Zero
Hi folks, This week we are going to tell you a few words about the history and importance of... nothing. Well, not quite of "nothing" really... more like about the notion of "zero" actually. But we'v ...
GPS episode 2 : The Empire Strikes Back
Hi folks, In the first part of our brief story of GPS we told you how latitude and longitude values got to be determined. This made the great European powers to become even greater, allowing them to ...
GPS episode 1: The Phantom Menace
Hi folks, Today we are going to tell you the first part of a short story about the Global Positioning System (GPS), just a brief historical preamble before our next article describing what GPS is and ...
ORPALIS MICR demo released. So what’s MICR?
Hi folks, The "leaks" in our first article of 2014 are now officially confirmed, the ORPALIS MICR demo has just been released. Wonder what MICR is all about? Perfect! Because that's what we basically ...
Calendars – The Needed Arbitraries
Hi folks, And again, we wish you an excellent New Year! This first article of 2014 continues our last article of 2013 which tried to explain how humankind got to name and organize time cycles based o ...
Written in the Stars
Hi folks, This is our last article of the year and for today we thought about explaining why years change on January 1st or why the years counting will very soon get to 2014. But before that let us t ...