Rick Mabry and Paul Deiermann are mathematicians.
Rick and Paul also love pizza.
While this does not prove that all those who love pizza are mathematicians, it does prove that all mathematicians love pizza.
And why not? Pizza offers the ultimate eating question: HOW CAN YOU SLICE A PIZZA TO ENSURE THAT ALL PRESENT WILL RECEIVE THE EXACT SAME AMOUNT OF PIZZA?
This was the problem that Rick and Paul set out to find: to determine how to create a PERFECT SLICE OF PIZZA.
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You wake up every morning and wander down to the local Starbucks outlet and order yourself a double-shot half-mocha latte with extra whip, just to get yourself going. You have a big day ahead, don’t you?
Everyone knows that if you cut back on those $4 fancy coffee drinks every day and brew your own, you’d save yourself about $1000 a year, give or take.
But what people aren’t talking about is how much fat you’re putting into your pants if you just take the drink and plop your ass into the office chair for the rest of the day.
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The Internet today is certainly faster than the Internet of 20 years ago.
Web Watch remembers using a 2400 baud modem to connect to what was the ‘net back in the day – and that was considered lightning fast for the time. (Sadly, Web Watch still has that modem in the back closet, just in case our broadband connection dies and we have to resort to connecting to the net the old-fashioned way.)
We eventually got 19,200 baud, and later 56k modems – everyone thought that was as fast as the Internet could possibly go at the time. We were transferring files in hours instead of days, and that was good enough for us.
But with broadband and wireless everywhere, transferring large amounts of data has become an everyday activity – but some transfers can still take a while to process.
With that in mind, some enterprising scientists decided to see exactly how long it would take to transfer a large file across the Internet, and compare that to the landspeed of some animals to see which was faster.
Have you ever wondered exactly how big germs were, relative to the real world?
Thanks to the people at the University of Utah, we now know.
Just go to the CELL SIZE AND SCALE application to see what things look like at actual size.
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The LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS has put together a report entitled Fewer Emitters, Lower Emissions, Less Cost that draws what should be an obvious conclusion:
Global warming isn’t an environmental thing, or a byproduct solely due to advanced technology or corporate carbon emissions.
Global warming is due to there being too many damn people in the world. More people means more manufacturing and excessive gas or bad breath all contributing harm to the environment.
Their solution? Stop breeding.
It’s true. And you know it.
You see them every day at the office or at the house. Maybe you’re even married to one who claims to be more successful than you are because they’re a “multitasker”. They can do more things before breakfast than you’ll do all day.
Oh, la-di-freakin’ dah.
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If you are a woman suffering from brittle bones or osteoporosis, then science may have uncovered the best news you’ve ever heard:
“Drink beer”
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Why do McGriddles, that tasty treat from McDonald’s that consists of egg, cheese, and bacon lovingly wrapped around two syrup-soaked pancakes, taste so good – and as a result, makes us happy?
It may surprise you that a STUDY ON THE NEUROSCIENCE OF MCGRIDDLES has shown that our happiness about McGriddles is not related at all with the taste of the McGriddle. McDonald’s could serve us cardboard-wrapped cardboard, and it would be happily accepted just as well (assuming it was edible, of course).
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