10 Neat Things Archives

The Colour Blue

1. Blue impatiens. Impatiens namchabarwensis is a semi-woody, branching, one-foot tall plant with delicate true-blue blooms that was discovered in

1. Lily of the Incas. Deep in South America, in the southern Andes, clumps of richly coloured flowers grew from

1. Names. Earthworms are of many different species. The common one we tend to recognize as an earthworm is Lumbricus

1. Tooth of the lion. The English common name “dandelion” comes from the French dent de lion, meaning tooth of

1. Do bees have noses? Not exactly, but they do detect odour through receptors in their antennae. Various insects

1. Snow is not so dense as it looks. A cubic yard of snow will not yield a cubic yard