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Via 24/7 Bebenta Sa'yo“CEBU City is nominated for the FIRST EVER NEW 7 WONDERS CITIES of the WORLD!
Visit http://www.n7w.com/cities/en & go to “South East Asia & Oceania” REGION and CEBU City as one of your NEW 7 WONDERS CITIES of the WORLD.
Let’s make CEBU#1, VOTE NOW & SHARE the CAMPAIGN before the voting process ends! SHARE THIS CAMPAIGN & VOTE! (via Choose CEBU).”
2 months ago
How solar storms work
Came across this site this morning, and with all the hype on the solar storms, I kinda got curious. This short article (with animations! yey!) gave me a quick science lecture on solar storms. Click on the title to find out!
who would’ve though… sudokuologists exist!
Via It's Okay To Be Smart17
Dr. James Grime breaks down sudoku research (yes, people work on that). The sudokuologists have calculated that the minimum number of starting clues to uniquely complete a puzzle is 17. Not 16. But 17.
Why is that the fewest number of starting clues to complete a puzzle? It has to do with a lot of large exponential numbers and seven million hours of high-powered computing.
Work like this is about more than number games. It’s about building tools to solve bewilderingly huge problems. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go tell my grandmother. She’s a sudoku addict.
(by numberphile)
New 7 wonders of Nature
Please vote for the PUERTO PRINSESA UNDERGROUND RIVER of the Philippines!!!
Via It's Okay To Be SmartThe word planet comes from Ancient Greek virtually unchanged, but unlike the word star covered in the last post, the word planet comes from a verb that was used to modify the word star: (asteres) planetai, or wandering stars. The Greek word planao meant cause to wander, lead astray, even travel abroad. When it was applied to stars it meant the stars that were not fixed in the sky but rather moved around over the course of the year.
Don’t forget to check out my weekly blog with NPR:
http://www.talkingscience.org/category/parent/science-dad/
Images of the planets courtesy NASA. Apologies to Pluto, now classified as a dwarf planet or redundantly a plutoid.
A little refresher on where the word “planets” comes from courtesy of the Science Dad!
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