We don't get lots of big snows in my neck of the woods, so any occasion of puffy white flakes falling from the sky makes me giddy. I'm like a kid with my fingers crossed for a snow day from school. Just this week, we had a beautiful flurry that …
Some people love mushrooms, some hate them, but lots don't even know that mushrooms are fungi. When you mention the word fungus, most people wince, envisioning a deformed toenail or wedge of cheese that started sprouting green growth in the drawer of …
Imagine being the first person to look through a handmade microscope at a slide of water and seeing creatures moving, eating, reproducing. This is exactly what happened in the 1670s to the Dutch scientist, Anton Van Leeuwenhoek. He saw an invisible …
