Strange and Surprising Plants

Plants that grow on bread and cheese

> Some molds make the cheese they grow in taste better. When a piece of bread gets old, it may become covered with pale, powdery spots. Each spot is a sort of “forest” of tiny, tiny plants called…

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Mathemagic

The smallest number

There is no biggest number. But is there a smallest number? Well, the number one is the smallest of the numbers that we count with. But it isn’t really the smallest of all numbers. You see, the…

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Once Upon a Time

Moon-in-Water

by Ivy 0. Eastwick Three Wise Men of Gotham thought the Moon was cheese and tried to fish it out of the river—if you please! but all the little tadpoles trilled a little tune: “You’ll never, never…

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