A dreadful hoax

Crash Course: World History

Crash Course: World History has completed its 42nd and final episode earlier today. A good end to an excellent series on the major events of human history. The series included 2000 years of chinese history in 12 minutes presented in a humorous, entraining, but educational manner (embedded above).

M of the M: November 2012

Mario of the Month for November. Picture found: here.

M of the M: October 2012

Mario of the Month for October. Found: here.

BoingBoing recently had an interesting post on the history of Monopoly and how it came from a socialist background.

Factorization visualized

I love this animated look at factorization. Let it get to the triple digits at least to see the real action. Shown above: 108 = 3 x 3 x 3 x 2 x 2