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10 Happening in the World—Waves of Migrants and Refugees

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What kind of music do mummies like?

What problem did the mummy call the doctor about?

Mummies go for a swim in the . . .

What does a burglar mummy wear?

Why were ancient Egyptian children so confused?

What room can you NOT keep a mummy in?

What do mummies do on vacation?

What do ancient Egyptians call their parents?

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Mummies like Nefertiti and Tut prefer old jokes. So use

the hieroglyphics in the key to get your laughs.

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Save the Seeds!

Australian Merino sheep are bred to make lots of wool. But nor-mally, those sheep are shorn each year. Each one will give about 11 pounds of wool when shorn. That’s enough to make about four sweaters. But Chris the sheep got lost in the Australian bush. (That’s the Aussie word for wilderness.) He had not been shorn for years—if ever! When he was found, he was quite wild. But he was too weighed down by his own fleece to resist his rescue. A champion sheep shearer helped relieve Chris of half his body weight in wool. Caregivers say it is unlikely Chris could have lived much longer without help. The good wool he was designed to give was slowly killing him. The heavy fleece may be a new Guinness World Record. When Chris’s coat came o�, it weighed 89 pounds. The previous record for weighty fleece was from a New Zealand sheep called Big Ben. That fleece weighed only 63 pounds, 11 ounces.

The Lost and Overgrown Sheep

Ken Greene’s farm looks like it’s been aban-doned. Flowers turn brown. Corn stalks wilt. Melon leaves lie crinkled in the dirt. It looks like a mess. But it’s really a perfect organic seed harvest waiting to happen. Mr. Greene and his partner Doug Muller own a small business in New York. It is called the Hudson Valley Seed Library. They collect most of their seeds by hand. They put them carefully into hand-decorated envelopes. Then they sell them to others. The

two men sell only heirloom (that means not genetically modified,

among other things) seeds or seeds naturally pollinated by

the wind, insects, or birds. Other growers will sell their seeds to the Seed Library too. That lets the owners o�er about 400 di�erent types of seeds includ-ing flowers, vegetables, greens, and spices. The business has three goals. First is to educate others about how plants are grown. (That food on your plate starts from a seed!) Next, to encourage seed-saving so there

is no future concern for shortages. And finally, to help maintain a diverse variety

of plants for all who want to grow them.

More shorts online every day!

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A United Nations youth group wants to help the environment. The youth decided to plant a billion trees. Trees turn carbon dioxide into oxygen. That cleans the air. But before they got started, the youth decided to find out how much a billion trees would help. Researcher Thomas Crowther of Yale University mapped the Earth’s trees. The result was a big surprise. He found over three trillion trees. That was many more than expected. Just how big is a trillion compared to a billion? A billion seconds is almost 32 years. A trillion seconds is nearly 32,000 years! So what did the youth group decide to do when they found out the number of trees on Earth was so large? They set a goal to plant 18 billion trees instead of just one billion. Planting all those trees will be a challenge. For starters, where will they put them?

Trillions of Trees


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“Unwrapping” the MummiesWhat’s under a mummy’s wrappings? A new exhibit, “Mummies: Secrets from the Tombs” uses technology to find out. This exhibit opened in September. It started at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum. Each mummy got a CT scan. Computers next to the mummies show the scans. That way, museum visitors can look at each mummy inside

and out. The exhibit is divided into two parts. One has mummies

from Egypt. The other has mummies from Peru. In

some ways, they are alike. In others, they are

di�erent. Peruvians of all social classes were mummified. Their mum-mies show more people broken down by hard work. Only rich Egyptians could a�ord to mummify their remains. X-rays show what’s under the bandages. There are fancy hairstyles,

clothing, and jewelry. Some were buried with exotic pets. Crocodile and baboon mummies are

part of the display. Most of the mummies have not been on exhibit in over 100 years. The exhibit

will travel to other cities. Then it will return to Chi-cago’s Field Museum. The mummies will remain a part

of the largest mummy collection in the United States.

A CT scan from a Peruvian mummy of a woman with two children

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Protesters block the road to the mountain top.

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A big disagreement has started to stir around Hawaii’s bellybut-ton. Did you know Hawaii had a bellybutton? It’s a crater on volcano Mauna Kea. Tradition calls it “the navel of Hawaii.” The volcano sits just above the island’s middle. And it stretches even higher than the clouds!

If you were building a new telescope, Mauna Kea would make the perfect construction site. The mountain measures 13,796 feet above sea level. You can see the sky plainly there for 300 days a year. Clear, dry air surrounds the volcano. That makes telescope images extra sharp. Builders have worked on a new, 18-story telescope since last October. But a group of native Hawaiians doesn’t like it one bit.

Right now, the Mauna Kea volcano is fast asleep. But its Hawaiian culture is wide awake. The mountain is home to hundreds of important sites. Long ago, Hawaiians believed their gods lived there. Some Hawaiians use the water from a

Computer art showsthe planned telescope.

lake on Mauna Kea in healing rituals. They scatterashes of loved ones on the mountain. They believe their ancestors are buried there.

Hawaiian protesters blow conch shells. They wave Hawaiian fl ags. They try to block the entrance to the mountain. “This land is sacred!” they say. “We don’t want a telescope here!”

At least, they don’t want another telescope there. Mauna Kea already has 13 huge telescopes. The new one is called the Thirty Meter Telescope. It will be the biggest of them all . . . if it gets fi nished.

This June, telescopes from Mauna Kea and other places helped scientists make a great dis-covery. But they had to work together. Scientists studied views from fi ve telescopes. The whole picture showed several bright galaxies. What a fi nd! Scientists are excited to add images from the Thirty Meter Telescope. It could show them even more parts of the universe they have never seen.

Should the telescope go up or not? It will take wisdom for lawmakers to decide.

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God. — James 1:5

Other telescopes dot the peaks of

Mauna Kea.

Telescope Tangle

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Let’s say you’re a kid living near Des Moines,Iowa. You just got a brand-new telescope, and it’s getting very dark outside. Finally! The time has

come to give it a try!You start from your bedroom on the top

floor of the house. The closer you are to the sky, the better you’ll see it. Right? You stick your telescope out the window. You look through the eyepiece, but everything appears blurry. What could be wrong?

Hot air always flows toward a place of cooler air. If the temperature in your bedroom

measures higher or lower than the air outside, an air current will form. That will make your tele-scope’s image quality go down.

