Unlike the regular round/square shaped cakes that have been around for centuries, some confectioners decided to focus on cakes that went above and beyond of what’s expected. They are crafting incredibly realistic looking cakes.
Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
Hank unravels the fascinating yarn of how the world came to use so-called Arabic numerals — from the scholarship of ancient Hindu mathematicians, to Muslim scientist Al-Khwarizmi, to the merchants of medieval Italy.
Some people live life on the edge every day and love every minute of it. They get a rush by taking on seemingly insurmountable challenges and beating the odds.
In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun’s rise toward solar maximum, the peak of solar activity in its regular 11-year cycle. This video shows those three years of the sun at a pace of two images per day.
Why anyone would wear these T-shirts?