Safari Live - Day 337 | National Geographic

Everest is one of the most extreme environments on the planet, and nobody has ever fully quantified the climate conditions up there. We’re going to be pushing the envelope, attempting to install the highest weather station in the world to improve our unde…

I am sorry. Those were the words uttered by AAR Rasin, the creator of the infinite scroll, after realizing his invention destroyed billions of people around the world. This one simple feature turned us into addicts. Is it too late for us to stop doom scro…

And the four of us came together about 6 months ago to work on software for small business owners, but we didn’t have a need at first. So we just went out and talked to all the small business owners we could find. After over a 100 interviews, we came acro…

Derek sent a chain letter to his friends, asking them to forward the letter to more friends. The group of people who receive the email gains 910 of its size every 3 weeks and can be modeled by a function P, which depends on the amount of time T in weeks. …

Anthony Denoon is analyzing his basketball statistics. The following table shows a probability model for the result from his next two free-throws, and so it has various outcomes of those two free-throws and then the corresponding probability: missing both…

Here are some facts about great white sharks: White sharks are live-birthed, usually in litters of between four and seven individuals. Now they’re called pups, but when they’re born, they’re between 1.2 and 1.5 meters! So that’s a pretty big baby. It take…