Next, you try observing the sky from your deck. You’ve just leaned up close to the scope . . . when your brother hops by. The deck vibrates. So does

the image in your scope. The more closely you magnify the image, the worse it gets! Not only that, your house naturally gives off heat at nighttime. That means more air currents, and worse images.

Finally, you try out the best place you have for sky watching—the grassy area

in your backyard. But you don’t live on a mountain top. You live in a flat spot.

That means you have to look through great amounts of blurry atmosphere before you can see deep into the sky. And just as you get planted firmly, a cat skitters by, setting off your neighbor’s porch light. Suddenly you can’t see much at all. What a disaster!

The world’s best observatories have several things in common. People put them in places with clear weather where the sky grows very dark at night. Observatories work best in high places. In Chile, a famous telescope called The Very Large Telescope operates from the desert. The dryness of the atmo-sphere there means radio waves can come through clearly. The Mauna Kea telescopes

sit above 40 percent of Earth’s atmosphere. Because of that, they don’t have to do all the

extra work yours does. It takes a while to learn the best ways and

places to use a telescope. But sky-watchers will tell you: The view is worth the wait.

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Most of us know pollution when we see it.Trash piles up in the street. Air grows so thick with harmful gasses it becomes hard to breathe. Raw sewage runs into a once-clean lake. But peo-ple sometimes struggle to recognize another kind of pollution. In fact, this kind of pollution is all about what you can’t see.

Light pollution happens when unnecessary use of light blocks the night sky. Kids who grow up in cities, where countless lights run all night long, might not get to see stars much at all. With all those hot buildings and bright lights, imagine try-ing to use a telescope there! When city-dwellers get to the country for the first time and see the sky full of stars, they can hardly believe their eyes!

But light pollution doesn’t just affect what people see. It can affect people’s health too. God designed our bodies to wake up in the daylight and sleep at

A panorama view from Mt.Washington, Nevada. The glowof the Milky Way competes with

city lights on the horizon.

night. People inventedelectric light. Usually, it serves as a great bless-ing by making life eas-ier. But too much elec-tric light can confuse the body’s circadian rhythm. The circadian rhythm is a master biological clock. It regulates when we become sleepy and when we’re alert. A confused

circadian rhythm can make us sick. Life with no night in sight harms animals too. Nocturnal ani-mals are designed to sleep during the day and be awake at night. What can they do when nighttime looks like day?

In 2001, a program called Dark Sky started. Dark Sky teaches people about light pollution. It shows them how to use light well. That means using types of streetlights, porch lights, and other lights that shine downward instead of all around. That way, light will shine in the spots where peo-ple need it instead of toward the night sky.

Dark Sky also sets up International Dark Sky Sanctuaries and Reserves. You can think of these places kind of like zoos for stars. Dark Sky makes sure the skies in these places stay dark so that people can enjoy them.

We are “sky stewards.” The sky tells us about God’s great glory. What can you do to make sure people can see it?

A painting of Galileo showing his telescope

to the leaders of Venice, Italy

No Night in Sight

A stone chapel under a starry sky near Lake Tekapo. In October, New

Zealanders celebrated this area being named the southern hemisphere’s

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1. Why do some native Hawaiians dislike the new telescope?

■ a) They don’t like astronomy. ■ b) They believe Mauna Kea is sacred.■ c) They want to tear old telescopes

down.■ d) They think it won’t work.

2. Which is the best place for a telescope?■ a) an open window■ b) a grassy backyard■ c) a mountain top■ d) a deck

3. What is true about light pollution? ■ a) It comes from streetlights that

point down. ■ b) It can confuse the bodies

of animals.■ c) It can confuse the bodies of people.■ d) b and c

4. What is the Hubble Telescope? ■ a) an invention by Galileo■ b) a scope that divides starlight

into its colors

■ c) a telescope in space ■ d) an early form of lens 5. Scientists are asking some questions that God already told us the answers to. What is an example of one of these questions?

In 1609, the optic lens had already beeninvented. People in Europe wore glasses, used binoculars, and even had telescopes. But astron-omy really changed when an Italian instru-ment-maker named Galileo pointed his telescope toward the sky. The scope was a simple wooden tube. It had two lenses. What Galileo first saw might not sound impressive to us. (He glimpsed just a few craters on the moon and the Milky Way.) But for his time, the discovery was extraordinary!

Galileo’s telescope changed people’s minds about how the universe works. For the first time, people began to see that the Earth revolved around the Sun. It also changed the way people thought about science. Suddenly, people didn’t get to decide what the universe was like. They had to rely on facts. Thanks to the telescope, they could observe the facts for themselves.

As history marched on, telescopes grew stron-ger. They showed more precise images. In the 19th century, the spectroscope arrived on the scene. The spectroscope divides starlight into its different colors. The patterns the colors

make shows a star’s elements. Suddenly, astronomers could

An image from the Hubble Space Telescope

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find out more than a star’s location. They could also find out what it was made of.

In the coming years, scientists realized some-thing else. They needed more than bigger tele-scopes. They needed to look at space from space. When they observed from the ground, Earth’s atmosphere got in the way. Looking at the stars through the atmosphere is like looking at some-thing through a glass of water. You can see this for yourself. Stars that appear to be twinkling in the sky are actually just getting “bent” by the atmosphere.

In the 1940s, an astronomer named Lyman Spitzer made a suggestion. Why not send a tele-scope to space? By 1990, the Hubble Space Tele-scope had launched into orbit. It still orbits 343 miles above Earth. Hubble sends us incredibly sharp images. It tells us when stars come to life or die. It tries to answer questions about the uni-verse. How old is it? How big is it? Where did it come from?

We know that God made the universe just by speak-ing. Will the Hubble Space Telescope be able to tell us more details?

From Galileo to Hubble

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On the island of Lesbos inGreece, thousands of people wait in lines all day long. They have not showered in days. Their families have been sleeping on card-board in the streets. Fights break out. Police use batons to break them up. No one expects this kind of thing at the lush, green island. People there expect traditional villages and beautiful birds, not mobs!

Usually, about 100,000 people live on Lesbos. But this summer, 20,000 migrants and refugees set up camp there too. The travelers came from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Many are escaping the brutal Syrian civil war. Some are running away because they don’t want to join the army. Some are afraid the Islamic State will kill them.

