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“Emoji Nation” by Nastya Nudnik: Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5 are also amusing.

Awesome movie poster mashups - sadly a small list :)

In celebration of Pi Day (3-14), here’s a neat little article on pi, and how it helped Archimedes to develop a method still in use today: Aside from laying the groundwork for calculus, Archimedes taught us the power of approximation and iteration. He bootstrapped a good estimate into a better one, using more and more straight pieces to approximate a curved object with increasing accuracy. More than two millennia later, this strategy matured into the modern field of “numerical analysis.” ...

Twenty strangers meet and kiss on camera for the first time. I’m amazed how intimate some of these get for a first kiss between strangers.

Holy crap, this is a scary theory - a known structural defect on 777s could have slowly caused decompression that disoriented and then left passengers on MH370 unconscious: A structural failure related to the flaw could not only have led to a slow decompression that left the 239 passengers and crew on the missing flight unconscious, it would also have disabled satellite communications, including the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), which transmits data of the plane’s location automatically. ...