

Tower of Hanoi
[Sec Maths and above: Number Patterns / Functions] You've heard of the Tower of Hanoi puzzle, probably. That funny rings-and-discs thing you see around kindergartens, or some leisure rooms etc. You have, probably, either played it yourself or at least seen an instance of it being played. (If not, this video would be quite a treat.) I think it's fairly self-explanatory, but yes, you can derive it by charting the possible outcomes of each state. In primary school, your question


Fig wasps are cool.
[Pri Science: Adaptations] I'm not too much of a Science teacher, but I can appreciate some of the cooler things that animals do to survive. Inside of the fig, the males and females are protected from other predators such as spiders, because those are too large to fit through the fig hole. Here we see a mutual symbiosis of sorts: The fig wasps rely on the fig for protection and reproduction, and in turn the figs are pollinated by the wasps that leave the fig to land upon anot