by | Mar 13, 2015 | Culture Music Art
from The New Yorker Why Pi Matters BY STEVEN STROGATZ The beauty of pi, in part, is that it puts infinity within reach. CREDITPHOTOGRAPH BY JEFFREY COOLIDGE / GETTY Every March 14th, mathematicians like me are prodded out of our burrows like Punxsutawney Phil on...
by | Mar 12, 2015 | Culture Music Art
from The New Yorker How Much Does Pacquiao-Mayweather Matter? BY KELEFA SANNEH Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. CREDITPHOTOGRAPH BY ESTHER LIN/SHOWTIME® In a humid boxing gym in Hollywood on Tuesday, members of the sports media outnumbered world-class boxers by...
by | Mar 11, 2015 | Weirdness
from Popular Mechanics Why the Warm Ocean on This Moon of Saturn Could Be Perfect for Life One of the most promising places to look for life beyond Earth just got even more tantalizing Move over, Europa. It looks as though the most life-friendly habitat ever...
by | Mar 10, 2015 | Culture Music Art
from CNBC Billionaire teams up with NASA to mine the moon by Susan Caminiti Source: MoonExpress Moon Express, a Mountain View, California-based company that’s aiming to send the first commercial robotic spacecraft to the moon next year, just took another step...
by | Mar 9, 2015 | Weirdness