‘British photographer Jimmy Nelson spent about three years documenting the lives of some of the world’s remotest tribes. He spent two weeks with each tribe, trying to understand and capture their way of life…’
Source: WebTokri
Day: April 29, 2017
Source: denis.md
An Ice-Free Summer in the Arctic Ocean Would Be Deadly for the Northern Hemisphere
New modeling suggests it could happen as soon as mid-century.
Source: Pacific Standard
The Kate Bush Conjecture
‘In her 2005 song “π,” Kate Bush sings the number π to its 78th decimal place, then jumps abruptly to the 101st and finishes at the 137th.The BBC’s More or Less advanced the “Kate Bush conjecture”: that the digits that Bush sings are contained somewhere in the decimal expansion of π — just not at the start.The conjecture is true if π turns out to be a “normal” number, meaning essentially that all possible sequences of digits (of a given length) appear equally often in its expansion.π hasn’t been proven to have this property, though it’s expected to be the case. So, for now, “The Kate Bush conjecture is plausible but unproven.” …’
Source: Futility Closet
