Fridaygram: student doodlers, wrinkled fingers, space station tour
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog
Editor
Each year the
Doodle
4 Google competition gives K - 12 students in the U.S. a chance to win a place for
their work on the Google homepage, along with
some nice prizes.
Submissions are open from now until March 22, and you can see all the rules and other
information
on the competition
site.
This is the sixth year for Doodle 4 Google. If you’re a
grade school student in the U.S., or you know someone who is, be sure to let them know about
this cool program.
You can submit your Doodle 4 Google entry on paper, because lots of people like to do their
drawing old school, with their hands. And speaking of hands, scientists have long wondered why
fingers on those hands get wrinkled after long exposure to water, such as in a swimming pool
or bathtub. A
recent
study suggests that this wrinkle effect might be an evolutionary advantage to help
us gain a better grip on wet objects. Long ago, this might have helped with food gathering;
now, it’s mostly just weird.
Finally, please take 25 minutes of your weekend and watch this wonderful
video tour of the International Space
Station conducted by departing commander
Sunita Williams.
Unless you’ve been to space, you’ll probably see things you’ve never seen before. And even if
you have been to space, or you are from space, you’ll probably enjoy it.
Each week we take a break from developer topics and publish Fridaygram,
featuring interesting stuff from Google and the rest of the universe that you might not have
noticed before. Last year we didn’t mention Doodle 4 Google until
it was over; we thought it would be better to talk about it sooner this
time.
