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Nothing has blown my mind quite like this case.. Keybr.com - Take typing lessons, test your typing speed and practice typing for free! 2012 March 12 - The Scale of the Universe Interactive. Discover the cosmos!

2012 March 12 - The Scale of the Universe Interactive

Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2012 March 12 The Scale of the Universe - Interactive Flash Animation Credit & Copyright: Cary & Michael Huang Explanation: What does the universe look like on small scales? On large scales? Tomorrow's picture: dust before galaxies Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply.NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important NoticesA service of:ASD at NASA / GSFC& Michigan Tech.

Meet the sloths. Your Math and Physics Questions Answered. 10 simple habits to improve self-esteem. Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your handbreak on. – Maxwell Maltz There are tons of articles out there claiming capability to change your life for the better, but the truth is that it’s completely up to you.

10 simple habits to improve self-esteem

Or not. Let me paraphrase that. In order to change anything in your life you need to look up for your old limiting habits first. Yes, that’s right. 1. If you decided to go and try bungee jumping then go and do it as fast as you can before the voice of the second thought tells you what you can or cannot do. A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. My dog left me a present. Such a sassy man, Neil deGrasse Tyson is.

My dog left me a present.

A CLOSER LOOK - Crazy as a Bag of Hammers - Humour, Jokes and fun stuff. Introduction. The purpose of this page is to provide a general overview of the Bitcoin system and economy. Basic Concepts Currency Alice wants to buy the Alpaca socks which Bob has for sale. In return, she must provide something of equal value to Bob. The most efficient way to do this is by using a medium of exchange that Bob accepts which would be classified as currency. Banks Alice need not provide currency to Bob in-person. Since banks have many customers, and bank employees require money for doing the job of talking to people and signing documents, banks in recent times have been using machines such as ATMs and web servers that do the job of interacting with customers instead of paid bank employees. Neil Young. Empire Features. Search results for "oscar wilde" (showing 81-100 of 1283 quotes) Bisous Chic. Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses) (Paul Cézanne) : National Gallery. Selected Objects from the Exhibition.

How the universe appeared from nothing. MacGregor Campbell, consultant There's no such thing as a free lunch, or so the saying goes, but that may not be true on the grandest, cosmic scale.

How the universe appeared from nothing

Many physicists now believe that the universe arose out of nothingness during the Big Bang which means that nothing must have somehow turned into something. How could that be possible? Due to the weirdness of quantum mechanics, nothing transforms into something all the time. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle states that a system can never have precisely zero energy and since energy and mass are equivalent, pairs of particles can form spontaneously as long as they annihilate one another very quickly.

The less energy such a system has, the longer it can stick around. If you take inflation into account, which physicists think caused rapid expansion in the early universe, we begin to see why MIT physicist Alan Guth calls the universe the "ultimate free lunch. " You can read the full story here or check out the rest of our Existence special. Math Isn't Just Computation. So Why Is That All We Teach? - Education. A reader named Monika Hardy recently noticed that I harp a lot on the importance of math when blogging about education.

Math Isn't Just Computation. So Why Is That All We Teach? - Education

(Guilty as charged.) So, she sent me an excellent talk from the recent TEDGlobal event from this summer. The speaker is Conrad Wolfram, brother of Stephen Wolfram, the polyglot behind the applications Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, who runs the firm Wolfram Research. His idea: Math is made up of four parts, and our schools are only teaching one of them. The elements of math, according to Wolfram are: posing questions, translating real world problems into mathematical language, performing computation, and translating mathematical answers into real world solutions. Computers should be doing those calculations.

What about the processes needed to solve mathematical problems? Check out the video, it's really good stuff—at least, I think so. Albert-camus-freedom-quote.png (PNG Image, 350x517 pixels) Kogeto Dot brings bite-size panoramic video recording to iPhone 4 (hands-on) The Idea Swap. DIY Projects « Fossil Blog. Tips For A Better Life - Ham and Heroin. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day.

Tips For A Better Life - Ham and Heroin

Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Sleep for 7 hours. Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy. Play more games. Read more books than you did the previous year. Touch Trigonometry.