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BIRTHDAYS of the week
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Bowie’s Mike Miller (2002). Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck (1920).
TUESDAY 7 SUNDA
Kensington’s Vanessa Turner (2004). Silver Spring’s Alex Weinberg and Charlie Weinberg (2004). Falls Church’s Emily Hoskins (2001). Ashburn’s Nicolette Kinney (2001). Rockville’s Sunaina Sunda (2001). Upper Marlboro’s Ryan Olden (1999). Bethesda’s Andrea Silverman (1999).
WEDNESDAY 8 SILVERMAN
Fairfax Station’s Daniel Best (2000). Lanham’s Maurice Butler Jr. (2000). Vienna’s Jonathan Egelhofer (2000). Silver Spring’s Beneal Kenea (2000). Musician Jim Morrison (1943).
THURSDAY 9 KENEA
Ashburn’s Amber Schmitt (2001). Sunderland’s Owen Flanagan (2000). Kensington’s Maggie Hickey (1999). Capitol Heights’ Brandon Joyner (1999). Fairfax Station’s Cameron Walsh (1997).
FRIDAY 10 Hyattsville’s DaKima Dorsey (2001). DORSEY
Bethesda’s Paige Spaulding (1997). Poet Emily Dickinson (1830).
SATURDAY 11
Oakton’s Liam Cassidy (2004). Oak Hill’s Zoe Siamon (2002). Rockville’s Nicole Deprey (2000).
SUNDAY 12 SIAMON
Washington’s Samuel Mencimer (2003). Fairfax’s Sarah Goh (2002). South Riding’s Mickey Gordon (2002). Bethesda’s Anna Nardello (2002). University Park’s Annie-Jewel Foxworth (2000). Largo’s Tré Leo Wood (1998). Singer Frank Sinatra (1915).
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MENCIMER CASSIDY FLANAGAN BUTLER OLDEN KINNEY I FRAZZ
MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2010 JEF MALLETT
TODAY:Partly sunny
HIGH LOW 39 25
ILLUSTRATION BY ERIN O’HARA, 10, BURKE
The world’s longest human tongue measures 3.86 inches when stuck out, according to GuinnessWorld Records.
thought I’d do an interactive col- umntoday. If you have a mouthful of cereal or toast, I’d like you to
swallow, rinse your mouth with water and sit in front of a mirror. You might need a flashlight. Open your mouth and look at your
teeth, gums and tongue. These are the familiar parts of your mouth that you see every day without thinking about them. Now tilt your head back and look at the roof of your mouth, also known as the palate. There are two parts to the palate. The ridged part in the front is thehardpalate,and the squishy part in back is the soft palate. When you swallow, the soft palate is pushed back, keeping food out of the nasal cavity. Hangingdownfrom the back of the
soft palate is the uvula (yoo-vya-la). Most people have a single uvula. However, 2 percent of people have a bifid uvula, which means it has a forked appearance. In the back of your mouth on either
side of the uvula are your tonsils. They are pink lumps of tissue with a pocked surface that makes them look a little like fleshy golf balls. Because tonsils are part of your upper respira- tory tract, they often get infected with viruses and strep throat. Nowcomes the hard part. Stick out
your tongue as far as you can. Some tongues are harder to examine than others. If yours isn’t cooperating, I’m sure your dad will let you borrow his. Do you see the big bumps on the
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back of your tongue? Most people have no idea what those bumps are or what they do. In fact, I often get calls from worried parents who were look- ing at their child’s tonsils when they noticed the back of his tongue looked like the surface of the moon! Rather than being a sign of a hideous disease, these odd-shaped bumps are called circumvallate papillae (sir-cum-val- ate pah-pill-ay). The average tongue contains 5,000 taste buds. Although
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they are too small to see, taste buds sit on raised bumps, or papillae, that cover the upper surface of the tongue. Thereare four types of papillae: fungi- form, foliate, filiform and circumval- late. If you haven’t thrown up yet, curl
your tongue so you can see its under- belly. The first thing you’ll notice is a thin band of pink tissue that connects the underside of the tongue to the floor of the mouth. This is called the frenulum. It helps fix your tongue to the floor of the mouth. (You also have two smaller frenulums, which attach the underside of your upperandlower lips to your gums.)
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WONDERED what’s in your mouth?
