Welcome to Kent District Library’s Stump the Librarian Podcast where your friendly neighborhood librarians put their research skills to the test answering questions from you, the listener! Join Jill and Liz every other Wenesday to learn new and exciting information. Think you have a question that can stump us? Visit www.kdl.org/stump to submit a question of your own!
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Welcome to Kent District Library’s Stump the Librarian Podcast where your friendly neighborhood librarians put their research skills to the test answering questions from you, the listener! Join Jill and Liz every other Wenesday to learn new and exciting information. Think you have a question that can stump us? Visit www.kdl.org/stump to submit a question of your own!
In this episode we answer the questions, “What is the one bone in the body that floats?” and “What is the Blue Glaucus and what does it eat?” We learn a fact of the day live from a Wyoming librarian and share a funny chapter book about a kid finding a heap of money. To submit your own question, go to KDL.org/Stump. We can’t wait to hear from you!
Jackie’s Fact of the Day: Amazing Facts- Olympics & Paralympics by Caroline Rowlands
https://kdl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S174C1128942
Liz’s Book Recommendation: Birdie’s Billions by Edith Cohn
https://kdl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S174C847068
Concerning floating bones:
https://www.britannica.com/science/neck-anatomy
"human origins." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 17 Jun. 2021. school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/human-origins/274982#332652-toc. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/hyoid-bone
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK525790/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/sesamoid-bone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyoid_bone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesamoid_bone
Concerning Blue Glaucus:
https://research.ebsco.com/c/t27gom/viewer/pdf/rdifodpjh5
https://tapro.sljol.info/articles/4386/files/submission/proof/4386-1-15623-1-10-20120603.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaucus_atlanticus
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/blog/inside-nature-featured-creature-blue-dragon/
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/nudibranchs-psychedelic-thieves-of-the-sea.html
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2022/september/hms-challenger-how-150-year-old-expedition-still-influences-scientific-discoveries-today.html
https://opistobranquis.info/en/guia/nudibranchia/cladobranchia/aeolidioidea/glaucus-atlanticus/#:~:text=Glaucus%20atlanticus%20Forster%2C%201777&text=Taxonomic%20source%3A%20World%20Register%20of,British%20naturalist%20Johann%20Reinhold%20Forster.
Stump the Librarian
Welcome to Kent District Library’s Stump the Librarian Podcast where your friendly neighborhood librarians put their research skills to the test answering questions from you, the listener! Join Jill and Liz every other Wenesday to learn new and exciting information. Think you have a question that can stump us? Visit www.kdl.org/stump to submit a question of your own!
