How fast can pigs run?
Cuatro pósteres—las preguntas incluyen: • ¿Cuántas lunas llenas habrá este año? • ¿Cuántos satélites orbitan la Tierra ahora? • ¿Cuántas estrellas puede dibujar en un minuto? • ¿Cuánto pesaría usted en la Luna? return to top Space • Building Houses. Build a rocket ship that you (or a favorite stuffed animal) can sit inside. • Call My Number. Play this game to launch an exploration of non-fiction books about stars, planets and space. • From Here to There. Explore distances on a map of the solar system: if a toothpick is the distance between the Earth and the Moon, how many toothpicks away is Venus? • Giant Museum. Visit Planet X, on which everything is five times longer and wider than it is here. Make a museum showing what you brought back from your trip. Is a dollar bill large enough to sit on? Is a pen on Planet X as tall as you are? How do you know? • Growing Plants. Explore nature on Earth by growing plants and tracking their growth over time. Extend the activity by investigating po
A well padded paunchy old porker would plumb refuse to enter himself in a running contest. If he could talk our language, he might ask a question of his own How fast can a two legged human run? He also might brag that some of his wild relatives can out¬run the fastest man. The farmer who keeps domesticated porkers is not interested in how fast the fat fellows can run. Far from it. He wants them to grow fat and well padded with tender meat. The heaviest pigs, of course, yield the most bacon and pork chops, the biggest roasts and the heaviest hams. They bring more money when times comes to take them to market. A well padded domestic pig may win a blue ribbon at the county fair, but he is in no shape to compete with the horses and the fleet footed greyhounds. In order to become a prize porker, he must stuff himself with all he can eat, take life easy and give up all ambition to exercise and develop speedy muscles. In bodily biology, mankind shares many features with nature’s children of t
