The price of getting married in China is skyrocketing. This guy spent the price of a house for a rock! Instead of selecting a precious stone to mount on a ring, a man in far western China has proposed to his girlfriend by unveiling a 33-tonne “meteorite” placed in a public square, a news website […]
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Why airline classes are priced the way they are
The vast majority of an airline’s revenue comes from a minority of their customers. But first class is going away… This article originally appeared at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB5xtGGsTc.
Supersonic Planes Are Mounting a Comeback—Without That Earth-Shaking Boom
Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It’ll Be Gone
Prof Robert Kelly is back & this time his wife & children are meant to be in shot!
Professor Robert E Kelly has returned to BBC News to talk about his unexpected viral fame last week, when his children crashed his live TV interview to the amusement of millions of people who later watched the clip. Prof Kelly, an expert on South Korea, was joined in the follow-up video with his wife, Jung-a […]
Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein!
The famous German scientist Albert Einstein would have turned 138 years old today. Einstein, who passed away in 1955, is best known for his theory of general relativity and his mass-energy equivalence formula, E = mc^2. Coincidentally, Einstein’s birthday falls on Pi Day. Next month, the National Geographic Channel will premiere its new 10-part […]
This Woman Is Said to Rival Einstein, and She’s Only 23
At age 14, Sabrina Pasterski walked onto the MIT campus to request notarization of aircraft worthiness for her single-engine plane. She built it herself and had already flown the craft solo, so even within the bastion of brilliance that is MIT, people were interested. Nine years have passed, and now Pasterski is an MIT graduate […]
