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W ould you like music with that? Check out these instruments, which are shaped like a burger and fries. Click the hamburger and bun together to make a sound, just as you would a castanet. And the fries work like maracas. When you shake them, each fry bangs against the others to make instant music. Hold the ketchup—it's time to jam! ic out , rger rger a k ke t s r e M ice on ice? Scientists are taking a close look at fuzzy balls of moss that show up on some glaciers in Alaska and Iceland. It seems that herds of these moss balls—which are about the size of tennis balls and have been nicknamed glacier mice—move slowly across the icy surface. So slowly, in fact, that you can't see it happen. While experts have known about glacier mice for decades, they still don't know how the mounds move. Scientists have theorized that wind was pushing them along, or that these herds were resting on a slope and slowly slip-sliding away. But studies have shown that doesn't seem to be the case, so the mystery of the glacier mice remains unsolved. Stay tuned! THE MYSTERY OF THE MYSTERY OF MOVING MOSS MUSIC TO YOUR STOMACH MOSS GETS A MOVE ON MUSICAL COMBO A ll hail the king! A woman in Denmark found a way to make her pet the top dog in the neighbourhood. She painted a king's crown and robe around a hole on the outside of her fence. Now when her dog, Bogart, pokes his head through the hole, he looks like a king to passersby. While Bogart gets into costume the most, his bulldog mom has also been known to peek her head through the fence once in a while. That's what you call a royal family! DON'T FENCE ME IN TEXT: MARIA BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS: OVIDIU RONIN, BACAU STREET DELIVERY FEST (ILLUSION ART); THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO AND MERCARI R4D (INFLATABLE BIKE); TECH-LIFE (QUIZ WHIZ); KIKO & GG (BURGER AND FRIES INSTRUMENTS); DR. RUTH MOTTRAM, DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE (GLACIER MICE); DREAMSTIME (KING DOG) owlconnected.com 7 A THE ROYAL TREATMENT

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