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Is the world’s oldest protractor sitting in a museum in Turin?
Physicist Amelia Sparavigna thinks she has solved the mystery of a wooden box that was found over 100 years ago in the tomb of an architect from ancient Egypt, but is her theory correct?
New Scientist has a nice article with [...]
This YouTube video seems to show a working version of M.C. Escher’s famous impossible waterfall painting. If you look carefully, you can see a copy of the painting in the bottom right hand corner of the video.
What do you think?
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Happy New Year! I hope 2011 is a happy and successful year for you.
By the way, did you know that 2011 is a prime number?
It is also the sum of eleven consecutive prime numbers:
157 + 163 + 167 + 173 + 179 + 181 + 191 + 193 [...]
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