HAL 9000 Gone

from NBC News Douglas Rain, the creepy voice of HAL in ‘2001,’ dies at 90 Rain’s sinuous, detached reading of HAL’s lines made the computer’s murders of four astronauts all the more shocking. By Alex Johnson Douglas Rain, the acclaimed...

See, I told you they used ramps!

from The Guardian New discovery throws light on mystery of pyramids’ construction Egyptologists stumble across ramp that helps explain how huge blocks of stones were hauled into place by Kevin Rawlinson The mystery of how, exactly, the pyramids were built may...

137

from The Big Think Why the number 137 is one of the greatest mysteries in physics Famous physicists like Richard Feynman think 137 holds the answers to the Universe. by PAUL RATNER  The fine structure constant has mystified scientists since the 1800s. The number...