For a single-celled organism, slime mould is pretty
extraordinary. For a start, it keeps its memories on the
outside of its body. It solves mazes and can be used to
design rail networks. Speaking as someone who has
been to university and can barely find my way out of
a John Lewis without walking slap bang into a glass
door, I’d call that pretty clever, wouldn’t you?
Are you sharper than a bread knife in a marshmallow
factory? Are you brighter than a quasar in neon cycling
shorts? (Just go with it, ed.) Can your brain hold more
information than Einstein’s Filofax? Great, then try
these on for size. Here’s Brainfeeders!
Did you know that Leonardo Pisano – or
Fibonacci – as he is better known, came up
with his famous sequence while trying to
solve a problem about rabbits? No, neither
did we. Calculata finds out all about
design in nature, here.
Prepare to be bedazzled! Polly
makes bejewelled spider webs.
Make an entirely original Fibonacci
fun times filter, binvented (that means
invented from things we found in a bin)
especially for you AQUILAnauts! You’ll
never draw without one again.
Jack says he has tamed four ocelots! We’re confused
Jack, is that a Minecraft thing or a real life thing*?
It is illegal to keep them in the UK. Get up to date
with our readers and their apparently death-defying
animal training antics on the Over to you page.
*We’re pretty sure it’s a Minecraft thing.
Use your mad maths skills
to save the planet.
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Can Feline Cadet Chimlin protect his human
from the dangerous moonshadows and earn
Fee’s respect? Find out in this month’s short
story: Shadow Stalker, by Laurence Raphael
Brothers.
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