The Week In Numbers: Humanity’s Last Common Ancestor, The Birth Of NASA, And More
180,000-200,000 years ago: the time when humanity’s last common male ancestor likely walked Earth 28.3 mph: the speed at which...
180,000-200,000 years ago: the time when humanity’s last common male ancestor likely walked Earth
28.3 mph: the speed at which Boston Dynamics’ Cheetah Robot can sprint (it is one of our 10 favorite athletic robots)
$300-$2,000: the money a 3-D printer could save you per year by printing household items
73,000: the number of images used to create this picture of an x-ray telescope shifting its gaze
X-Ray Slew Tracks
2,500: the estimated number of baseball bats that shattered in players hands in 2008 (thankfully, the U.S. Forest Service is on the case!)
Batter Up
112: the atomic number of the radioactive synthetic element Copernicium (see it on this beautiful periodic table, which uses no numbers or letters—only dots)
The Periodic Table of the Elements, by electronic structure
4.7 inches: the size of the screen on the new Google/Motorola Moto X smartphone, which is delightfully quiet
Motorola Moto X
8 percent: the portion of people in the UK who admit to taking creepshots of hot strangers in a recent survey
548: the number of images in a 2-minute video documenting the rover Curiosity’s first year on Mars
1958: the year President Eisenhower signed the bill that created NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958