Facts died Wednesday, April 18, after a long battle for relevancy with the 24-hour news cycle, blogs and the Internet.
R.I.P Facts
Gideon Sundback
On the 24th April 2012, the 132nd anniversary of Sundbäck’s birth, Google changed the Google logo on its homepage to a Google Doodle of the zipper, which when opened revealed the results of a search for Gideon Sundback.
Baby Eagles
First Egg Laid: 02/17/2012
First Hatch: 03/27/12
Second Hatch: 03/28/12
Third Hatch: 03/31/12
Benford’s Law
There is an entire industry specializing in forensic accounting and auditing which uses these phenomena to look for inconsistencies in data.
Coursera
We offer high quality courses from the top universities, for free to everyone.
Asteroid Retrieval and Mining
Retrieving an asteroid for human exploration and exploitation would provide a new rationale for global achievement and inspiration.
Fifth Avenue Frogger
The game takes on the world in real time.
Logical Fallacies
Super Slow Motion
Super slow motion highlights from Danish TV show “Dumt & Farlig“.
Majorana Fermions Detected
The discovery could confirm the theory that assumes that dark matter, which is thought to form about 73 percent of the Universe, is composed of Majorana fermions.