December 2011
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E-BIKES: M55 Creates Diamond and Gold-Encrusted...
Luxury bicycle manufacturer M55 just tipped the scales of wretched excess by releasing its new Terminus Royal and Terminus Prime line of e-bikes, which can be blinged out with Swarovski crystals, diamonds, and gold. The Royal line comes studded with gems and precious metals, and the ‘no-limit’ Prime line can be decked out with practically anything you can imagine. The company is marketing its...
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“Beauty without intelligence is a Masterpiece painted on a napkin.”
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GRAPHIC: 10 Posters Showing The Sweep And Grandeur...
Simon C. Page’s designs promoting the International Year of Chemistry are inspired by stories of intrepid researchers.
Did you know that 2011 is the International Year of Chemistry? Probably not—the somewhat cheesy video promoting it has only gotten 50,000 views in the last 11 months. Sometimes if you want to help get the word out about interesting science, you have to do it...
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MATH: Number Theory
Number theory is a vast and fascinating field of mathematics, sometimes called “higher arithmetic,” consisting of the study of the properties of whole numbers. Primes and prime factorization are especially important in number theory, as are a number of functions such as the divisor function, Riemann zeta function, and totient function. Excellent introductions to number theory may be...