TV teaches kids about science — with one glaring exception

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By Melinda Wenner MoyerFeb 8, 2017, 4:24 pm164 pts
This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A cheetah can run 70 miles per hour. Venus and Earth are about the same size. Blobfish don’t have any bones. These are facts I’ve learned from my 5-year-old in the past several weeks courtesy of…

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