Guglielmo Marconi

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909 was awarded jointly to Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun “in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy.”

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Z Proportions

Becca Hirsbrunner photographed this fabulously constructed Z proportions letter. Interestingly, every element but the diagonal bar can be rationalized.

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Math Textbook with Cat Pictures

Sheldon Axler is a funny math professor and he put his cats' pictures into his math textbook, Precalculus: A Prelude to Calculus.

NASA Scientists in 1961

In 1961 NASA scientists worked hard to send an American astronaut to the moon. And we have this beautiful photo from those days.

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Mandelbrot Island

When Alexis Monnerot-Dumaine rendered Mandelbrot set as an island using the fractal-based landscape generator, Terragen, he got this Mandelbrot island.