The Para-Rigger

How the Average triumphed over the Median

http://priceonomics.com/how-the-average-triumphed-over-the-median/

Dramatic Scenery of China's Gansu Province

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/10/the-dramatic-landscape-of-chinas-gansu-province/411736/

The Math behind Beethoven's Music

http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/the-math-behind-beethovens-music.html

Happy Square Root Day (4/4/16)

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/04/square_root_day_4416_the_final.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/04/daily-chart

"Ice cream consumption, it seems, has a strong relationship with reading ability, based on the OECD's PISA educational performance scores."

Mathematician solves centuries-old problem of sphere-packing in higher dimensions

http://www.wired.com/2016/04/mathematician-solves-centuries-old-sphere-problem-higher-dimensions/

Perpetual Motion Machine

More on this here:

http://www.wired.com/2016/04/physics-behind-another-bogus-perpetual-motion-machine/

The Girlfriend's Math Lesson

Award-Winning Glass-Blowing Techniques Documentary from 1958

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/03/glas-glassblowing-documentary/?mc_cid=20080b7724&mc_eid=03de958b93

Corning, New York is in the middle of nowhere...but it has the world's absolute-best glass museum. A period piece from every year from Cleopatra on. Not to mention the 200-inch failed blank for Caltech's Palomar observatory. Plan to spend a few hours there, minimum!