Today is Pi Day, celebrated each year on March 14th, or 3.14, with extreme enthusiasts further designating 1:59 as a special minute; Happy Pi Day!. From one coast to the other the mathematically inclined, not to mention a boatload of teachers, will all be spreading the word about this most mathematical of days.
Yes, and not just once… a lot of folks have made Periodic Table of Cupcakes, some much more creative than others.
There are some things you can’t cover up with lipstick and powder… and it is my bet the latest incarnation of the Disco Robot Overlord is one of them!!
The Higgs Boson is often referred to as the God Particle for the simple reason that once they find and understand it, it could literally open the universe for us. The first video is Professor Michio Kaku giving a very brief introduction to the concept, and why the discovery is important. They came very close in December, and the actual discovery is expected, or at least hoped for, this year. The second video goes into a bit of additional detail on the concept of the Higgs Boson, which interacts with all but three other particles. Which means the discovery and direct observation of the Higgs could give us the key to the ToE (Theory of Everything) that Einstein spent his last 30 years working on, and pretty much every physicist since has taken a crack at. The key to time travel, FTL travel, as well as access to higher dimensions and parallel universes, this discovery could be the game changer that brings the future alive.
The folks over at Eepy Bird have a mission: to take everyday objects and turn them into something extraordinary. This time around the ordinary was Coke Zero and Mentos, and the extraordinary was the rocket car they built using them. This is actually the Model 2 version, which gives them greater speed and range than their original soda powered rocket car. This is the kind of scientific research that gives me hope that the world might be a more fun place in the future.
This video is a very good explanation of the most dangerous virus released so far. The sad part is, your tax dollars may have paid for it, depending on where you live. And if you do live there, don’t be surprised when it comes home to roost, as all such things do. Having a good way to leave the planet might be useful when that happens, so hopefully any government that would build and unleash such a thing would be funding its space program well into the future, to protect its citizens.
Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus from Patrick Clair on Vimeo.