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Pi Day!

02, March 15, 2010
Pi Day!

(Pi by Mykl Roventine) The 14th March (3/14 in American date notation) has over recent years become Pi day because …Read the Rest

Even an Ancient Egyptian Mummy needs a passport!

…AND DID YOU PACK YOUR CASE YOURSELF, SIR? The ancient Egyptian mummy of famous King Rameses the Great, or Rameses …Read the Rest

The Antikythera – a 2000 year old computer!

From second-century BC Greece, the Antikythera is a mechanical computer that, in terms of complexity, was 1,500 years ahead of …Read the Rest

Best available evidence reveals that Christmas trees were originally hung upside down from ceilings, rather than sitting the right way …Read the Rest

Heartburn makes hairy babies!

49, December 2, 2009

Researchers from John Hopkins university studying 64 pregnant women in Baltimore, found that 23 of the 28 who suffered heartburn …Read the Rest

Blue Moon – 31st December 2009

This month is a blue moon month! Commonly speaking, we call a moon ‘blue’ when there are two full moons …Read the Rest

David McCandless (Information Is Beautiful .net) prepares interesting diagrams to present information and statistics in an accessible way. This one …Read the Rest

As widely reported this week in the Daily Mail,  abc , msn and other news media, a man in Belgium …Read the Rest

You would be forgiven for thinking that tigers, although endangered, would be most prevalent in their native lands of India, …Read the Rest

How to decontaminate nuclear power stations for a few British pounds…

In 2009 it was revealed that Dounreay nuclear power station in Caithness, Scotland is using a household cleaning product, Cillit …Read the Rest

This is a grammatically correct sentence: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Amazingly, eight buffalo’s in a row …Read the Rest

Like a complete unknown…

56, September 3, 2009

Maybe we here at IF are getting on a bit, but we find the following account reported in The Telegraph …Read the Rest