Archimedes Notebook

One of the things that attracts me to gardens is color. Bees are attracted by color, too! They appreciate yellow and orange and blue and pur...

  if I were an ant beneath a blueberry bush what would I see?

Rare and Blue: Finding Nature's Treasures  by Constance Van Hoven; illus. by Alan Marks 48 pages; ages 7-10 Charlesbridge, 2020 ...

Do flowers talk? And if they do, can we hear them? Sara Levine addresses these - and more questions - in her new book. Flower Talk: How...

Grab some colored pencils (or crayons or watercolors or....) and paper and head outside to collect colors. What colors are the flowers t...

The Call of the Osprey by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent; photos by William Munoz 80 pages; ages 10 & up Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015 ...

About a thousand years ago a Chinese monk stuffed gunpowder into a piece of bamboo and tossed it into the fire. He wanted to make a noise...

It's almost Halloween - an evening celebrated by ghosts and goblins and things orange: candy corn, pumpkin cookies and jelly beans. So...

When snow and ice combine to make my steep driveway impossible to drive up, I wait for a sunny day and sprinkle ashes on top of the sno...