I suspect that in every living situation you will experience a thermostat war at least once. My most heated experience (heated—do you see what I did there?) occurred during college when living with two other women off campus. We had noisy baseboard heat and two-thirds of us, including myself, preferred it to be cold in…
In looking for some interesting facts to get kids excited about measurement, I discovered some real doozies. Here’s an example: a woodpecker’s tongue can wrap around its head twice. Right away, I envisioned that poor woodpecker with its tongue tightly wound around its head! Then I came to my senses and decided this fact was…