Google provides many different services and products, but the ones I hear about most from my
non-technical friends and family are search (of course) and Google doodles. This week’s cool
doodle celebrated the work of origami master Akira
Yoshizawa, generally recognized as the inventor of modern origami. Yoshizawa worked
at a factory before deciding to spend all his time on origami. In a different era, if we were
very very lucky, maybe he would have been a doodler and come up with something like
this.
From folding paper to folding space: researchers at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory used neutrinos
to send a messagethrough matter to a detector located 1 km
away in a cavern. Because neutrinos rarely collide with other particles, the message was able
to pass through the Earth successfully. The team used a binary code to send the word
neutrino to the other side. And once again, science fiction becomes
fact, sort of.
Speaking of binary code, here’s something you can try over the weekend: on google.com, sign
out of your account (temporarily, of course) or click Hide personal
results, then search for binary and see how many results you
get.
Once a week we post a Fridaygram, in which we take a break from the real news and
have some fun. Each Fridaygram item must pass only one test: it has to be interesting to us
nerds. And by the way, it looks like we've made another great nerd movie recommendation this
week.
