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The Scale of Life

The Scale of Life

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Deep Time : A History of the Earth - Interactive Infographic Life on the planet started astonishingly early. The first living organisms, in the current model of evolution, are thought to be Prokaryotes1. The oldest known fossilised prokaryotes have been dated to approximately 3.5 billion years ago, only 1 billion years after the formation of the Earth's crust. Vi Hart: Math Doodling Remember that video about doodling dragons and fractals and stuff? I finally finished part 2! Here is a magnet link so you can dowload it via torrent. Here it is on YouTube: You can tell I worked on it for a long time over many interruptions (travelling and other stuff), because in order to keep myself from hating what was supposed to be a quick easy part 2, I had to amuse myself with snakes.

Comet 'brighter than the moon' will fly-by the Earth in 2013 By Eddie Wrenn Published: 08:45 GMT, 27 September 2012 | Updated: 13:28 GMT, 27 September 2012 They are one of the most spectacular views a human could hope to see - and next year a comet which could outshine the moon is due to fly by the Earth. Comet ISON is visiting the inner solar system and is set to put on spectacular views for the Northern Hemisphere across November and December as it heads towards the sun.

The Collective Evolution II: The Human Experience How To Start A Revolution 12.63K Views0 Likes Half a world away from Cairo’s Tahrir Square, an ageing American intellectual shuffles around his cluttered terrace house in a working-class Boston neighbourhood. Design Seeds&: For All Who Love Color #ededed #e8dcca #b08a61 #66503c Magnifying the Universe Embed this infographic on your site! <iframe width="500" height="323" scrolling="no" src=" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />Copyright 2012. <a href=" the Universe</a> by <a href=" Sleuth</a>. The above is an interactive infographic. We have also developed a complimentary poster that you can view here: Sizes of the Universe poster.

How To Slice A Bagel Along A Mobius Strip — And Why ​In the weeks before Doug Sohn closed down his legendary Chicago sausage joint Hot Doug’s, people were literally walking in the door and offering him a million dollars to stay open. This week on The Sporkful podcast, we’re featuring part one of our live show at the Taste of Chicago. I talk to Doug about why he walked away from all that money, and one of the top chefs in the world reveals his favorite candy bar. As part of our live show I also interviewed mathematician Eugenia Cheng, author of How To Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics, who sliced a bagel along a Mobius strip live on stage. (The audio of her interview will be in our Live from Chicago Part Two podcast next week.) A Mobius strip, as you probably forgot, is a surface with only one side.

Lots of Jokes - Anger Management When you occasionally have a really bad day, and you just need to take it out on someone, don't take it out on someone you know, take it out on someone you don't know, but you know deserves it... I was sitting at my desk when I remembered a phone call I'd forgotten to make. I found the number and dialed it.

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