Plural of Octopus= Octopuses, Octopi, or Octopodes?

This video answers the common misconceptions about the plural of this bizarre english word (among others ending with "us").

Lego Turing Machine

A Turing machine made out of Lego! Link via the inimitable BoingBoing. Image via the inimitable xkcd, wonder cartoon of the Geeks.

IBM Sequoia Tops the Supercomputer Top500 List

The Top500 fastest computers, a list released today, offically announces the new fastest supercomputer: IBM Sequoia. This supercomputer is capable of 16.325 petaflops or 16 325 000 000 000 000 (1.6325*10^16) FLOPS (floating-point calculations)-- every second. Image found: here.

10 000 Interesting Numbers & Graham's Number

Most numbers have some special characteristic, there is a list of one interesting fact for the numbers additive identity of 0 to the Kaprekar number 9999. This list can be found at What's Special About This Number?. On a vaguely related topic, the largest finite integer used for a mathematical solution is Graham's Number-- a number that makes a Googolplex seem like a single quark in the greatness of the Universe, no joke.

M of the M

Mario of the Month for the month of June 2012. Photo found: here.

Flerovium and Livermorium

Elements #114 and #116 have been officially named Flerovium and Livermorium, respectively by the IUPAC. These elements are both superheavy (on an atomic scale) and both synthetic-- they are not known to exist in the natural world. For more information consulte the press release from IUPAC. Photo found: here.