Archive for the ‘Educational’ Category

Bread is delicious. You know what the best kind of bread is? FRESH bread! You can read the full article here. Even snopes says it’s true! via

Considering they’re the only REALLY education-based channel, keeping them around sounds like a good thing. via

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I think this is pretty cool. Most people have no idea how far away the moon is. I didn’t. If the Earth were the size of a basketball and the moon a tennis ball, how far apart would they be? Diagrams that are not to scale make us think that they’re closer than they really [...]

A few fine gents play Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee. I found this video cool. Lotsa sounds from the same type of bottle. As of time of posting, the video has 363,522 hits.

This guy is one crazy guy.This story is from The Daily Mail. You can click here to read the interesting story.

We all know the debt is big. I just had no idea practically how large it is when you compare it to just about anything on earth. This guy knows, apparently. Economics professor Antony Davies illustrates the size the U.S. federal government’s debt and unfunded obligations. He breaks down the total U.S. debt and obligations [...]

Obviously this isn’t aimed at identifying what everyone looks like, but I find the choices of photos pretty accurate as it relates to the basic “type” of face they might have. via

I love these word cloud thingies. “President Obama’s 2011 State Of The Union” from here.

OK, so here’s the thing. We knew that computers can have more knowledge than humans. What we didn’t know (for sure) was if a computer could figure out the wordplay and punnery associated with Jeopardy and calculate the correct answer question. Apparently the results of the trial run showed that computers are far superior. IBM’s [...]