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Ashton Robinson Cook - Meteorologist

Ashton Robinson Cook always knows when a tornado, hurricane, or winter storm is coming. It’s his job to know. As a meteorologist, he analyzes weather data to figure out where and when storms are likely to hit. Typical weather forecasting tools can look only up to a week ahead. But Cook has developed software called WeatherDeep that can make predictions up to two months in advance. Cook was the first African American man to earn a PhD in meteorology at the University of Oklahoma and also earned the 2017 American Association of State Climatologists (AASC) Dissertation Award for his research on tornadoes.

5 Totally Terrible Technology Predictions

Can you do better? What tech do you expect in 2050?

Can Cats Predict Earthquakes?

Are animals’ powers to foretell natural disasters fact or folklore?

THE FUN ZONE : Sundial

TAKE THIS SUNDIAL, or shadow clock, outside on a sunny day. It’s not as exact as a watch, but it’s more fun!

Letters from Leo

CHILDREN STORIES

Meltdown at the Doughnut Factory

CHILDREN STORIES

OPHELIA'S LAST WORD - EXTREME JELLYBEAN CUISINE

IT TAKES A long time to make jellybeans! But whipping up this delicious jellybean bark won’t take you a whole week.

Telling Time

Art by Kelly Canby

Secret Message Scytales

HISTORY COMICS

ONE WEEK WONDER

WOULD YOU WAIT a week to eat a jellybean?

Golden Crested Crane

GRANDMOTHER STORIES

Doodlebug & Dandelion - The Jellybean Machine

“Where’s Dandelion?”

Arty Crafty Heart Strings

Here's what we will learn today. We call them Heart Strings, and you can use them for Valentine's decor, a cute kids' necklace, or even a scrapbook or card decoration.

The Farmer And The Well

A farmer looking for a source of water for his farm bought a well from his neighbour. The neighbour was cunning, though, and refused to let the farmer take water from the well.

Its Different!

Train Platform Schools, India

The Boasting Traveler

A man came back from a tour and boasted about his adventurous journeys.

World Bee Day! 20 MAY

Dear Friends, Bees are so important to the health of our planet that they have their own special day. Yes, World Bee Day takes place on 20 May each year.

The Other Side Of The Wall

A young woman inherited a beautiful garden from her grandmother.

Zoo Boo! - Electric Eel

The electric eel gets its name from its shocking abilities!

THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES

Hunched over your paper, you try to concentrate. This is the worst kind of assignment.

LEARNING TO HEAR

With cochlear implants

Q&A

Q Where do personal preferences come from? For example, I like hard rock music. Why am I that social outcast who runs screaming into the bathroom at school dances when everyone else is singing along? —Kate, age 13, Ohio

Trevor Cox – Acoustic engineer and Stonehenge researcher

Trevor Cox is a professor of acoustic engineering at the University of Salford in the United Kingdom. He engineers systems to make sound better. And he studies how the structures we build affect the sounds we make inside them.

How Fast Is Sound?

An experiment

Adolphe Sax – How To Invent An Instrument

The story of the saxophone

The Sounds Of Star Wars

This is the sound design activity you’re looking for.

Courtney Craven – Gamer and disability activist

Craven does presentations worldwide to assist game developers, teachers, writers, and others in making text and images available to people with any disability.

Deaf Friends

Want to communicate better with kids with hearing loss? Try these tips.

Can You Please Lower Your Voice?

The experience of auditory sensitivity

SNOT-COPTER: Drone at Work

THE BOAT IS on the move. It speeds over icy waters toward a humpback whale.