Top 22 Animals You've Never Heard Of | MadPet - Funny Pets Videos and Pictures Mother nature is beautiful and hosts us thousand of beautiful species and breathtaking nature and environment we live in. All around the world there are a lot of untested areas and a lot of species that are not discovered. In today’s article we will show you top 22 animals that are discovered, but rare and not so well known. The Dhole The Dhole is a species of canid native to South and Southeast Asia. The Babirusa Babirusa, meaning “Hog-deer”, are members of the pig family found in Wallacea, or specifically the Indonesian islands of Sulawesi, Togian, Sula and Buru. Pink Fairy Armadillo The pink fairy armadillo is approximately 3.5-4.5 inches long, excluding the tail, and is pale rose or pink in color. The Fossa The fossa is a cat-like, carnivorous mammal that is endemic to Madagascar. The Gerenuk The gerenuk, also known as the Waller’s gazelle, is a long-necked species of antelope found in dry thorn bush scrub and desert in Eastern Africa. Naked Mole Rat Irrawaddy Dolphin Markhor Yeti Crab
Einstein's Pathway to Special Relativity Back to main course page John D. Norton Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Pittsburgh Background reading: J. Schwartz and M. We have now reviewed the developments in the physics of moving bodies, of light, of electricity and magnetism that brought the physics that Einstein found when he began to think about ether, electricity, magnetism and motion. It was pondering these developments that led Einstein to discover the special theory of relativity in 1905. The story of Einstein's discovery of special relativity has exercised an almost irresistible fascination on many, in spite of the dearth of sources. Chasing a beam of light Einstein in high school Writing a half century later in 1946 in his Autobiographical Notes, Einstein recounted a thought experiment conducted while he was a 16 year old student in 1896 that marked his first steps towards special relativity. "...a paradox upon which I had already hit at the age of sixteen: The basic thought is clear.
What are special and general relativity? Le concours général Depuis 1747 en France, le concours général est un concours destiné à récompenser chaque année les meilleurs élèves des classes de première et de terminale dans le concours général des lycées (source Wikipédia) Une explication du concours sur Eduscol Le palmarès Association des lauréats Les sujets du Concours Général en physique (format pdf) : - Année 2000 - Année 2001 - Année 2002 - Année 2003 - Année 2004 - Année 2005 - Année 2006 - Année 2007 - Année 2008 - Année 2009
image What Is Michael Burry Doing Today? ‘The Big Short’ Character Is Still Weary Of The Financial Market Adam McKay's dramedy about the 2008 financial crisis, The Big Short, is drawing rave reviews and plenty of Oscar buzz, with some even saying the movie makes the confusing housing market meltdown more accessible than it's ever been before. The film's cast is tremendous, with Brad Pitt, Steve Carrell, and Ryan Gosling all playing fictional characters who are based on people who actually saw what was happening in the market. But the most intriguing character of all also happens to be a real person: Dr. Michael Burry, portrayed in the film by Christian Bale. Burry is still involved in the financial sector, and he's still making predictions about what could go wrong in the economy. But after a few years of laying low, Burry decided to once again become a hedge fund manager. In a Dec. 28, 2015 interview with New York Magazine, Burry outlines the problems he still sees in the financial system — and he doesn't think the preventative measures put in place by the government are helping matters.
