Boy's Quest articles from December 2005

Boy's Quest archives from December 2005

Neon artist.(Fred Elliott )
December 1, 2005... Fred Elliott took his neon-sign business and turned it into art. "Anyone can learn to do neon," Fred says. "It's very simple. After a week's training, you could open your own neon-sign business." But nobody would do it like he does. He is an...

Yum, yuck, perfect!
December 1, 2005... Can you tell the difference between spearmint and peppermint gum? Is your soda bubbly enough? Does each cookie really have 18, chocolate chips? Does fried octopus really taste like buttered popcorn? If experimenting, testing, and tasting add...

Trick your taste.(Science)
December 1, 2005... Do you know what an apple tastes like? Do you know what a raw potato tastes like? Have you ever tasted a potato that tastes like an apple? By tricking two of your senses, taste and smell, you can make a potato taste like an apple, or even...

Fred's world.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... My nephew, Brutow, has an unusual career. He works as a police dog, sniffing out bad guys. Do you know why his career is so unusual? Well, first, his job is unique because he's one of only 10 dogs that perform this job. It's unusual because in...

Music to his ears.(Bernie Krause, the naturalist who records sounds for research and pleasure)
December 1, 2005... What do you do when a silverback, mountain gorilla grabs you and hurls you into a clump of stinging nettle bushes? If you are Bernie Krause, you get up, brush yourself off, and continue tape recording gorillas and all the other, jungle sounds...

Dunking Jack!(COMPUTER QUEST)
December 1, 2005... How well do you know famous explorers? Jack needs you to answer 10 questions by spelling the explorers' names! The blanks show the number of letters to guess. To answer a question, press the letters you think are in the name. If you enter a...

Who?(Poem)
December 1, 2005... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Who builds the ships that sail the seas? Who studies stars and galaxies? Who plants the trees where nothing stood? I could. Who writes the books we love to read? Who races cars...

Building art.
December 1, 2005... In the city, towering skyscrapers crowd every block. Look up. What shapes do you see? Most buildings are rectangles. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's the job of an architect to design buildings. Many architects start with a box. Frank Gehry...

The Living Desert.
December 1, 2005... The moon goddess, a horse, and the rainbow serpent stand tall on the hilltop, watching the desert below. Created from red sandstone, these and nine other majestic sculptures guard Australia's Outback. These sculptures make up the Sculpture...

BC collecting.
December 1, 2005... You've heard about baseball card collections. But what about business card collections? BCs (business cards) are everywhere, from the doctor's office to your parent's desk at work. Some BCs are kind of boring. They're printed on white...

Stamp out wet gloves and mittens now!(WORKSHOP)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... It's no fun throwing a snowball or making a snowman with wet gloves or mittens! Trust me. If you threw your gloves in a pile yesterday afternoon after you were done having fun in the snow, they will probably be still wet. Of course, you might...

Jack's job.
December 1, 2005... On your way home from school, you see red fur, a canine face, and slender, black legs. A fox is standing next to the post office. How can you help the fox? If you call Urban Wildlife Rescue, Jack Murphy answers. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Celebrate the new year with Hoppin' John.(Chef's CORNER)
December 1, 2005... Who is "John?" And why is he hopping? No one seems to know how "Hoppin' John" originally got its name, but everyone seems to agree that it's a tasty way to welcome the new year. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Afro-Americans, French...

Pete Gray: one-armed, major leaguer.(Biography)
December 1, 2005... Imagine playing Major League Baseball! While many kids can imagine playing it, only a few will actually achieve it. Now, can you imagine making it to the major leagues if you had only one arm? I bet you will say, "That can't be done." Well,...

The boy mayor of Texas.
December 1, 2005... When Brian Zimmerman ran for town mayor, the election was held in his grandmother's grocery store. Thirty people voted, and Brian beat the other two candidates with 23 votes. He was eleven years old. Brian's town of Crabb, Texas had only...

Bennett beaver finds his career.
December 1, 2005... Bennett was a beaver who grew up knowing he was supposed to be an engineer. His mother said, "When you become an engineer..." His father told him stories of the rich and famous in engineering. The very air around him seemed to carry the...