Kevin Kurtz
Children's Author & Educator
Science = Awesomeness2
A blog by Kevin about the amazing science behind his children's books. New posts every two months or possibly two years, or whatever. Don't miss a post! To follow this blog and have updates delivered right to your inbox, click here.
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Can you make a battery that runs on microbes?
Do girl anglerfish drag their boyfriends around everywhere they go?
Why is the Moon covered with meteorite craters and the Earth is covered with like three of them?
Why do marmots like to be fat?
What does the biggest shark in the world eat?
Why are great blue heron feet so goofy looking?
Who is better at walking in salt marsh mud: great blue herons or children's authors?
How do we know how old a rock is?
What do you call that thing that hit the Earth and created the Chicxulub Crater?
What was the worst day the dinosaurs ever had?
Why were we unable to film a giant squid before the 21st Century?
Are there pros and cons to getting hypothermia?
Did high school kids solve a 140-year old scientific mystery?
Were there ever glow-in-the-dark Civil War soldiers?
Can a Clark’s nutcracker bury 100,000 seeds all over a mountain and find them six months later?
Why do male fiddler crabs have one big claw and one little claw?
Did we not notice the world’s biggest volcano until like three years ago?
How did the vampire squid get its name?