Leonardo Fibonacci was a mathematician who lived in Italy hundreds of years ago. Although the sequence was known to non-Westerners long before, during the 13th century it’s thought that Fibonacci ...

The same spiral has been found everywhere; in sunflower seeds and pinecones, snail shells and animal horns, and the placement of tree branches. The underlying numbers are found in the genealogy of ...

It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but what do a pine cone, a sunflower head, and a pineapple have in common? Your first thought may be an emphatic, “Nothing.” However, they all have a secret ...

I’m a big fan of rule of thirds photography, but this compositional technique is often deemed too simplistic or even boring. However, if you’re starting out on your photography journey, it’s a simple ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

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James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...