Math Quiz

There are some unusual sound design tricks at play in Minecraft. For instance, Enderman’s speech is created by recording innocuous phrases in English like “what’s up” and then playing them backward or lowering the pitch.

The arrival of autumn affects some animals in some pretty interesting ways. Take the black-capped chickadee, for example. When autumn arrives, the bird goes crazy, collecting seeds and hiding them in hundreds of different places. The bird’s hippocampus (a part of the brain) grows by up to 30 percent, as new nerve cells responsible for spatial memory and organization form!

Are you a fan of James Bond? If so, you should know that there’s no 007 film where you see Roger Moore running. Moore felt too awkward running for the camera, so all the legwork was done by body doubles. Moore retired from playing Bond in 1985 because he felt he was too old for the part.