How Does Your Garden Grow?

Living-room gardens

> avocado Would you like to have a garden in your living room? One way to do it is to buy house plants. Philodendrons, ser­pent’s tongue, and rubber plants, which grow wild in hot parts of the…

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Mathemagic

Counting triangles

The design shown above is made entirely of triangles. How many triangles, of all sizes, do you think there are? Altogether, there are 88 triangles! See if you can find them all. There are 42…

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Air, Wind, Clouds, and Weather

The storm with an eye

A hurricane is a storm that’s shaped like a doughnut. It’s a great, whirling circle of clouds, hundreds of miles (kilometers) wide. In the middle is a hole where the ah­is perfectly calm. This hole…

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