Not surprisingly, Bill Gates went off on another of his nonsensical rants, this time taking dead aim at trees!
Turns out that during a recent interview with The New York Times, Gates went nuts over the prevailing narrative by climate change deniers that planting enough trees would offset the CO2 in the atmosphere and tame global warming. Gates’ response: “That’s complete nonsense. Are we the science people or are we the idiots.”
Jim Lee, visibly upset by Gates’ soliloquy, fires back in this animated episode of Climate Viewer.
“Fibonacci numbers are of interest to biologists and physicists because they are frequently observed in various natural objects and phenomena. The branching patterns in trees and leaves, for example, and the distribution of seeds in a raspberry are based on Fibonacci numbers.
A Sanskrit grammarian, Pingala, is credited with the first mention of the sequence of numbers, sometime between the fifth century B.C. and the second or third century A.D. Since Fibonacci introduced the series to Western civilization, it has had a high profile from time to time. Recently, in The Da Vinci Code , for example, the Fibonacci sequence is part of an important clue.”
In this episode of the Numberphile, Dr. Holly Krieger from Murray Edwards College at the University of Cambridge, outlines the mathematical sequences that under lay Fibonacci numbers.
And here, SerialBrain2 connects the dots, drawing upon the Fibonacci work in mathematics, physics and biology, to begin to show the intelligent design of galaxies and star systems, as well as some of the nefarious forces here on planet Earth that are intent to hold us back, to block our knowledge and to drive a wedge between mankind and our creator.
Autumn can be called our transitional month, ushering in mild temperatures, the holidays and the magical transformation of our deciduous trees and shrubs. The splendor of gold- and russet-colored leaves as trees prepare to bare their branches, gives us a fall spectacle like no other, prompting MinuteEarth host Henry Reich to say, “They are the world’s prettiest recycling plants.” But have you ever wondered why the leaves change color? Reich gives us a thorough scientific explanation.
Ancient trees are fascinating, but the answer to the question in the title isn’t as cut and dried as it might first seem. There are two major contenders for the superlative, and Hank Green has all the important information on both of them in this episode of SciShow. Which one would you give the title to?
