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The 2012 annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition landed on newsstands last week.  Break out 19-year-old model Kate Upton graced the cover of this year’s edition as well as the pages, along with several other supermodels such as Kirby Griffin and Cintia Dicker among others. Although the swimsuit models are often the stars of the show [...]

Most jewelry store customers visit their jeweler looking for gold, silver, or platinum jewelry, but now there is a new is a new metal that is making its way into the mainstream – Palladium.  Palladium, whose chemical symbol and atomic number are Pd and 46 respectively, is a rare and lustrous silver-white metal.  The discoverer [...]

What is it that attracts millions to the work of artists like M.C. Escher who are known for their obsessively precise, mathematically inspired, and geometric works of art? Escher, like other artists who played very deliberately with mathematical concepts to create his work, worked directly from structures in plane and projective geometry. The human eye [...]