TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from 3 worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
TED is owned by The Sapling Foundation, a private nonprofit foundation, a 501(c)3 organization under US tax code. It was established in 1996 by Chris Anderson, who was at that time a magazine publishing entrepreneur.
International Space Station Commander Dan Burbank captured spectacular imagery of Comet Lovejoy from about 240 miles above the Earth’s horizon on Wednesday, Dec. 21. Burbank described seeing the comet two nights ago as "the most amazing thing I have ever seen in space," in an interview with WDIV-TV in Detroit. Last night he captured hundreds of still images of the comet.
Axial precession is the reason the Earth's axis has a long-term but quite dramatic "wobble", as explained here by Roger Bowley and Mike Merrifield.
Flerovium and Livermorium have been proposed as the names for elements 114 and 116.
A demo of science at The Royal Institution.
Here is a game for you to play and investigate. Is there a winning strategy?
Each player takes it in turns to pick a number, the first to pick three numbers that add up to 15 wins.
The Eatery could be useful in order to keep track of your meals, making you able to improve your nutrition habits. It is easy: you just need to snap and rate. The app makes that process fast and fun.
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It may be that people using The Eatery app get a chance to eat more healthy.
Previews of the app:
This is image of refractive index distribution in a thin optical section of Crane Fly Nephrotoma suturalis spermatocyte during metaphase of meiosis I.
69 is the largest number that most hand-held calculators can factorialize!
Professor Laurence Eaves from the University of Nottingham explains.
For many years, 8128 was the largest known perfect number. But what is a perfect number?
This video features Dr James Grime.
