Math Quiz

Dmitri Mendeleyev presented his periodic table of elements at the Russian Chemical society on March 6, 1869. His table was based on increasing atomic weight. It was not, however, the first attempt at organizing the elements. In 1864, Lothar Meyer published a table with the placement of 28 elements.

It took a mere three weeks for Microsoft to sell its first one million units of Xbox after the console’s release. Did you know that it would take about 485 billion Xbox 360’s, laid side-by-side, to construct a bridge to the sun? A pretty useless fact, but interesting nonetheless!

Einstein was an exceptional human being – and his brain was out of the ordinary, too! A study found that his parietal lobe was 15% larger than average. That’s the region of the brain that is responsible for mathematical thought and spatial cognition.