Others fl ee poverty. Lesbos is their fi rst stop on the way to European countries that will take them in. But like many other places in the world, Les-bos isn’t ready to handle so many

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new people at once. Where can they allstay? No one has enough room! Where will their trash go? No one even has space for that! Bottles, plastic bags, and cardboard get thrown into the sea. Lit-ter covers the streets.

This is a time of crisis, or great diffi -culty and danger. And it isn’t just affecting the people of Lesbos. Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African people are fl ocking to countries all over Europe.

They pack themselves into trains to get to Hun-gary. They pile into rickety boats to get to Italy. To get to Norway—one of Europe’s richest coun-tries—some even go through Russia on bicycles! In that part of the world, it is illegal for migrants to come in on foot. It is also illegal for local people to give them rides. So the movers pedal through deep snow and temperatures below zero. They usually have to leave their new bicycles behind as they move deeper into Europe.

The world has not seen a migra-tion like this since the end of World War II. Back then, many Europeans left their homes for safer or richer coun-tries. This crisis is so big it will not go away quickly. How will the refugees cope? What about the people of Lesbos? Time will tell . . . lots and lots of time.

Migrants and refugees wade to shore after crossing in a raft from Turkey to Lesbos island, Greece.

Life vests, tubes, and other items tossed aside by refugees line the Greek island’s shore.

Syrian refugees on the move along a railway track through

Serbia and into Hungary

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no protection from their home countries.Migrants leave their home countries too. But they

do it for very different reasons. A migrant might go elsewhere because he or she wants a job. He or she might want to join family members or to study somewhere else. Unlike refugees, migrants have the protection of their own governments.

Which of our movers is a refugee and which is a migrant? Wafaa is running away from war. She is a refugee. Mekdad left Turkey in hopes of making more money. He is a migrant.

Migrants and refugees are very different. But they are not always easy to tell apart—especially as they fl ood into countries by the boatload. That puts host countries in a serious pickle! They cannot help everyone at once. They have to decide: How badly does each person need help?

Migrant Mekdad Marey

Refugee Wafaa Bukai

?WhY MoVe Wafaa Bukai is 25

years old, and very far from home. She waits in a camp in the

European country of Serbia. But she carries items that remind her of her homeland.

One is a scrapbook. In one picture, Wafaa is a little girl in school. In another, she plays at the beach with her family. She also carries a seashell while she travels. She bought it in Damascus, the capital of Syria. “My homeland is destroyed and not safe,” she says. “I remember Damascus everywhere.”

A few countries over, someone else is on the move. His name is Mekdad Marey. He also travels with a prized possession: a neck brace. Mekdad is also 25. He came from Syria to Egypt to study. After that, he worked with computers in Turkey. Now he waits in Hungary. He believes his horrible back pain comes from all the time he spent leaned over a desk. Like many other movers, Mekdad wants to go to Germany. He can make more money there. He’s also hoping a good Ger-man doctor can fi x his back.

In 1951, the United Nations made an important decision. They determined the difference between a refugee and a migrant. According to their deci-sion, someone who has to run away from his or her country deserves the name refugee. Refugees fl ee war or persecution. They have


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If you look in the news for information about ref-ugees, you will see all kinds of sad pictures. You will see little children in rickety boats. You will see wid-ows walking miles in search of safety. Because of the uproar in the Middle East right now, life has become very hard for the people in these pictures. But most of the movers actually aren’t helpless women and children. In fact, if you saw ten mov-ers stashed into a boat, seven of them would be men. You might think: So what? Who cares if the movers are men?

The number of men moving into Europe gives us a big clue. Usually, when men—especially young men—relocate, they are not running for their lives. They are usually looking for a place where they can make more money. Do you remember the word for a person who does that? That’s right: migrant, not refugee.

In many places around the world, people make very little money—less than one or two dollars a day! It is no surprise that people from these places would want to move away. If there was a safe, wealthy country nearby, wouldn’t you want to go there too?

But no matter where you migrate, there are rules you have to follow. That seems like a pain, but it’s actually fair and good. Each country has laws and procedures for how to get in. This process usually

isn’t quick. And if you really need more money, it can seem to take forever! That’s why many peo-ple right now are not following the rules at all. Instead, they are being smuggled into rich countries.

If you live in the United States, that might not sound like a big deal. Compared to Europe, the United States is huge! Every state is almost like a single European country. European countries just don’t have enough room to take in thousands of people. And if migrants are breaking the law and getting in faster, what will happen to the refugees? The refugees are the neediest people of all—the people from the very sad pictures. If migrants take up their spots in rich countries by breaking the law, the refugees will have nowhere to go!

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Refugees go through razor wire meant to keep people out of Hungary. How many

refugees should each nation help?

Crowds at a train station in Hungary. But which

ones are truly refugees and which ones are migrants?

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Quiz1. Why are people on the move?

■ a) They want a chance to make more money.

■ b) They are escaping civil war. ■ c) They are fleeing for their lives.■ d) all of the above

2. Which describes a refugee? ■ a) One who moves to study.■ b) One who moves to flee war.■ c) One who moves to see family.■ d) One who moves to get a job.

3. How do countries decide who gets in?■ a) They let everyone in.■ b) They let hard workers in.■ c) They let in people who follow

the rules.■ d) They never let anyone in.

4. Which of these things do migrants and refugees need?

■ a) a peaceful homeland■ b) shoes■ c) food and water■ d) all of the above

5. How should Christians think about the migration crisis?

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As Christians, we have a lot of commandsfrom God about how to treat others. God tells us to love our neighbors just like we love our-selves. He tells us to show hospitality to needy people. He even says that while we’re being kind to strangers, we might be entertaining angels without knowing it! (Hebrews 13:2) What if you had a refugee over to dinner, and he or she turned out to be an angel? You would be glad you didn’t miss that dinner appointment!

All these things should come to mind when we’re thinking about refugees and migrants. Many of the people on the move have been driven out by evil governments. Many of them need a great deal of help. They need simple things we take for granted every day: somewhere to live, food, water, and good shoes for their journeys. They are not just intruders. They are people made in God’s image. Most of them are Muslim. They need to know the truth about Jesus just like we do.

We can ask God to give us wisdom about how to help these people best. But what about people who live in the countries to which movers are

traveling? We can think about their welfare too.Will the great numbers of people flooding into Europe make life harder for everyone there—including the movers? If immigration laws are broken, how will the world handle this huge cri-sis? What rules will guide them?

