SONG!: "All We Need to Do" from Bill Nye

LYRICS

Watching groups of living things
Tryin’ to find their reasoning
Get the scope, and watch some more

Populations I have seen
Are made of groups of living things
And if you’re keepin’ score

They compete for food
They compete for homes
Populations all compete
As everybody knows

Populations
There are different populations
Competing to survive
Populations
And watching populations
We learn about life

The human race is growing fast
Other populations might not last
Some species are gone forever

Now we’ve got to watch what we do
Let other species live here too
We can all be here together

We compete for food
We compete for homes
Populations all compete
As everybody knows

Populations
There are different populations
Competing to survive
Populations
And watching populations
We learn about life

Science in the News

This week's issue of Scholastic News is packed full of science! First we learned about the Kepler Telescope, which is searching for Earth-like planets that might have liquid water. Why do scientists care that the water is in liquid form?

Check out these NASA videos about the Kepler mission (the first one is much shorter than the other)...





We also saw a picture of a deep-sea fish that seems alien to us because its so strange. You can actually see through its head! And it can too!-- because its eyes are on the inside. Its transparent (see-through) forehead acts like the canopy of a jet or the windshield of a car, protecting its tubular eyes. Pretty nuts!



Finally, last week we saw that the cover of the Washington Post had a picture of a new arrival on the front page... Here's some video of those precious little guys: