From the coldest cold to the hottest hot, here’s all the universe’s temperatures.
(from BBC Future)
Bonus question: What is hotter, a boiling tea kettle or an iceberg?
Iceland’s sublime silence
A Canadian photographer turns her fascination with Iceland into a series celebrating the country’s raw and wondrous landscape
Eleven Interactive Fractals in 2D & 3D
I made a gif animation of the Binomial Cube. :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_sensorial_materials
http://hyrodium.tumblr.com/post/85901458594/do-you-know-the-maria-montessori-method-of-education
Having been lucky enough to travel on numerous roads like this last summer, I'm pretty sure I remember being genuinely and irrationally afraid of this exact thing happening. I have no clue why.
You know, many people think that mathematics is so complicated. This is wrong. Mathematics is an extremely simple approximation of the world. The world itself is more complicated than anything we can think of.
Cédric Villani, 2010 Fields Medal winner for “his work on developing equations to describe the movement of gas and plasma” [Science Show] (via we-are-star-stuff)
This map shows the percent of residents of each state who own passports.
56.839551,118.121181
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
(via brittbutterfly21)
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