Bedtime Math

So here’s the key to the secret of life: is watermelon a fruit or a vegetable? Some say it’s a fruit because it comes from a flower and it has seeds — up to 800 of them. But other say it’s a cousin of the cucumb...

No, this isn’t a picture from a Dr. Seuss book. The trees in this photo are real, and they really are blue! Artist Konstantin Dimopoulous started painting trees blue to remind people that trees are disappearing from Earth — and that life would then look very differe...

Onions may be super stinky, and slicing them might make your eyes sting. But onions can do something fun that most foods can’t: pop apart into cute little circles, or rings. If you dip those rings in  batter and fry them in hot oil, they become crispy golden onion rings. Today is 

Father’s Day is when America celebrates all our great dads. But one animal dad who gets a shout-out is the gafftopsail catfish. After the mama catfish lays her eggs, the dad carries those eggs around in his mouth for a whole month! He can hold up to...

A palindrome is a word that is spelled the same backwards and forwards, like toot and racecar. Can you think of any others? It turns out numbers can do the same thing — like today’s date! Today is written as 6/20/26, which means the 20th day of the 6th month. In fact, we’re starting a whole stretch of palindrome days that will last through 6/29/26. Don’t forget, 6/2/26 was a ...