Haven't we been here before...again?...
...so:
Heads up! It's time to keelhaul your consciousness. Here he is, the matador of the mind, the deacon of doodles, the Captain & Tennille of all that is real, the one, the only, the Beakman!
You beam 'em, I'll steam 'em, let's fox trot!
Yes, it's Beakman again. But you might be feeling a bit of Deja Vu today. That's 'cuz this was the same episode that came up in my first Beak-synopsis of this 500-word run! Yes, we've come full-circle (and that also means there were 53 Saturdays this year). Which means you get a little update of Beakman today! I will tell you that this will be the only Beakman I'm doing this full import-update for. I will tell you when each of my previous Beak-synopses are updated (at least the ones I've done), and I'll make one for the ones I've missed, but this will be the only two for. Two reasons: One, this one needs to be smushed into one so I can easily export it should I get a website back up and running, and two, it lets me hit 500 words faster. And that will not be a necessary consideration in the new year. Why? Tune in tomorrow to find out!
What's goin' on in this one? Well, Moocows lead to shots, water leads to sticky balls, and rubbing leads to heat.
Anyhoo...this is episode 15 of Beakman's World. And, that's all that needs to be said, really. So let's break in, like the very first time!
Vaccinations: James Fox of Odessa, Texas wants to know why you have to get a shot when you aren't even sick. Yeah, no one likes that. But it's necessary to get those shots to keep you from getting sick It's called a Vaccination...and, to prove it, let's hear from the horse's mouth (or the cow's udder?) from the expert on the subject, the inventor of the smallpox vaccine, Dr. Edward Jenner (who did not win the decathlon in the '76 Olympics). Dr. Jenner was seriously concerned with smallpox, a disease that doesn't exist today outside of laboratory today, but killed thousands of people back in Jenner's time. Everyone got it...except for girls who milked cows, aka Milkmaids. Jenner found they got a much milder disease called cowpox, which, quite naturally, mooooooves from cows to humans. So he experimented by intentionally giving a kid cowpox, and then intentionally giving the kid smallpox (sacrifices for science, indeed!) And the kid didn't get the dread disease! Et viola, the first vaccine! That's where we get the word...Vaccinus in latin means...of cows!
How do vaccines work, you may ask? Well, they only work with viruses. Viruses are nasty little bugs that make things sick. Let's use this block for a virus and one of Ray's humungous cells for a cell. The virus attaches itself to a cell, then invades it, multiplies and destroys it. End result: You get sick. BUT! Your body has a defense against this: Antibodies. They're things your white blood cells make to combat deadly viruses. However, sometimes your body isn't fast enough. And the solution is...a vaccine! Made from weak or dead viruses, the vaccine tricks your body into making antibodies to combat them. And the antibodies stay in the body, so that when the real thing comes around, you don't get sick. So, take the pain from the needle...it just might save you a sick day from school (and we all know you want that, right?)
Beakmania!: You can poke someone's eye out with that! (Wham!) Question: How much do elephants eat? Answer: African elephants can eat up to 800 pounds of food a day! Question: Do plants make noise? Answer: When they get thirsty, they can emit a high-pitched sound that humans can't hear. Fast Fact: The water you drink can be as much as 3 BILLION (with a B) years old! It's gone that long through the water cycle...y'know, evaporation, condensation, rain, puddles, and back again? Question: What's everyone chanting for? Answer: THE BEAKMAN CHALLENGE! Today, Beakman sez he can hold a ball in an upside-down funnel without touching it! Impossible, you say? Well, let's stick this hose to the funnel and turn on the water! ...Wow, he did it! How, you may ask? Well, the water rushing out from the hose is going out really fast. There's less pressure on that side and more pressure pushing the ball up. This makes the ball stay in the funnel. When Beak turns off the water, gravity does its rightful job and the ball falls to the ground.
