What Happens When a Pirate Captain Can't Sleep?

Captain Whitney Black McKee is a rowdy pirate!

After traveling the seven seas and fighting sea monsters, it's time to come back to homeport for a rest. But the Captain's sleep has gone all awry. She desperately closes her eyes, but cannot find sleep.

Sleepless. What's a rowdy captain to do? She sends her crew a'thievin for a simple lullaby. But the rowdy heart doesn't always know what

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A jumping spider is sent to the International Space Station to discover if she can hunt in microgravity.

How long does it take for science to find an answer to a problem? On January 25, 1862, naturalist Charles Darwin received a box of orchids. One flower, the Madagascar star orchid, fascinated him. It had an 11.5 inch nectary, the place where flowers make nectar, the sweet liquid that insects and birds eat. How, he wondered, did insects pollinate the orchid? After experiments, he made a prediction. There must be a giant moth with a 11.5 inch proboscis,...