The Worm With 100 Butts

I've been having fun making little hand-drawn zines. If you're not familiar with them, they're basically little folded paper booklets. Often printed in small batches and folded by hand, they're a chance to hand out information on whatever topic you choose, or just to be a bit silly. There's something really fun about handing someone a tiny book that they can take with them, and it makes a really fun project for kids, too.There are a bunch of different sizes you can make, depending on your starting paper and how you cut/fold it, but I was inspired by the extra-tiny microzine that Leah Velleman made for the linguistics podcast Lingthusiasm. Gretchen McCulloch, the linguist who is particularly enthusiastic about zines, explained that kids seem to be really drawn to the tiny hand-sized booklets. So I thought, why not use the zines to explain science that kids really need to know? I'm speaking, of course, of the worm ramisyllis multicaudata, and how it can have more than 100 butts.The last…