Do Try This At Home Scientific experiments do not need to happen in fancy laboratories. Exploring science can happen at home using inexpensive supplies. Oobleck Oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid that behaves unlike other fluids. For this experiment, you will need: 1 part water 2 parts cornstarch Drops of food coloring (there are a few options with this) Combine ingredients and stir. Oobleck is nontoxic, but does get messy. Precipitation in a Jar: Exploring precipitation at home is quite easy. 200 ml (1 cup) Hot, but not boiling, water Tall glass jar Glass plate Ice cubes Pour the hot water into the clear glass jar and immediately cover with the plate. DNA Extraction DNA can be extracted and examined quite easily. To begin, you will need to choose the source of DNA. Add the plant material, salt, and water to the blender. Unpoppable bubbles Industrial strength bubbles that resist popping are easy to make. Slowly stir the ingredients together in the bowl, as to not form bubbles. Glow in the Dark Bubbles
Michael Jackson American singer (1958–2009) Jackson is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with estimated sales of over 500 million records.[nb 2] He holds a joint-record for a male solo artist with 13 Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles and is the only artist to have a top-ten single in six decades. One of the most-awarded music artists in history, Jackson received 13 Grammy Awards, the Grammy Legend Award, and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award; 26 American Music Awards; 12 World Music Awards; eight MTV Video Music Awards; six Brit Awards; and three presidential honors. He was inducted into numerous halls of fame, including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Dance Hall of Fame. Life and career Early life and the Jackson 5 (1958–1975) Move to Epic and Off the Wall (1975–1981) Jackson felt Off the Wall should have made a bigger impact, and was determined to exceed expectations with his next release. Increased tabloid speculation (1986–1987) Death
These 19 Nightmarish Places Will Keep You Awake At Night… They Sent Chills Down My Spine. As you go about your daily life, it’s easy to forget all of the weird and wonderful things that are tucked away around the world. A Redditor cobbled together 19 of the strangest places on earth, reminding us all of the creepy things that could be hidden in our very towns. Dark forests, abandoned cities, strange museums and other oddities are everywhere. You just need to know how to find them. 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.) 11.) 12.) 13.) 14.) 15.) 16.) 17.) 18.) 19.) Some of the strangest places on earth aren’t legitimately haunted, instead they are haunted by the memories of the horrors that were once committed there. Share these strange places with others… spread the chills that go down your spine.
How the Science of Swarms Can Help Us Fight Cancer and Predict the Future | Science The first thing to hit Iain Couzin when he walked into the Oxford lab where he kept his locusts was the smell, like a stale barn full of old hay. The second, third, and fourth things to hit him were locusts. The insects frequently escaped their cages and careened into the faces of scientists and lab techs. The room was hot and humid, and the constant commotion of 20,000 bugs produced a miasma of aerosolized insect exoskeleton. In the mid-2000s that lab was, however, one of the only places on earth to do the kind of science Couzin wanted. Couzin would put groups of up to 120 juveniles into a sombrero-shaped arena he called the locust accelerator, letting them walk in circles around the rim for eight hours a day while an overhead camera filmed their movements and software mapped their positions and orientations. That’s what happens in nature, but no one had ever induced these shifts in the lab—at least not in animals. The answer turned out to be quite grisly. Today it’s not working.
How To Fathom Pi: Amazing Visual Illustrations Distribution of the first 123,201 digits of π mapped onto a red-yellow-blue Brewer palette and placed as circles on an Archimedean spiral by Martin Krzywinski Pi is, quite possibly, the most famous number known to man.* This fact is a little bit ironic, as we don’t actually have a number for pi. Well, not a complete number anyways, because pi never ends. If you try to pin it down to the decimal, you can’t do it—the decimal representation goes on endlessly, and it never settles into a repeating patters. Hence, all the fame. If you are unfamiliar with this number, pi is the mathematical constant that represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, and it is typically written as 3.14159 . However, (despite some minor set backs) the quest to understand pi continues. Recently, Cristian Ilies Vasile created an amazing way to visualize pi. This visual representation was created by a 41 year old individual who suffered brain damage after being attacked by muggers.
Why Apple Pay Is a Huge Milestone in Payments Breakthrough A service that makes it practical to use your smartphone as a wallet in everyday situations. Why It Matters Credit card fraud damages the economy by raising the costs of goods and services. Key Players Apple Visa MasterCard Google When Apple Pay was announced in September, Osama Bedier was unimpressed. Yet when Apple Pay launched just a few weeks later, Bedier was a convert. Momentum for mobile payment technologies was building even before Apple Pay debuted last fall. None of the individual technologies is novel, but Apple turned them into a service that is demonstrably easier than any other. But even if Apple didn’t invent mobile payments, it has significantly enhanced them. That doesn’t mean most of us will be ditching our wallets and waving phones in every store in 2015—far from it. Still, Apple has done a lot of things right, suggesting that Apple Pay will turn out to be a milestone. As a result, Apple is now cementing standards for the payment industry. —Robert D.