Above all, we can pray that God brings peace to the places the movers come from. How won-derful it would be if migrants and refugees could prosper in the places they call home!

Refugees in need of help after making it to Greece

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“I . . . AM . . . A . . . ROBOT. . . I . . . AM . . .HERE . . . TO . . . MILK . . . YOUR . . . COW.”

If you’ve seen a robotic milking machine,you know they don’t look like your usual robot. Sadly, they don’t talk either—as fun as that is to imagine. But robotic milkers can help farmers work faster, smarter, and even cheaper. That’s why more and more U.S. farmers have installed the robots in their cow barns—even if they have only small farms.

The robotic milking system was invented in Europe. It fi rst came to the United States in 2000. For years, mostly big farms used it. After all, it wasn’t cheap! The machines can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

But running a farm without milking machines costs quite a few buckaroos too. Milking machines replace expensive and hard-to-fi nd laborers. (Would you stand in line to get up at the crack of dawn to milk a disgruntled cow?) Laborers replaced by milker robots can spend their time doing other farm

tasks. Best of all, robot-milked cows give more milk. That’s because they

can visit the milker when-ever they want—a

luxury they would

. . . really?

never have working with human laborers.Robot milkers work like this. A cow steps

inside a stall. Grain dumps down in front of it. A mechanical arm reaches down to wash its udder. After a laser scans the cow’s body, the arm uses a kind of cup to milk the cow. All the while, the robot milker is answering questions. How much milk does each cow give? What is the cow’s body temperature? How much does it weigh? How often does it visit the milking stall? To get all that info, the farmer doesn’t even have to set foot in the barn! He or she just checks it on the computer. From the machine’s gathered data, he or she can make decisions about the cows. And for once, the farmer might get to sleep in!

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A cow stands in the milking stall.

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If you stood beside Pepper, you might noticeyou measure near the same size. He stands about four feet tall. He weighs 61 pounds. But with the fi rst quick glance you would know he’s a robot, not a person like you.

Robots all have a certain set of characteristics in common. To count as a robot, a machine must have a body that it can move. Pepper has this quality. He rolls around on a sleek, white base. Pepper shares the rest of the characteristics too. An energy source powers him. His sensory system can collect infor-mation, and then tell his body how to respond. He can adapt to his circumstances. His intelligence comes from computer program-ming. A human being has to start him up. After that, he performs tasks on his own.

But Pepper adds an impressive quality to the list. Pepper’s inven-tors claim that he can read people’s feelings. That makes sense for robots in science fi ction. But can it really be true in real life?

This June, Pepper’s manufacturers released him to the market in Japan. He sold out in just one

minute! Pepper’s inventors designed him to read human emotions. If you frown at him, he should know you feel unhappy. If you speak to him in an angry tone, he should recognize your annoyance.

Pepper doesn’t just read emotions, though. He also develops his own. His sur-roundings change how he “feels.” People he knows make him comfort-able. When it gets dark, he grows afraid. And he can tell you all about his “feelings” in English, Spanish, Japanese, and French.

Unlike robots like Roomba, which vacuum fl oors, or robotic milkers, Pepper isn’t designed for physical work. Instead he is supposed to act like a companion. His makers hope he will eventually become a friend to the elderly or sick.

But even if robots can learn to “feel” (we have our doubts!), they will never really replace people as companions. God made people in

His image. They use their brains to make life easier and work quicker. Robots can be part of that. But robots will never have the heart and soul of a real person like you. Only God can make those!

fear level...

You vs. Robot

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What do you want to be when you grow up? A new list released by scholars Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne might make you rethink your options.

The list shows all the things robots are good and bad at. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which transmits information all over the world, used the robot report in its search engine. You can type in whatever job you have (or would like to have). Then the BBC tool will tell you: Will a robot likely take that job in the near future?

Robot jobs don’t come as a surprise to us. Little bots are already doing big jobs that save humans work. The company Amazon has the biggest online store in the world. It uses a bright orange “robot army.” The robots scurry around warehouses. They move packages from the shelves to human employees. That saves Amazon employees 20 miles of walking every day! It also triples the amount of packages they can handle in an hour. Farmers use robots too. Lettuce-bots pull up weeds. Wine-bots prune grapevines.

Bot-jobs can even protect people from danger. In a California pharmacy, robots fi ll prescrip-

Robot Jobs

. . . is fetching boxes all day, like these orange

Amazon warehouse bots.

. . . is to disarm bombs, like the iRobot 310 SUGV.

. . . is to crawl inside a damaged nuclear reactor,

like this Toshiba snake bot.

tions. They make very few mistakes. That putsfewer people in danger of taking the wrong med-ication. Robots are even used to disable bombs. That means fewer humans have to put them-selves in harm’s way.

What kinds of jobs do robots do well? According to the research, they’re great at doing the same tasks over and over. They also work well with numbers and other data. That makes them ideal candidates for jobs involving telephone sales or typing. They would also make good bank clerks or post offi ce workers.

Most people don’t like doing repetitive tasks all day long. They usually fi nd it boring. But robots don’t mind it a bit! The study made a prediction: Robots will take about 35 percent of jobs in the next 20 years. That might free humans to do jobs they really love.

But robots can’t do everything. They aren’t smart about relating to people. They don’t make good therapists, doctors, or nurses. Creative jobs don’t suit them well either. Robots don’t come up with original ideas. They can’t think on their feet—or wheels.

You might not mind a robot if your job . . .

Will a robot do your job? One website made a list. www.bbc.com/news/technology-34066941


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1. disgruntled a) dirty b) irritatedc) hungry

2. annoyancea) angerb) happinessc) fear

3. repetitivea) repeatingb) easyc) robotic

4. unpredictablea) obviousb) irregularc) certain

Robots might do amazing work, but they’rea long, long way from what humans want them to be. They have clunky arms. They stumble. They fall down stairs. They can’t perform sim-ple tasks that humans do every day without even thinking. And when our highly intelligent robots fl unk, there’s only one thing for us to do: laugh! For some reason, a robot fail is just way too funny!

In one of the Internet’s favorite robot fail vid-eos, a robot with clamp-like hands tries to fold towels. The bot picks a towel up. It twists the towel’s edges around for a while. Then it holds the towel in each hand for a few seconds. It lays the towel out on a table. It tries to fold it in half, but fails. Finally—after many extra steps—the bot gets it right. Then it starts the long process over again with a towel it has never seen.

