“Hey, look! There’s a big container of coins. I wonder if there’s any 1964 quarters in there.” That’s how it started and here’s how it ended. A short history of US coins Maybe you already know this, but I will ...

Everyone loves standardized tests, right? They are just super awesome in my book. SUPER AWESOME. Here in Louisiana there is the LEAP test. I don’t know all the details, but I think students have to have some minimum score in ...

Check out this short clip from the next Captain America movie: The Winter Soldier from Yahoo. At the end, Cap throws his shield at the Winter Soldier – because that’s what Captain America does. But wait! The Winter Soldier just ...

It seems that the primary objective of the Lucretius, ver. 21c blog is to compile statistics on the twitter accounts of the top physicists, philosophers, and astronomers. Occasionally, there are posts that show the growth of different accounts. In particular, ...

Happy Pi Day to you and everyone around you! I always like to find something cool to do with pi on Pi Day. What if I just try to determine the value of pi without using pi (which seems obvious). ...

I am moderately pumped up about the next Captain America movie: The Winter Soldier. The above clip is pretty exciting. It shows Cap jumping out of an aircraft without a parachute and then landing in water. Clearly this isn’t something ...