friday answers

1. Would you like to help me make a Super Brain?

1. Yes. What is a Super Brain?

1a. A Super Brain is a big piece of paper with all the things that happened in your life.

2. Why did the dinosaurs die?

2. What do you think?

2a. I think it got really cold and then they all died.

2b. Right. It was called the Ice Age.

2b1. "The general term "ice age" or, more precisely, "glacial age" denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. An ice age is a natural system. Within a long-term ice age, individual pulses of extra cold climate are termed "glaciations".

3. How did 'mobile' get its name?

3. The word "mobile" means "to move." Your papa and I love Alexander Calder. Let's go to Storm King sometime.

3a. Definitions of mobile on the Web: migratory; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy ...• moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator" • a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay • having transportation available • capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another; "a highly mobile face" • sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents.

4. Is Nancy Drew alive? Because I love Nancy Drew.

4. I'm sorry to say that Nancy Drew is not real. She is a fictional character created by Carolyn Keene, who was a fictional character created by Mildred Wirt and the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Benson and Edward Stratemeyer's daughter, Harriet Adams, are often credited as the primary writers of Nancy Drew books under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene;^[1] other ghostwriters who used this name to write Nancy Drew mysteries included James Duncan Lawrence, Walter Karig, Nancy Axelrad, Priscilla Doll, Charles Strong, Alma Sasse, Wilhelmina Rankin, George Waller Jr.,Margaret Scherf, and Susan Wittig Albert.