Archimedes Notebook

   The Lost Forest: An Unexpected Discovery beneath the Waves by Jennifer Swanson 56 pages; ages 9-14 ‎Millbrook Press, 2024 This book take...

  Last week I noticed crocuses popping up in yards down in town. Lots of crocuses. So I wandered over to see whether any insects might be ch...

  Animal Climate Heroes by Alison Pearce Stevens; illus. by Jason Ford  104 pages; ages 8-12 ‎Godwin Books, 2024 Just as every story needs a...

 Themes : climate, environment, immigration A couple years ago I put this book aside to review for an Earth Day post. Then things piled up… ...

 Tomorrow is Earth Day, so today is a perfect day for introducing a book about… Climate Warriors: Fourteen Scientists and Fourteen Ways We C...

Bugs for Breakfast: How Eating Insects Could Help Save the Planet  by Mary Boone  120 pages; ages 9 and up Chicago Review Press, 2021 Mary B...

Biocrust at the Birds of Prey National Conservation Area , Idaho / public domain  One of the points Alisha and I make in our book, Funky Fun...

Biodiversity: Explore the Diversity of Life on Earth (Build It Yourself series) by Laura Perdew; illus by Tom Casteel 128 pages; ages 9...

This past winter, when the polar vortex edged south and daily temperatures almost, but not quite, edged up to zero degrees (F) some folks jo...

Boy Bites Bug   By Rebecca Petruck 272 pages; ages 8 and up Amulet Books, 2018 I love finding STEM-related fiction, especially wh...

Depending on where you live (in the northern hemisphere), spring may already be on its way. Buds are swelling, opening, flowering... provi...

This has been a crazy winter. One day it's in the 50s (Fahrenheit) and the next it's 16. Or 4 degrees which, with windchills, starts...

I love it when I'm reading a novel and find that the author has a passion for animals, nature, math - and has incorporated STEM into the...

Walking through town the other day I saw some trees blooming. Even my forsythia is blooming again. It's October! Granted, we've h...