The Tech Landscape #108
In Buddhism the number of possible feelings is said to be calculated by multiplying the six senses (smell, touch, taste, hearing, sight, consciousness) by...
The Tech Landscape #107 💸
The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (6th Edition) lists 107 acceptable 2-letter words, from aa (rough basaltic lava) to za (slang for pizza). Some quite...
The Tech Landscape #106 📷
When completed in 2019 the 445 metre tall Marina 106 will be Dubai’s second tallest building, after the 828 metre Burj Khalifa. It will only hold that title...
The Tech Landscape #105 🤖
Alexander of Abonoteichus, born in 105 CE, was the leader of the cult of Glycon, a snake-god with a human head. The cult was alleged by the writer Lucian to...
The Tech Landscape #104 🍏
Ernest Rutherford, known as the ‘father of nuclear physics’, discovered the concept of radioactive half-life, among many other achievements. His name has...
The Tech Landscape #103 🛰
Before its retirement in 2011, the space shuttle Discovery flew 39 missions—the most of any spacecraft to date—and launched the Hubble space telescope. It’s...
The Tech Landscape #102
On 3rd January 2019 a new record was set in the US House of Representatives, when 102 women took the oath of office. An unexpectedly busy week for news—it...
The Tech Landscape 101
In George Orwell’s 1984, Room 101 is a torture chamber used to subject prisoners to “the worst thing in the world”: their own greatest fear. Orwell...
The Tech Landscape #100 🎂
Ten duotrigintillion is 10 to the power of 100, written as the numeral 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. It’s more commonly known as a googol, which was...
The Tech Landscape #99
In 1929 Amelia Earhart invited all 117 licensed women pilots in the US to join a new organisation for their mutual support and advancement. 99 of them...
The Tech Landscape #98
In Japan a mukoyōshi (婿養子) is an adult man adopted by a family with no male heir. The practice is centuries-old but continues today; a 2014 report said that...
The Tech Landscape #97
A 2013 meta-analysis of 4,000 peer-reviewed papers which expressed an opinion on the cause of global warming found that human activity was agreed to be the...
The Tech Landscape #96
The combined Apollo lunar missions brought back 380kg of moon rocks and dust. For the landers to return to Earth they had to leave behind a similar amount of...
The Tech Landscape #95
In 1926, California postman Rudolph Hass’s experiments with avocado seedlings created a new variety with wrinkled black skin and a more rich, oily taste than...
The Tech Landscape #94
The Austrian classical composer, Joseph Haydn, was famous for including jokes in his music. His Symphony Number 94 contains an unexpectedly loud chord in an...
The Tech Landscape #93
The earliest known example of the practice of dactylonomy, or counting on the fingers, came from ancient Persia. In that system the number 93 was represented...
The Tech Landscape #92
The Guiness world record of the longest placename is held by New Zealand’s...
The Tech Landscape #91
Kazakhstan’s biggest boy band, 91, were created in 2015. Their music genre, called Q-POP (Qazaq-pop), was created at the same time. There’s a fair bit of...
The Tech Landscape #90
Kepler-90 is the 90th star confirmed by the Kepler telescope to have a planetary system. The system contains the same number of planets as our own; the...
The Tech Landscape #89
Hellin’s Law states that about one in 89 natural pregnancies gives twins, one in 89 squared gives triplets, and one in 89 cubed gives quadruplets. Welcome to...