Cocunuts, Diamonds, Pain & Pregnancy tests for Cancer – TIL365: Week 3

#TIL Day 13: Coconut is the largest seed in the world. #TIL365 — Chandrahasa Reddy (@chandrahasa) January 13, 2014 #TIL Day 14: Penguin poop can be seen from space! #TIL365 — Chandrahasa Reddy (@chandrahasa) January 14, 2014   #TIL Day 15: A ‘Dolorimeter‘ is an instrument used to measure pain threshold and pain tolerance. #TIL365 … Read more

Panagrams, Botox, Iron & Warm Igloos – TIL365: Week 2

#TIL Day 6: Pangram is a sentence using every letter of the alphabet. http://t.co/te948Hds2y #TIL365 — Chandrahasa Reddy (@chandrahasa) January 6, 2014 #TIL Day 7: Botox is the most dangerous toxin known to man, it costs about £100 trillion per kilo to produce! http://t.co/xEAJHplCj8 #TIL365 — Chandrahasa Reddy (@chandrahasa) January 7, 2014   #TIL Day … Read more

Thoughts on Random

Random is defined as “lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance;” (wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn) I recently have been watching a few videos about the golden ratio. The videos have generally proclaimed the proof of the existence of god based on the existence of patterns in almost everything based on the … Read more

Pale Blue Dot

Image via Wikipedia Inspired by this post by “a simple prop“, I felt I had to repost the content of the post on my blog.  Personally I am in absolute awe of Carl Sagan and this quote(below) is exactly why I think so highly of him. It’s the twentieth anniversary of the famous “pale blue … Read more