In another beloved robot fail, a robot rolls over to a hot dog with a bottle of ketchup. The robot seems to be thinking hard. It gives its ketchup-dis-pensing wheels a good crank, then splat! It squirts ketchup in a steady stream, totally missing the hot dog. The ketchup spills over the edge of the plate. But the robot goes on spitting it out. Then a sec-ond ketchup robot speeds toward another hot dog on the table. This robot falls face-fi rst into the hotdog and sprays the

ketchup in exactly the wrong direction, all the way past the edge of the table! And guess what you hear in the background? That’s right: people laughing.

Robots just don’t have the same grace peo-ple do. They often don’t know how to respond to unpredictable situations. Their intelligence comes from programming. Every time a robot opens a door or walks along rough land without falling down, you

are seeing the fruits of very hard programming work. It makes you wonder at God’s creativity. He made people—towel-folding, ketch-up-squeezing people—just by speaking!

ketchoops!

Help. I’ve fallen and I can’t get . . . a ninety-

degree vertical alignment.

AP Photos, BBC graphic, YouTube screen images

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Did mom say halfsies or thirdsies?

fallen get

vertical

Did mom say halfsies

Robots might do amazing work, but they’re

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Astronauts Scott Kelly, Kjell Lindgren, and Kimiya Yui are making history . . . just by biting into a salad. This red romaine lettuce is the fi rst food ever grown and eaten in outer space!

But wait a second. Space isn’t exactly the best place to grow houseplants. Without gravity, water won’t necessarily reach a plant’s roots. Instead it might ball up in a corner of the pot. Space doesn’t have fresh air either. Plants need fresh air to breathe. Besides all that, the astronauts live on the International Space Station. The Station zooms around the sun every 90 minutes. God made plants to follow the cycle of sunlight on Earth. The sun-light in space would just confuse a lettuce plant. So how did the astronauts do it?

Engineers on Earth invented something called the Veggie plant growth system. It took

them years. Someone using the Veggie sys-tem would plant seeds in a pillow made

of clay. Then he or she would add water. The design of the clay pillow allows water

to fill it up with-

out floating away. To replace wind, fans blow. Artifi cial lights act like little, Earth-timed versions of the sun.

The astronauts grew the space salad over 33 days. When the lettuce ripened, it had large, healthy leaves. Each astronaut took a pie ce. Then they clicked their pieces together and said “cheers.” The verdict? The lettuce tastes way bet-ter than the usual, freeze-dried space food!

kids.wng.org/take-apart-smart

Chomp,chomp!

NASA astronaut Steve Swanson harvests the crop.

A crop of “Outredgeous”

red lettuce aboard the ISS

The International Space Station

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God set down the fi rst man, Adam, right in the middle of a garden. He had already given Adam all the tools he needed to make plant life grow. Many years have passed since then. But for the most part, God’s recipe for growth has stayed the same.

First, plants need soil. When a seed opens in the ground, it starts to grow roots. Without soil, those roots would have no anchor. As the plant got bigger and bigger, it would probably fall down.

Second, plants need nutrients. Soil holds plant-food like nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and calcium. The plant’s roots suck up those nutrients

from soil kind of like milk through a straw.Third, plants need sunlight, carbon dioxide,

and water. These things help the plant perform a process called photosynthesis. The part of a p lant called chlorophyll (the part that makes the plant green) grabs sunlight. The plant gathers carbon dioxide from the air. It gets water from the air and soil. In photosynthesis, the plant changes these ingredients into its food.

Last, plants need space, and we don’t mean the kind the astronauts are fl ying through! Like peo-ple, plants need plenty of room to live and grow.

Space photos: NASA, AP Photos

Enough to Grow On

God designed plants to need certain things. Can all those

things be supplied in a green-house? Yes. On Mars? Maybe.

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God didn’t just give us all the tools we needto grow plants. He gave us something else too: inventiveness. As long as we make sure plants have what they need to survive, we can use our heads to make them grow in the wildest and wackiest ways!

Imagine a garden like this. Rows and rows of plastic pipes lie flat on tables. The pipes have small holes in them. A single plant pokes out of each hole. A mineral solution (water plus nutri-ents like phosphorus, nitrogen, and others) flows through the pipes, feeding the plants. This kind of gardening is called hydroponics. That word com-bines two old, Greek words: hydro (water) and ponos (labor). It means what it says: The water does the work.

You might notice that one of God’s tools for growth is missing: soil. Gardeners use other things to make up for that. Sometimes they add substances like shale to support the plant’s roots. The plants’ nutrition comes mostly from their wa-ter. That means these plants don’t need soil at all.

Hydroponics comes in handy in cities or in places without good soil (like outer space!). Hydroponic gardens can grow indoors. In fact, you can plant your own using a few glass bottles with corks, some water, plants, and plant food. Your garden should thrive all winter long, soil-free.

People don’t just grow plants in wild ways, though. They also grow them in wild places. For the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012,

Grass grows on the floor of England’s York Minister Cathedral in 2012.

Goofy Gardening

workers covered the whole floor of England’s York Minister Cathedral with growing grass. Priests had to keep mowing the church floor! Others have learned to plant grass on their cars. Some even design clothes made out of grass. As the grass grows, the garments keep changing shape. It has also become popular to grow veg-etables upside-down. Upside-down tomatoes save ground space, have better protection from pests, and mean less weeding for the gardener. People have been planting goofy gardens for years. No wonder veggies have made it all the way to space!

A pop artist shows o� his suit of real growing grass in 1996.

Basil plants are grown in

plastic pipes at a hydroponics

farm in Nevada.

A vertical garden thrives at the 2010

World Expo in Shanghai, China.


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Quiz1. cycle

■ a) pattern■ b) heat■ c) brightness

2. anchor■ a) ship-part■ b) fastener ■ c) nourishment

3. inventiveness ■ a) math■ b) creativity ■ c) schooling

4. transportation ■ a) way to grow

food■ b) way to use

sunlight ■ c) way to get

places


Three, two, one . . . BOOM!

AP Photo

Answers page 32

To a bug, the squirting cucumber might look something like a rigged explosive. When its hairy fruits mature, they detach from the plant’s stem. Then the fruits start to blow. Brown seeds start fl ying everywhere. Some travel as far as 20 feet!