ISTOCKPHOTO Finally, if you look at the floor of
your mouth, you will notice that it’s moist. This is because you have hun- dreds of tiny salivary glands through- out your oral cavity. Although some kids think thepurposeof saliva is tobe able to spit, it actually containschemi- cals that begin to digest starches in your mouth. That’s why a cracker will taste slightly sweet after you chew it. Okay, time for you to go back to
eating breakfast — or at least close your mouth!
—Howard Bennett
Howard Bennett, aWashington pediatrician, is the author of “Lions Aren’t Scared of Shots.”
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An online guide to events, night life and entertainment
Free & easy
MONDAY ‘Black Box: Hans Op de Beeck’ The Belgian artist’s black-and-white video
“Staging Silence,” which goes on viewMonday, is one part whimsical, one part freaky, showing human handsmaking alterations to cityscapes, home interiors and other seemingly normal-size settings of everyday life. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. daily through Feb. 27. Hirshhorn
Museumand Sculpture Garden, Independence Avenue and Seventh Street SW. 202-633-1000.
www.hirshhorn.si.edu.
TUESDAY Pearl Harbor Day
The NavyMemorial will commemorate the 69th
anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor with a wreath-laying ceremony on the plaza. There will also be speakers, and survivors of the attack will attend. 1 p.m. U.S. NavyMemorial, 701 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202-737-2300.
www.navymemorial.org.
WEDNESDAY Bill Simmons ESPN’s Sports Guy drops by downtown to sign
copies of his encyclopedic hard-courtmanifesto, “Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy.” 6:30 p.m. Borders, 1801 K St. NW. 202-466-4999.
www.borders.com.
THURSDAY Second Thursday Art Night Hoping to have some fun while finishing up your
holiday shopping? Look no further than the Torpedo Factory, which stays open late so shoppers can peruse the galleries while sipping on sparkling wine and tasting chocolates. 6-9 p.m. Torpedo Factory Arts Center, 105 N. Union St., Alexandria. 703-838-4565.
FRIDAY Chris Blackwell The founder of Island Records, the label
responsible for BobMarley and U2, talks about and signs copies of the book “Keep On Running: 50 Years of Island Records.” 6 p.m. Govinda Gallery, 1227 34th St. NW. 202-333-1180.
www.govindagallery.com.
HANS OP DE BEECK STRANGEVIEW:Astill fromHans Op de Beeck’s whimsical, eerie video “Staging Silence.”
SATURDAY Artist lecture: Patti Smith The punk-rock legend discusses “Just Kids,” a
memoir chronicling her friendship with photographer RobertMapplethorpe and the art scene in 1970s New York. 2 p.m. National Portrait Gallery, Eighth and F streets NW. 202-633-1000.
www.npg.si.edu.
SUNDAY ‘Power Moves: From Bruce Lee’s Interrupting Fist to Hip Hop and Beyond’
Choreographer-dancer Peggy Cho fusesmartial
arts with diverse forms of dance in the world premier of “Jeet Kune Do,” a filmset tomusic by award-winning Asian American jazz composer Fred Ho. The event is part of the “Remembering Bruce Lee” series. 2 p.m. Freer Gallery,Meyer Auditorium, 1050
Independence Ave. SW. 202-633-1000.
www.asia.si.edu.
— Alex Baldinger, DavidMalitz and StephanieMerry
c P L A N N I N G A N E V E N T W E S H O U L D K N O W A B O U T ? T E L L U S . S E N D L I S T I N G S I N F O R M A T I O N T O E V E N T S@WA S H I N G T O N P O S T . C O M KATHERINE FREY/THE WASHINGTON POST
AMERICANCLASSIC: “Boy on High Dive” (1947) is among the Rockwell paintings lent by Steven Spielberg to the show.
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ART ROCKWELL DISCUSSION If anything evokes a suburban, mid- century fantasy of America in which Christmas is the magical centerpiece, it’s our idea of Norman Rockwell’s work. Of course, the Smithsonian’s “Telling Stories” exhibit delves into Rockwell’s real impact on American art, his wit and range and occasional subversion of the very ideal he’s now synonymous with. Tuesday night, senior curator Virginia Mecklenburg will give a lecture on Rockwell’s influence on the world of film — appropriate, as the exhibit is full of paintings lent by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, both of whom see Rockwell as a major influence on their filmmaking.
Tuesday at 7 p.m. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Eighth and F streets NW (Metro: Gallery Place). 202-633-8490.
www.normanrockwell.eventbrite.com. Free; registration required. — Fiona Zublin
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