)
November 2, 2008 Q. Dear Twig: Did you find any Osage oranges? A. I did. I'm standing here in front of them now. I'm hoping they don't start to roll. I'll try to describe them for you. First, they're round like a ball. Halfway i ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Oy, One More on Osage Oranges (for the Week of Nov. 9, 2008)
November 9, 2008 Q. Dear Twig: All right, I'll ask. What eats Osage oranges? A. Osage oranges, the fruit of the Osage-orange tree, aren't in fact oranges. Maybe you remember that from last week or the week before. And while people eat Osage or ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Oo! Blue Turkeys! (for the Week of Nov. 18, 2007)
November 14, 2007 Q. Dear Twig: Are there really blue turkeys? My friend I met at the fair this summer said there really are. I think it would be kind of cool to raise one for a 4-H project. A.: Blue turkeys, eh? Are they really cold? So cold their beaks ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Ode to the Otolith (with Drums and Grunts) (for the Week of Feb. 25, 2007)
February 16, 2007 Q. Dear Twig: My sister and my friend and I found "lucky stones" on a beach at Lake Erie. My aunt said they came from the ears of a fish. True? A. Yep, true. Props to your aunt! To be exact, the "lucky stones" that yo ...