Simply Worldly

It's a BIG world out there!

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See the microscopic wonders of herbs

A photographer reveals the intricacies of kitchen herbs. The result is otherworldly.

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3(.14) Facts about Pi!

In order to celebrate Pi Day, we TED-Ed nerds are bringing you 3 fun facts about our favorite irrational number!

1. Pi is infinite! To write it out, you’d begin with 3.14159 and continue on….forever! That’s why, instead of trying to write out an infinite number of digits every time, we just refer to it using the Greek letter, Pi. 

2. Pi is an irrational number, or a number that can never be expressed as a ratio of 2 whole numbers.

3. Scientists have used Pi to calculate the density of our entire universe, which has infinitely less stuff in it than the total number of digits in Pi. 

From the TED-Ed Lesson The infinite life of pi - Reynaldo Lopes

Animation by Igor Coric

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Happy Pi Day, Tumblr!

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The Worst Way to Start a City - 99% Invisible

The area that is now Oklahoma was once a place called Indian Territory. Beginning in the 1800s, the U.S. government designated the land in the Great Plains as a place where it could force indigenous peoples in order to make room for American settlers as they pushed west. All of the routes on the Trail

Who were these settlers that became known as the “Sooners”

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You 2.0: The Value Of 'Deep Work' In An Age Of Distraction

Every time you give in to the buzzing notifications of our phone or computer, you pay a price: little by little, you lose your ability to focus.

Deep Work, have you tried it? 

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The Next Frontier

Colonizing Mars or more distant planets seems like science fiction. But becoming a spacefaring species may be in our near future. This hour, TED speakers on living beyond Earth--and whether we should.

I’ve never thought about this before...  How can we engineer the human body to survive on Mars?