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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.

Adolf Hitler The Steve Jobs Biopic Is Not Going To Be About Who We Thought It’s now becoming harder and harder to keep track of Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs biopic. Both Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale have pulled out of playing the titular character and now Aaron Sorkin has teased that the biopic will actually be as much about Steve Jobs’ daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, as much as it will revolve around the Apple Icon. Aaron Sorkin had previously revealed that whoever takes the lead role in his Steve Jobs film would star in every single frame, but that now only seems more interesting following recent remarks the writer made during an interview with The Independent. He has revealed that he was actually drawn to writing a film about Steve Jobs because of the entrepreneur’s relationship with his daughter. This was despite the fact that she wasn't interviewed for Walter Isaacson 2011 book, Steve Jobs, which was a big influence on the screenplay. Said Sorkin, while comparing the Steve Jobs biopic to the script for The Social Network,

A4 Papercuts Ogni scultura cartacea realizzata dall’artista Peter Callesen ha un unico punto di partenza: un candido e standardizzato foglio formato A4. Quello che accade dopo il “trattamento Callesen” lo potete vedere con i vostri occhi. Uccelli in procinto di spiccare il volo, scheletri che prendono vita… “The negative and absent 2 dimensional space left by the cut, points out the contrast to the 3 dimensional reality it creates, even though the figures still stick to their origin without the possibility of escaping“. Chapeau. [Via] Comments comments Oskar Schindler FreshPaint Irene 12 Enjoyable Names for Relatively Common Things Fancy yourself a logophile ... and didn't have to look up "logophile"? See if you know these 12 words for common things. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Getty Images 9. 10. 11. 12. What are some of your favorite extra ordinary/extraordinary words? For 12-12-12, we’ll be posting twenty-four '12 lists' throughout the day.

Hannah Arendt_La banalità del male images?q tbn:ANd9GcQDFHRBDYoMQfCmI1tMDdJ Gh lJ6lR6LcnNaTlR05RnkxCeX0eUc mFXON 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.

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