Sponges, sea squirts, and worms

Sea squirts

Did anyone ever call you a “little squirt”? They were calling you after a little creature that lives in the sea—the sea squirt. A sea squirt may look like two tubes joined together at the sides….

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Mathemagic

A square puzzle

Long ago, there was a farmer whose land was in the shape of a square. Each side of the square was exactly one hundred paces long. One day, a tired, dusty man knocked on the farmer’s door and asked…

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February

Let’s go to the Rondy!

Anchorage Fur Rendezvous Meet “Mr. Fur Face”! The title is azvarded each year in a beard-growing contest at the Rondy. Rondy is short for rendezvous—a place where people get together. It’s…

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