Friction: Ariel Einstein (great name!) from Birmingham, Michigan asks...why do my hands get hot when I rub 'em together? Well, much like Josie and Lester, the answer is...Friction! "You rub me da wrong way, you know dat, Josie?" "Yeah, well, remind me to do that one day with a power sander!" Anyway...Friction is a force that resists motion. Without friction, a bowling ball would roll all day long until it hit something that made it stop (and don't even think about Pete Weber putting any curve on the ball...) Friction makes things slow down and stop. Without it, even a Frisbee would go on forever! But what is a Frisbee rubbing against? Air! The molecules in the air are enough to slow the flyin' disk down and let gravity do the rest. Friction is also the force that makes things wear out, like the soles of your shoes, and parts of an engine. How to combat this? Lubricants! Like oil and grease. They reduce the friction and let the engine parts move. Without it, the parts rub against each other, get very hot, and melt into a single thing that don't move too good. The upside to friction? Without it, you can't walk! Think about a sheet of ice and how difficult it is to walk on that. That's how you'd look if there was no friction.
It's time to break out the old 45 (it's that thing made of vinyl in your parents' closet?). Thanks to friction, it doesn't move across a table very well. You could oil the table, but that'd be messy. How about, instead of oil, we use air? PENCIL ALERT! You will need: 1. A vinyl record (ask your parents for one they don't listen to anymore, which, quite likely, means any of them...) 2. A spool of thread (just the spool, no thread needed) 3. Some glue 4. A balloon. STEP 1: Glue the spool to the record, making sure the hole in the spool and the hole in the record line up. STEP 2: Blow up your balloon. STEP 3: Carefully pinching the balloon so that no air comes out until you're ready, fit the end of the balloon over the spool. STEP 4: Let go of the balloon and...Zaloom! You've got yourself a hovercraft! The air escapes from the balloon to the only place it can...under the record. This creates a cushion of air that resists friction!
Say, would you happen to know where you can hit a golf ball the farthest? No? Well, Beakman does! The best place we've tried so far is...the moon! There's no air up there, so there's not much friction. And the moon, of course, has less gravity. So that ball goes and goes and goes! And so do we until next week!
And that's the one, the only, the Beakman for this week. And tomorrow, we put an end to this year with a pretty bow on top!
Heads up! It's time to keelhaul your consciousness. Here he is, the matador of the mind, the deacon of doodles, the Captain & Tennille of all that is real, the one, the only, the Beakman!
You beam 'em, I'll steam 'em, let's fox trot!
Yes, it's Beakman again. But you might be feeling a bit of Deja Vu today. That's 'cuz this was the same episode that came up in my first Beak-synopsis of this 500-word run! Yes, we've come full-circle (and that also means there were 53 Saturdays this year). Which means you get a little update of Beakman today! I will tell you that this will be the only Beakman I'm doing this full import-update for. I will tell you when each of my previous Beak-synopses are updated (at least the ones I've done), and I'll make one for the ones I've missed, but this will be the only two for. Two reasons: One, this one needs to be smushed into one so I can easily export it should I get a website back up and running, and two, it lets me hit 500 words faster. And that will not be a necessary consideration in the new year. Why? Tune in tomorrow to find out!
What's goin' on in this one? Well, Moocows lead to shots, water leads to sticky balls, and rubbing leads to heat.
Anyhoo...this is episode 15 of Beakman's World. And, that's all that needs to be said, really. So let's break in, like the very first time!
Vaccinations: James Fox of Odessa, Texas wants to know why you have to get a shot when you aren't even sick. Yeah, no one likes that. But it's necessary to get those shots to keep you from getting sick It's called a Vaccination...and, to prove it, let's hear from the horse's mouth (or the cow's udder?) from the expert on the subject, the inventor of the smallpox vaccine, Dr. Edward Jenner (who did not win the decathlon in the '76 Olympics). Dr. Jenner was seriously concerned with smallpox, a disease that doesn't exist today outside of laboratory today, but killed thousands of people back in Jenner's time. Everyone got it...except for girls who milked cows, aka Milkmaids. Jenner found they got a much milder disease called cowpox, which, quite naturally, mooooooves from cows to humans. So he experimented by intentionally giving a kid cowpox, and then intentionally giving the kid smallpox (sacrifices for science, indeed!) And the kid didn't get the dread disease! Et viola, the first vaccine! That's where we get the word...Vaccinus in latin means...of cows!
