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  Lucky Turkeys "Liberty" And "Bell" Receive Presidential Pardon November 21,2023 By Kavi Dolasia President Joe Biden marked his 81st birthday by  partaking  in a  cherished  Thanksgiving tradition on November 20, 2023. The US leader used his  executive  powers to spare two lucky turkeys named "Liberty" and "Bell" from the Thanksgiving table. The gorgeous  toms  were named after the famous  Liberty Bell  in Philadelphia. They will spend the rest of their lives under the watchful eyes of students studying animal science at the University of Minnesota. "These birds have a new  appreciation  of the words "let freedom ring," Mr. Biden said. "I hereby  pardon  Liberty and Bell." The 20-week-old birds both weigh about 42 pounds (19 kg). They were hatched in July on a family farm in Wilmar, Minnesota, as part of the "presidential flock." Their training included listening to music to get more  comfortable  with...

A 15-color rainbow spiral made with 12,000 dominoes  A rainbow spiral of 12,000 dominoes falls and rises a few times in  this video  from  prolific domino YouTuber Lily Hevesh  of  Hevesh5 , a collaboration with Steve Price of  Sprice Machines  and Hayden Russell, aka  Dynamic Domino . They spent two days building the 15-color domino speed wall chain reaction. Next, watch  The Amazing Triple Spiral (15,000 dominoes) ,  Unconventional Domino Tricks by Hevesh5 & Kaplamino ,  HUGE Domino Tower Fail ,  more chain reactions  and  more videos with rainbow colors . Note: The above comes directly from their website. Click here for more 

 The National Zoo's Beloved Giant Pandas Have Returned To China  November 16, 2023  By Marcela Bonet  With heavy hearts, officials at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, DC, have bid  farewell  to its three  resident  giant pandas. Mei Xiang, 25, Tian Tian, 26, and their 3-year-old son, Xiao Qi Ji, left for China aboard a  retrofitted  Boeing 777 aircraft on November 8, 2023. Upon reaching Chengdu on November 9, 2023, the  trio  was whisked away to the Wolong Panda Center. After a 30-day  quarantine , the  mammals  will be allowed to  mingle  with the 150 wild giant pandas at the nature reserve. "It's a place where they have lots and lots of giant pandas... how our giant pandas live here, very  similar  to that," said Bryan Amaral, the Zoo's senior  curator . "They just have a lot more giant pandas than we have. Where we have elephants and, you know, all kinds of other things, t...

 What does it take to raise a guide a dog puppy?  Guide Dogs  is a British charity dedicated to breeding and training assistance animals for blind or visually impaired people. “Before the pandemic,” BBC reporter Sean Dilley explains, “they bred as many as 1,500 dogs in a year.” But 2020’s five-month hiatus, a pause for volunteer and staff safety, impacted the organization’s breeding program; they lost a third of their puppy raisers. And though they are making strides in their recovery efforts,  they needed more compassionate volunteers to help raise guide dog puppies . Note: The above comes directly from their website. Click here for more 

14-Year-Old Heman Bekele is "America's Top Young Scientist With about 100,000 new cases  diagnosed  annually, skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the US. It is also  expensive  to treat. The  CDC  estimates that over $8 billion is spent annually to fight the disease. Now, scientists may have some help from 14-year-old Heman Bekele. The ninth-grader from Annandale, Virginia, has created a cheap bar of soap that could  potentially  help fight skin cancer. His invention won him the title of "America's Top Young Scientist" at the 3M Young Scientist Challenge on October 10, 2023. The teenager moved from Ethiopia to the US at the age of four. He recalls seeing the locals constantly working under the hot Sun. Since most skin cancers result from too much  exposure  to the Sun's  ultraviolet  rays, Bekele wondered if  he could find an  affordable  way to fight the disease. He came up with the idea of making ...

 Kaplamino's adeptly engineered Kapla domino trick  The blue Kapla planks are the dominoes. The red Kaplas are used as mechanisms or key parts of the chain reactions. The natural Kapla planks are used to create the structures. This adeptly-engineered Kaplamino video  is full of fantastic tricks: Planks clatter up and down stairs. Towers and bridges tumble. A Kapla wheel rolls and falls. Kaplas are catapulted through the air. They write, “I tried to use only big and impressive structures, which you can’t do with normal-sized dominoes.” Note: The above comes directly from their website. Click here for more.

  NASA.gov:  Curious Universe Podcast Our universe is a wild and wonderful place. Join NASA astronauts, scientists, and engineers on a new adventure each episode — all you need is your curiosity! First-time space explorers welcome. Note:  The above comes directly from their website.  Click here to listen to the podcasts.