A woman blames her poor math skills for a crime spree? Yes, it’s true! “A contestant of The Bachelor New Zealand has been sentenced after she admitted stealing more than $12,000 from her employer and a social organisation. The woman, aged 31, appeared today at Invercargill District Court after pleading guilty to five counts of theft […]
Einstein’s brain weighed 2.7 lb, while the average male brain weighs 3 lb.
This question was given to some 13 year old students in India. They had to provide proof with their answer: Answer will be posted in Post Support soon
Some 500 hours’worth of video is uploaded every minute to Google-owned video sharing platform YouTube. Every year, tweets, social media posts, online banking and the rest produce an aggregate number of digital bits equivalent to ten with 21 zeros after it. The digital footprint is so large that it is difficult to comprehend. Melvin Vopson of […]
The International Space Station (ISS) moves fast—very fast! The modular space station has an orbital speed of 7.66 kilometers per second, which is roughly 17,100 mph. It takes the ISS a mere 92.68 minutes to orbit Earth, meaning it goes around Earth nearly 16 times per day. (This image was taken in 2000 and shows […]
Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, is auctioning off his invention’s source code as an NFT. Although the groundbreaking code has long been in the public domain, the British computer scientist has now authorized the sale of a single edition of his original time-stamped files. Comprising over 9.500 lines of code, the files contain the […]
These Algebra Puzzles seem to crop up from time to time. However, if you are following the rules of operations (see BEMA post), the logic rules and the answer is easy. A reminder: B E M A means we solve in this order—Brackets first, then Exponents (or powers. There are none in this question); Multiplication/Division; […]
