December 23, 2010 17:26:35
Researchers at the University of Sussex have discovered that cats use a special purr to control their owners and get attention and food. Unlike their regular purring, this sound has a "cry", with a similar frequency to a human baby's. The scientists said that cats have decoded a human ...
January 5, 2011 11:13:49
Frog Went A Courtin is an English folk song that dates back to 1548 and has been changed many times and performed by many artists including Tex Ritter, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. Here we use a 50 year old recording done by the American folk singing group The Brothers Four in 1961. which t...
September 30, 2008 20:46:44
"KANGAROO FARTS & CLIMATE CHANGE"
Did you know that stomach gas from farm animals makes one fourth of all the world's greenhouse gasses? All farm animals eat grass, hay, and seed and digesting all these plants creates a gas in animal stomachs called Methane. Cattle, sheep, chickens, pigs, and horses all "fart" Methane ...
February 14, 2009 16:12:07
One hot, summer day when I was six years old, my brother announced that we should make some money. I knew all about making paper airplanes and I could hammer a nail, but I was unfamiliar with the skills needed to make quarters, nickels and dimes. My brother, Tom, was the businessman...
November 28, 2010 20:29:07
Sketching with a pencil or charcoal is a very relaxing way to spend an afternoon. Here is Tim sketching a group of Snow Drop flowers set to the Celtic piano music of Michele McLaughlin . If you want to see more pencil sketches, just write the word "sketch" in the timtim search box. ...
September 30, 2008 20:56:11
"THE DANCE OF THE HONEY BEE - video"
When bees buzz, they talk to each other, right? Wrong! Bees buzz because their wings flap so fast. They talk by dancing - and what a dance it is! (Watch the vidoe) The special jitterbug-like dance of the honey bee was first noticed in 1944 by Austrian naturalist Karl von Frisch. Bee...
December 4, 2010 00:22:24
"The Rooms In Your House-Video"
A fun storybook video set to bluegrass music with Tim's voice-over for the text. Architecture for Beginners is a 2 minute introduction to the rooms of our homes, what they are, how we use them, and how they affect our daily lives.
November 21, 2010 20:04:29
Here is a one minute drawing tutorial set to some crazy barnyard sounds and guitar music by my friend Soren Kenner. I am sure you can do a better job than I did - why don't you give it a try on the timtim Coloring & Drawing Page . ©2010:timtim.com and Tim Newlin ...
August 29, 2010 11:43:44
"World's Tallest Animal - Video"
Giraffes are the world's tallest animal and they are only found in Africa. They never bathe, are powerful enough to kill a lion, and they are threatened by loss of territory and by hunters who want their tails for flyswatters and lucky charms. A mother Giraffe carries her baby for 1...
January 5, 2012 17:40:06
20 Million Send Valentines To Themselves
According to the U.S. Greeting Card Association. on February 14th, 20 million People in the USA will send Valentines & flowers to themselves. In some Muslim countries, hundreds of young couples will be arrested by religious police while authorities ban the sale of red roses and red heart-sha...
May 8, 2010 15:41:39
During the Cold War, Mother's Day was the one day of the year when a launched nuclear missile could have gone out of control. All commercial telephone satellites were overloaded with transatlantic Mother's Day calls, and the US military often used these satellites as back-up guidance systems for...
December 9, 2008 21:01:02
A 20 year old Chinese girl from Zhuhai in Guangdong province became partially deaf after a passionate kiss from her boyfriend. The girl was admitted to a hospital with complete loss of hearing in her left ear. The doctor who treated the girl explained his diagnosis. "The kiss reduced the pr...
March 23, 2010 01:12:40
Keep skunks and bankers at a distance. Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. Forgive your enemies; it messes up their heads. Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled. Meanness don't jes' happen overnight. &nb...
June 7, 2009 14:48:58
Alexander McCall Smith Interview: The No.1 Ladies Detective Writer
Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling British author of over 60 books, is on his way back to Botswana to write his next book. He was kind enough to answer a few questions for timtim about his characters and book covers and his thoughts on artwork, talent, and teaching. Alexander ...
May 29, 2011 12:53:28
More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska. There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio, every lake is man-made. The Eisenhower interstate system in the USA requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips ...