Gifts for physicists

Without a measuring jug, we would be lost in the kitchen! Cooking is always possible without precise measurements, but when it comes to baking, we ...

Sure, it's easier to work with natural numbers in everyday life. But the really cool numbers, which have made math history and led to all kinds of ...

As nerds, we love clever puns that are not immediately understandable to outsiders. We are particularly fond of the number pi, which seems to lurk ...

There are many important scientists in physics who should be taken as examples. But often overlooked are the smallest of the small in the world of ...

This sobering choice of words by the Borg before assimilation illustrates the advantages of a collective consciousness and the knowledge shared by ...

If you ask a physicist what the most important of all sciences is, he will undoubtedly answer "physics". If you take a closer look at the sub-areas...

The most famous cat in the world is not an internet phenomenon, but the imaginary cat of physicist Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961). His famous though...

The cake is a Pi(e)! Mathematicians with a basic knowledge of English will know: The complicated-looking formula symbols on the pie plate are prono...

It is amazing what masterpieces the human brain is capable of. Not only is it the organ that has secured our place at the top of the food chain, it...

Ever since The Big Bang Theory, we know that Erwin Schrödinger's thought experiment is not only an excellent way to illustrate the superposition pr...

Admittedly, math has such a bad reputation with most people that even indoor halma and synchronized crochet seem more popular. As someone who feels...

All things are poison and nothing without poison - only the dose makes a thing not poison. - ParacelsusThis saying by the wise Paracelsus became "T...

The circumference of a circle is two pies times the radius. Only understood the station? That's hardly surprising. After all, jokes are notoriously...

No matter how much you want something, some things simply cannot be combined. Fire and water, good and evil or even a root with a negative number. ...

It will probably forever remain the prerogative of older generations to complain about younger generations and how much harder it supposedly was in...

Whether from George Orwell's novel 1984, Soviet propaganda or Radiohead's song of the same name, most people are familiar with the (false) equation...

Two things are infinite: the number of decimal places of the number Pi and the average nerd's hunger for sweets and pastries. Of course we had to c...