St. Patrick`s Day. Turn Yourself Green! Saint Patrick’s Day, also known as the Feast of Saint Patrick, is observed in many countries on or around March 17 each year.
This day is intended to commemorate Saint Patrick, one of Ireland’s patron saints. The holiday, originated in Ireland the Middle Ages, was spread to other parts of the world by Irish immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 21st century the interest in St. Patrick’s Day celebrations has really heated up in the area of commercial sales and since then St. Patrick’s Day became extremely popular in many counties. Celebrations of Saint Patrick’s Day concentrate around Irish and Irish American culture and traditions that commonly include themed parties, Irish food and drinks. Math or Magic? Mathematics, the science of numbers, quantities and shapes, is commonly represented as a set of exact rules, formulas and theorems.
Math concepts are often hard to understand but they are always based on strong mathematical proofs and justifications. However, even in the accurate world of digits there is always room for astonishing and mysterious facts. There are some math occurrences that look like a magic. Of course, there are mathematical arguments behind each of these riddles but nothing is more magnetic for a vivid human mind than a hint of mystery. Let’s exercise our brains with some of these mystic math puzzles. There is an interesting observation regarding the letter “A”, which is one of the most frequently used letters in the English language.
Many numbers have magical features. One more form of math magic is the math tricks which allow us to simplify the mathematical operations. Happy National Handwriting Day! Today is National Handwriting Day and it is a great opportunity to put aside keyboards and to reintroduce you to the lost art of handwriting.
The Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association initiated National Handwriting Day in 1977 in order to promote the consumption of stationery, writing paper, pens and pencils. January 23rd was chosen because it is John Hancock’s birthday. John Hancock was President of the Second Continental Congress, first Governor of Massachusetts, and the first person to sign the United States Declaration of Independence.
John Hancock is remembered for his prominent signature on the Declaration of Independence, which is so imposing and easily recognizable, that his name became a synonym for “signature” in the United States. Fascinating Facts about Mathematics. Your Brain by the Numbers. Self Sufficiency. 30 years of Space Shuttle history. Biology, the Science of All Life. It often happens that academic disciplines seem to students inapplicable to real life and therefore undeserving of in-depth study.
But nobody can say this about biology. The term biology originates from the Greek words bios “life” and -logia, “study of.” So biology is the study of life and living organisms. Biology researches the basis of vital activity and interaction between all living things. It is a vast science containing many subdisciplines, including cell biology, microbiology, botany, zoology, anatomy, virology, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, agriculture, ecology, epidemiology, pharmacology, and many others. However, there are still many people who believe that biology is a discipline concerned mainly with the boring examining of flowers and insects under a microscope.
Interesting Halloween Facts. Halloween is one of the most exciting holidays celebrated by both adults and children on October 31st every year.
It’s a time when miracles are possible and all disbelief is suspended. It’s a day for celebration, for magic, for funny tricks, for scary stories and for family. Here are some Halloween fascinating facts which might be new for you. Educate yourself with Halloween trivia facts to get pleasure from the holidays much more. Space.com. JTE - Journal of Technology Education. Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived. Additional notes from the author: If you want to learn more about Tesla, I highly recommend reading Tesla: Man Out of Time Also, this Badass of the week by Ben Thompson is what originally inspired me to write a comic about Tesla.
Ben's also got a book out which is packed full of awesome. There's an old movie from the 80s on Netflix Instant Queue right now about Tesla: The Secret of Nikola Tesla. It's corny and full of bad acting, but it paints a fairly accurate depiction of his life. The drunk history of Tesla is quite awesome, too. History.com has a great article about Edison and how his douchebaggery had a chokehold on American cinema. Arctic Microbes Sleep for 100 Million Years. Heat-loving bugs at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean may spend a hundred million years waiting for things to warm up, according to a new study.
Casey Hubert of Newcastle University in the United Kingdom and a team of researchers analyzed bacteria populations in sediment samples from the arctic sea floor. As they surmised, microbes became very productive as samples were heated to a balmy 20 degrees Celsius (68 degrees Fahrenheit). Then something surprising happened: as the samples were heated further, bacterial activity spiked again at 55 degrees C (131 degrees F).
In other words, the bugs were flourishing in temperatures far beyond anything they'd see in the frigid confines of the Arctic Ocean. So what's going on? Hubert's theory…proposes that rising currents thrust some cells out of their deep hot niche and into the cold Arctic seawater, where they lie dormant.