The squirting cucumber comes from the Mediterra-nean and can be deadly if eaten. It belongs to a class of plants whose seeds travel when their seedpods explode. It’s almost like these kinds of seeds—seeds of squirting cucumbers, violets, forget-me-nots, and other plants—travel by rocket ship. God designed nature to give plants what they need to grow. He also gave them transportation so they can get

to the places where they will grow best. Seeds are designed to travel in fi ve different

ways. Some explode. Others, such as dandelion seeds, fl oat away on the breeze. Burdocks

and other spiky seeds hitchhike by clinging to the fur of animals. Seeds

of fruit and nuts travel miles away when birds or other animals eat

them then release them in their droppings. Lotus and water lily seeds fall into water and fl oat away toward the places they will eventually grow.

Water, animals, wind, and seedpods are all doing work for God. He designed them to. Have you ever taken an apple on a picnic? Did you leave a core and seeds behind? If so,

you are a seed spreader too!

Three, two, one . . . BOOM! . . . BOOM!

Exploding cucumber

Dandelion

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AP Photos, Lolita: Seaquarium, Graphic: R Bishopkids.wng.org/critter-fi le

Lolita jumps high into the air. Then, crash! She dives back into her tank. Waves of water spray toward a spellbound audience. Lolita the killer whale has lived in this tank for 45 years and performed shows. Is it time for Lolita to retire?

Many people think so. And it’s not just be-cause Lolita is getting old. When killer whales live in the open sea, they have miles and miles of space in which to move. They dive hun-dreds of feet deep every day. But Lolita lives at the Miami Seaquarium. The narrowest parts

of Lolita’s tank measure only 35 feet wide. The deepest parts

only go 20 feet down. Some people call it

a “whale bathtub.” The mayor

of Miami Beach and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

(PETA) consider the tank far too small. It’s time, many say, for Lolita to be free. They want to re-lease Lolita into a cove in the sea. The project will take a lot of work. Workers plan to net the cove off. That may protect Lolita from sea dangers she isn’t used to. Trainers will have to teach Lolita to catch live fi sh again.

The retirement plan will cost lots of mon-ey. What if the project doesn’t work? What if Lolita can’t get used to sea life again? For now, Lolita is staying in the tank. Will her supporters win the battle?

Whale Retirement Home?

Kids join the protest against Seaquarium’s treatment of its killer whale, Lolita.

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As a baby whale, Lolita had another name: Tokitae. She and her pod—or whale family—lived along the coast of Washington State.

At four years old, Tokitae was busy learning to catch fish. She also studied her pod’s high-pitched calls. Sometimes she played with other young whales. But like other whales in her pod, she spent most of the time with her mother.

On August 8, 1970, something disturbed the pod’s peaceful waters. Speedboats sliced through the waves. Airplanes hovered overhead. Explosions went off. Sixty to 80 of the whales were frightened into a cove. Whale herders trapped them there with a three-acre net. The herders want-ed to catch baby whales. They planned to sell them to aquariums and parks.

During the capture, Tokitae’s mother cried out. Tokitae had been taken. Would the two ever see each other again?

The whale herders took seven whales captive that day. One adult whale and four baby whales died. The whale herders didn’t want anyone to find out about the whale deaths. So they sunk the whale bodies to the bottom of the water.

Tokitae was sold to the Miami Seaquarium. She moved into her new tank, one of the smallest whale enclosures in the world. But Tokitae’s new owners didn’t like her name. They thought she needed a name that made her sound like a star. So they renamed her Lolita. Now she is 49 years old. Her wild orca family has become an endan-gered species. Of all the whales captured with her, Lolita is the only one living today.80 feet water depth 20 feet

65 feet

Seaquarium medical pool

water depth 12 feet

water depth 12 feet

water depth 12 feet

Captured!A female orca leaps in the open water (left), and Lolita leaps during a show in her Seaquarium tank.

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Lolita isn’t the only whale with a story aboutmoving from the wild to an aquarium. The same thing happened to a whale named Corky. Corky came from the waters of Canada. She was cap-tured just a year before Lolita.

Learn more about orcas at kids.wng

.org

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er adjusts a fl ipper to an orca skeleton in Germ

any.With the passing of time, people have learned

something. Capturing whales puts the animals in serious danger. Some aquariums like Seaworld have decided to get whales another way. They breed them. That way, whale babies are born in the aquarium. They never live in the ocean at all.

Corky’s fi rst calf wasn’t born in the ocean. He was born in a tank. No other whale had been born in captivity before. Sadly, the calf lived for only 16 days. Over the years, Corky has had six other calves. None of them survived long after birth either. Why? Many believe it’s because aquariums are not healthy places for whales to live.

But many whales have survived birth in captiv-ity. Some may even have thrived living in tanks. Workers at Seaworld, the park where Corky lives, haven’t captured a killer whale from the wild in 35 years. They claim to keep baby whales with their mothers. They also say they give the whales exercise—in body and mind.

Not everyone believes Seaworld’s claims. And even if they are true, Seaworld’s opponents wish whales could just stay in the ocean. They ask, isn’t that better than living in a tank?

How’d They Get There?

An orca swims with its three-week-old baby at Marineland in Antibes, France.

A mother and baby Orca swim near the coast of Washington.


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25November/December 2015 • WORLDkidsAP Photos answers on page 32

1. Why do some people want Lolita to retire?

a) She is too dangerous to live at the Seaquarium.

b) She can’t catch live fish. c) Her tank is too small. d) She costs too much to keep at the

Seaquarium.

2. Why was Lolita captured?a) She depended too much on her

mother.b) She swam too far from the pod.c) Herders wanted to save her species.d) Herders wanted her for money.

3. Where do parks like Seaworld get their whales today?

a) They breed them.b) They catch them in the ocean.c) They no longer have whales. d) They get them from Canada.

4. What job did God give us?a) to learn whale languageb) to capture whalesc) to swim with whalesd) to take care of creation

5. God designed people to have compassion on His creatures. What are some ways people can do that for whales?

God gave people an important job. We get totake care of creation—trees, air, cats, dogs, fish, all of it! What a whale of a task! Lolita is part of God’s creation. How can people take good care of whales like her?

That’s a good question, but it’s not an easy one to answer. On one hand, we don’t want to be cruel by capturing and putting animals in danger for no rea-son. Catching Lolita’s family in nets doesn’t sound like “taking care of creation.” It doesn’t sound kind to keep Lolita in a tiny tank either. On the other hand, sometimes we can help animals by taking them out of their natural environment. We can give them good veterinary care if they are sick. Keeping whales allows people to study them. It also lets people see and enjoy what God has made.

