The Story of Numbers (0 and 1) Indian Numerals or Arabic?

Terry Jones ("Monte Python's Flying Circus") tells the story of of numbers.  The story of numbers is the story of civilization.

Interesting facts:

• Baudhayana gave the 'Pythagoras theorem' centuries before the Greeks in 800 BC.
• Pingala (400 BC) invented the binary number system which is the basic of computer operations.
• Indian astronomer, Aryabhatta was the first to have propounded the theory that the earth was a sphere in the 5th century.
• Indian astronomer, Brahmagupta, estimated in the 7th century that the circumference of the earth was 5,000 yojanas.  A yojana is around 4.47 miles.  Calculating on this basis we see that the estimate of 22,369 miles as the earths circumference comes quite close to the actual circumference known today (24,901 miles).

Wool

If you are in to science fiction, you may want to check out a hot selling e-book on Amazon.com titled "Wool."  The novelist made more than $1 million before his book hit the stores.  Click here to read how all this came about.

Austria's Healing Caves Offer Radioative Miracle Cure

The Healing Caves of Gastein in Austria is the largest pain management center in the world.  The prescribed therapy uses radioactive radon gas.  Maybe there is something else going on here. Years ago I read about a similar facility in Colorado, but it may no longer exist.

WhatsApp

Apparently, WhatsApp is the largest social network you've never heard of.  Using this app, you can send free messages (text, images, audio, and video) to anyone with WhatsApp on their smartphone.  Texts messages on my iPhone in my phone plan cost me 25 cents a pop, therefore, I'm not much of a texter.  WhatsApp may change all of this.  Read more here at MHP Communications and check it out.

Safer Nuclear Power, At Half The Price

An MIT spin-off company called Transatomic has designed a molten salt nuclear power reactor that can essentially be fabricated in a factory and brought to the power plant site with construction cost about half of a conventional power reactor.  The downside is that it will necessitate new NRC regulations.  China appears to be ahead of the game with this technology.