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A newly discovered species of lichen from the rain forests of Ecuador proves that you don’t have to be a magic mushroom to contain psilocybin. It is the first and only lichen known to incorporate t…

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Ever wanted to jumpkick Isaac Newton as Albert Einstein?

Science Kombat lets you do just that.

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Is zero a number? Was it always a number?

Today, zero has two roles: First, as a placeholder within our number system, representing an absence of a value. It allows us to create huge numbers without extra digits. Its second role is as a number in its own right, in between -1 and 1. We can subtract, add, multiply by 0… but dividing gets tricky. I mean, you can’t divide 1 chicken by 0 chickens:

(You might think the answer would be infinity chickens, but it’s not, as infinity is a concept, not a number)

Most ancient civilisations developed some sort of number system to keep track of things, and they are all thought to have had a general concept of zero.

And when the Indians began developing a number system (the one that evolved into what we use today), zero was first explicitly born, with 9 number symbols and a dot to represent the absence of a number.

In the 7th Century, Brahmagupta developed terms for zero in addition, subtraction and division… though he struggled a bit with that last one.

Over time, the mathematics of India matured and spread outwards. But it found resistance in Europe, in particular against the established Roman numeral system.

But by the 13th century academics like Fibonacci were championing zero, helping it gain a solid foothold across Europe:

Zero went on to form the cornerstone of calculus, which allowed anyone to break down dynamic systems into smaller and smaller units approaching zero, but never quite getting there, avoiding the tricky problem of dividing by zero.

More recently, the binary numerical system formed the basis of the computer system and zero’s importance shone once more.

So maybe it really is possible to get something from nothing. Watch the full animation on our YouTube channel here.

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Dracula may be a vampire with supernatural abilities, but he’s no dummy.

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I don’t necessarily work ‘better under pressure’, I just literally will not work until I am under the extreme pressure of time constraints created by my own unnecessary procrastination

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By Erich J Moffitt

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“L'amour ne périt jamais”

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It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you’ve made, and there’s this panic because you don’t know yet the scale of disaster you’ve left yourself open to.

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (via larmoyante)