A man-made whale enclosure will never work

as well for whales as the ocean God made. He is the expert builder. He knows exactly what His creatures need. But how can you really be sure whether a whale is happy? Whales in the ocean swim in long, straight lines. Whales in captivity don’t have space to do that. Instead they swim in small circles over and over. But do those things really mean that captive whales are unhappy? Some say yes. Others say no.

People are not made to worship animals. They do not need to serve them. But they do need to have compassion on them. God loves His creation, and we can too. Just look at Lolita! What’s not to love? But remember this: The only reason we can look at Lolita at all is because she lives at the Seaquarium.

Quiz

Both Sides

A female orca breaches while swimming in Puget Sound, Washington.

Luna, a lonely orca, visits a dog near docks of Gold River, British Columbia in 2003.


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AP Photos / M. Spencer Greenkids.wng.org/time-machine

Scholar Nicholas Reeves has a hunch thatmight make history . . . or not. He thinks the ancient crypt of Queen Nefertiti might be stowed in a familiar spot: behind King Tut’s famous tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

Mr. Reeves’ theory developed while he stared at images of the inside of King Tut’s tomb. For months and months, he gazed at the pictures. Should he believe his eyes? To him, it looked like some-thing hid behind the painted plaster. He saw two secret doorways.

King Tut has a nickname: “the boy king.” He began to rule Egypt when he was just nine years old. But he died at the age of 19. His mum-mifi ed body was placed in a tomb 3,300 years ago. But in many ways, Tut’s tomb doesn’t look like the ones usually built for pharaohs. The tomb has an unusually small fi rst room. Some other rooms seem to be missing.

Mr. Reeves believes Tut’s tomb was really built for the Egyptian

queen, Nefertiti. He believes the queen’s mummy may

rest just beyond the secret doors. King Tut

died suddenly at a young age. The Egyptians might have been in a hurry

to bury him. Why not in

an outer room of Nefertiti’s tomb? We don’t know much about Queen Nefertiti.

But we do know that she ruled Egypt during the 14th century B.C. Her name means “a beauti-ful woman has come.” Nefertiti was married to Pharaoh Akhenaten. Scholars have searched for Nefertiti’s burial place for centuries. Has Mr. Reeves found the clue they have waited for?

Some scholars fi nd Mr. Reeve’s theory far-fetched. Even if there are secret doors, they ask, why should we assume the tomb belongs to the queen? But Egyptian experts may give Mr. Reeves a chance to test his theory. It’s just too juicy to pass up!

This bust of Queen Nefertitiwas discovered 103 years ago.

Nefertiti, Are You There?

Experts and workers look at the tomb of King Tut inside the burial chamber. Is there a hidden door to the

tomb of Queen Nefertiti right behind them (arrow)?

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Eyeshadow? Check. Wig made of human hair?Check. Huge golden necklace? Check.

Each morning, a crowd of servants made sure their pharaoh was decked out for a day’s work. They washed him and cut his hair. They applied his wig and dressed him in a linen kilt. These servants had long titles like “Chief of the Scented Oils and Pastes for Rubbing His Majesty’s Body.” Talk about living like a king!

In the middle of the day, the pharaoh ate a meal with his wives and their children. Sometimes he played board games with his sons, or even took them to work with him. They may have gotten to watch him make laws, approve building projects, discuss military plans, and receive visitors. Visitors to the great Pharaoh didn’t just bow down to him. They laid face-fi rst on the fl oor!

Meanwhile, Egypt’s queens had other business to take care of. Some of these women lived with their children in mud brick buildings that faced an open courtyard. They were responsible to care for the palace. They also had to give the Pharaoh as many children as possible. In ancient Egypt, peo-ple usually had short life spans. Extra sons could replace those who died. The head queen also had to be ready to rule Egypt in case her husband died

hidden storage room?hidden doors?

Tut’s sarcophagus

Queen Nefertiti’s tomb?

A carved stone slab shows Pharaoh Akhenaten, his queen, Nefertiti, and their children worshipping the sun.

before her son was old enough to act as king.Some Egyptian women rose to positions of

great authority. Hatshepsut was one of the few women who became pharaoh. When she did, she started to dress like a male pharaoh . . . fake beard and all! Some even wonder if Nefertiti became a pharaoh too. Could the bearded images in Tut’s tomb actually be paintings of her?

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Ni l e River

EGYPT

Valley of the Kings

Mediterranean Sea

RedSea

Ni l e River

EGYPT

Valley of ofthe Kings Kings

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On a hot day in November of 1922, a boystarted to dig in the sand with a stick. In Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, the temperature usually measures at least 90 degrees—even in winter. The boy was part of the long, blistering mission to fi nd King Tut’s tomb. He was just a water fetcher. But before he knew it, his digging stick had struck something. It had uncovered a stone step leading to Tut’s tomb.

The boy called to Howard Carter, who stood nearby. Mr. Carter was a British archeologist. Twenty-two days later, Mr. Carter had dug far enough to enter the tomb. His candle fl ame fl ick-ered in the hot air. The air had rested in the sealed rooms for thousands of years!

Mr. Carter’s eyes adjusted to the darkness. He saw strange carved animals and statues. Everything glinted gold. Mr. Carter was too surprised to speak. Behind him stood a rich man named Lord Carnarvon. He had paid for the expedition. “Can you see anything?” asked Lord Carnarvon.

Mr. Carter fi nally found his voice. “Yes,” he answered. “Wonderful things!”

As a child, Howard Carter was oft en sick and had to be homeschooled. He lived in Great Britain. His father, an artist, painted a portrait of a famous expert on Egypt. The painting sparked Howard’s curiosity. At the age of 17, he traveled

to Egypt. There he drew copies of what archeologists found.

King Tut’s tomb was fi lled with treasures. It even held toys from the king’s boyhood. Its discovery changed how people understood the history of the ancient world. No one had ever found a tomb so well-kept. Soon, Mr. Carter’s love for ancient Egypt spread all over the world!

AP Photos

Howard Carter examines King Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus.

Workers carry an ancient object from the entrance to Tut’s tomb.

The entrance to King Tut’s tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings

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Mediterranean Sea

RedSea

In the late 18th century,Napoleon hoped his army could take over Egypt for France. Instead, his army dug up a big, gray rock. But it wasn’t just any rock. It was the Rosetta Stone.