How do vaccines work, you may ask? Well, they only work with viruses. Viruses are nasty little bugs that make things sick. Let's use this block for a virus and one of Ray's humungous cells for a cell. The virus attaches itself to a cell, then invades it, multiplies and destroys it. End result: You get sick. BUT! Your body has a defense against this: Antibodies. They're things your white blood cells make to combat deadly viruses. However, sometimes your body isn't fast enough. And the solution is...a vaccine! Made from weak or dead viruses, the vaccine tricks your body into making antibodies to combat them. And the antibodies stay in the body, so that when the real thing comes around, you don't get sick. So, take the pain from the needle...it just might save you a sick day from school (and we all know you want that, right?)
Beakmania!: You can poke someone's eye out with that! (Wham!) Question: How much do elephants eat? Answer: African elephants can eat up to 800 pounds of food a day! Question: Do plants make noise? Answer: When they get thirsty, they can emit a high-pitched sound that humans can't hear. Fast Fact: The water you drink can be as much as 3 BILLION (with a B) years old! It's gone that long through the water cycle...y'know, evaporation, condensation, rain, puddles, and back again? Question: What's everyone chanting for? Answer: THE BEAKMAN CHALLENGE! Today, Beakman sez he can hold a ball in an upside-down funnel without touching it! Impossible, you say? Well, let's stick this hose to the funnel and turn on the water! ...Wow, he did it! How, you may ask? Well, the water rushing out from the hose is going out really fast. There's less pressure on that side and more pressure pushing the ball up. This makes the ball stay in the funnel. When Beak turns off the water, gravity does its rightful job and the ball falls to the ground.
Friction: Ariel Einstein (great name!) from Birmingham, Michigan asks...why do my hands get hot when I rub 'em together? Well, much like Josie and Lester, the answer is...Friction! "You rub me da wrong way, you know dat, Josie?" "Yeah, well, remind me to do that one day with a power sander!" Anyway...Friction is a force that resists motion. Without friction, a bowling ball would roll all day long until it hit something that made it stop (and don't even think about Pete Weber putting any curve on the ball...) Friction makes things slow down and stop. Without it, even a Frisbee would go on forever! But what is a Frisbee rubbing against? Air! The molecules in the air are enough to slow the flyin' disk down and let gravity do the rest. Friction is also the force that makes things wear out, like the soles of your shoes, and parts of an engine. How to combat this? Lubricants! Like oil and grease. They reduce the friction and let the engine parts move. Without it, the parts rub against each other, get very hot, and melt into a single thing that don't move too good. The upside to friction? Without it, you can't walk! Think about a sheet of ice and how difficult it is to walk on that. That's how you'd look if there was no friction.
It's time to break out the old 45 (it's that thing made of vinyl in your parents' closet?). Thanks to friction, it doesn't move across a table very well. You could oil the table, but that'd be messy. How about, instead of oil, we use air? PENCIL ALERT! You will need: 1. A vinyl record (ask your parents for one they don't listen to anymore, which, quite likely, means any of them...) 2. A spool of thread (just the spool, no thread needed) 3. Some glue 4. A balloon. STEP 1: Glue the spool to the record, making sure the hole in the spool and the hole in the record line up. STEP 2: Blow up your balloon. STEP 3: Carefully pinching the balloon so that no air comes out until you're ready, fit the end of the balloon over the spool. STEP 4: Let go of the balloon and...Zaloom! You've got yourself a hovercraft! The air escapes from the balloon to the only place it can...under the record. This creates a cushion of air that resists friction!
Say, would you happen to know where you can hit a golf ball the farthest? No? Well, Beakman does! The best place we've tried so far is...the moon! There's no air up there, so there's not much friction. And the moon, of course, has less gravity. So that ball goes and goes and goes! And so do we until next week!
And that's the one, the only, the Beakman for this week. And tomorrow, we put an end to this year with a pretty bow on top!