A red knot is a tiny shorebird that makes an epic 9000-mile journey all the way from the arctic to the tip of southern Chile and back. Biologists and nature enthusiasts congregate at various points ...

Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an ...

In this video, we break down how children learn to count and how you can help. In this video, we break down how children learn to count and how you, as a family member of a young learner, can help ...

Early Friday morning, volunteers and paid staff across King County will try to count the street homeless like me, as they have nearly every year since 1982. The results may show a substantial increase ...

This is an installment of Reading Reddit, a Slate pop-up blog about Reddit. In the beginning, there was 1. Then, there was 2. Soon after that, there was 3, and 4, and ...

Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. That’s the ...