Without the Rosetta Stone, we would understand very lit-tle about ancient Egypt today. The stone gets its name from the town of Rosetta. It was built into an old wall there. Napoleon’s army found the stone while tearing the wall down. Its surface shows a carved message. But the message on the stone isn’t the important part. The stone matters because of the languages it is written in.

Egyptian priests carved the stone in 196 B.C. Back then, Egyptians wrote in three different languages. Priests wrote in hiero-glyphics. Those are the funny picture-letters you probably think of when you imagine ancient Egypt. Egyptian rulers wrote in Greek. Most other people wrote in a script called demotic. The stone was designed so that everyone in Egypt could read it.

As years passed, more and more people forgot how to read hieroglyphics. By the time the stone was found, no one knew how. Scholars puzzled over the stone. In 1822, French scholar Jean-François Champollion

cracked the code. He used the demotic and Greek let-ters to make sense of hiero-glyphics. Suddenly, schol-ars could read thousands of years’ worth of written

Egyptian history. Egyptians seemed to want

to keep their culture alive. They embalmed the bodies of their dead carefully. They buried them with their earthly treasure. But just think of this. We came close to never knowing much about Egypt’s culture at all!

And the dust returns to the Earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

— Ecclesiastes 12:7

Answers p. 32

Rosetta Stone

1. far-fetched a) distant b) unbelievable c) withdrawn

2. authoritya) powerb) servicec) humility

3. blisteringa) harmful b) infected c) very hot

4. embalmed a) mummifi edb) buriedc) frozen

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Water on Mars?In September, NASA made an announcement: There is water on Mars! But did the Mars rover really find water? Not exactly. It took pictures. Those pictures give evidence of water. But no actual liquid was found. Why is NASA saying it found water then? The pictures show

streaks on the surface of Mars during certain seasons. Scientists think these streaks are probably liquid salt water.

And there is a handy device on the rover. It uses reflected light to measure the chemical makeup of molecules on Mars.

The device says that some molecules have had liquid water inside. So is there liquid water on Mars? The evidence suggests the answer is yes.

But no one has actually seen it.

Dog’s Best FriendWhen Tillie’s best doggie friend Phoebe ran away through an open front door, Tillie followed. Owner B.J. Duft says Tillie would never run away on her own. The large Irish setter and spaniel mix always stuck with her little basset hound buddy. They were missing for a week. A homeowner noticed Tillie. Tillie was coming near his property, then running back down a trail behind his house. The man called a pet rescue to come help him. They found Phoebe stuck a cistern. Tillie was standing guard above her, protecting her friend. Mr. Duft says he’s ordering a GPS collar for Phoebe. Now she won’t get lost again!

MLB’s First Female CoachThe Oakland Athletics (A’s) didn’t balk at the idea of trying a new

coach in the club’s lineup—even when the coach was a woman. Baseball fans love statistics and records. So A’s fans may be proud that their team hired the first female coach in Major League history. Justine Siegal has worked as a scout and a college baseball coach before. She has a Ph.D. in sports and exercise psychology. And she loves baseball. She will be coaching batting practice at the club’s spring-training facility. Her title is

“guest instructor.” That means the job isn’t permanent—at least not yet. If the A’s didn’t make an error, though, it’s possible Ms.

Siegal could find herself safe at a new career home.

YO!, AP Photos, American Museum of Natural History, S. Galokale


kids.wng.org

Tillie watches over Phoebe.

Justine Siegal (right) jokes

with Oakland A’s outfielder Coco Crisp.

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The YO! Company website displays prototype homes.


The Art of ServiceBarry Bauman cleans and fixes paintings. Museums ask for his help.

The Illinois resident spends three to four months on each painting. He works

10 hours every day. He removes dirt with a cotton swab. He fixes torn canvas. He uses paint to

retouch spots that have peeled away. The paintings will look like new. Now people can enjoy the art for many decades

to come. It costs lots of money to keep art from deteriorating. Museums usually have small budgets. That means they don’t have a lot of money to spend on keeping the paintings in good shape. Mr. Bauman loves art. He wants others to love it too. So he wanted to help. That’s why he does his work for free. In the last 11 years, he has fixed more than 1,500 paintings. And he didn’t get paid even once.

Rare Bird’s First PhotoThe blue and yellow bird in the photo looks like a stu�ed toy.

But it’s real. Until now, no scientist had even seen the male mustached

kingfisher up close. Chris Filardi was with a team from

the American Museum of Natural History. They were researching on the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Dr. Filardi heard the call of the mustached kingfisher. Then it flew right

across his path. There was no time for a photo—it was gone. But a few

days later, his team captured a male. Now they have the pictures to prove it!

Transform Your HouseCould you live in a really tiny house? Suppose your house was just one room. But touch a button and the kitchen disappears. Push another button, and your bedroom slowly drops from the ceiling. You’ll just click to put it away the next morning. The new twist in tiny houses is the “Transformer House.” The YO! Company figured out how to turn one room into five di�erent ones. Space above the ceiling and under the floor opens and closes. Pulleys and ropes move doors, couches, and beds. Furniture gets stored away until it is needed. The Transformer House is being tested in big cities. It’s a new way to make much use of little space.

Barry Bauman in his studio

cleans a work by famous painter George Catlin.


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Don’t worry. A robot is not going to steal your job—at least not this one. Imagine that the top row robots are drawn on see-through tracing paper. Which robot from the top row will combine with a robot in the second row to make the full robot in the bottom row? An example is done for you.

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Telescope p6-9: 1) b, 2) c, 3) d, 4) c, 5) Answers will vary, but may include: God created the universe by speaking. But scientists are asking where it came from. Migrants p10-13: 1) d, 2) b, 3) c, 4) d, 5) Answers will vary, but may include: Christians should think of migrants and refugees as people made in the image of God, and show hospitality. But they should also think about how the migration movement will a�ect the people who live in Europe. Robots p14-17: 1) b, 2) a, 3) a, 4) b. Plants in Space p18-21: 1) a, 2) b, 3) b, 4) c. Orcas p22-25: 1) c, 2) d, 3) a, 4) d, 5) People can give animals good veterinary care, make sure animals have plenty of room, and study how to care for them well. They can also leave them in their own environment, the place God designed for them. Nefertiti p26-29: 1) b, 2) a, 3) c, 4) a.

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