Queen Elizabeth's first ever post on Instagram is blowing up which is totally impressive ... considering it's just a boring old, Old letter. QE2 didn't even remember to add #latergram or #throwbackthursday when she hit the share button. Naturally, there was plenty of royal fanfare for the moment ... they had an actual ceremony for it at London's Science Museum, and she got cheers and applause when a right proper English dude announced, "It's worked perfect." View this post on Instagram Today,...
- 3/7/2019
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Welcome to Instagram, Queen Elizabeth II! Her Majesty took to the social network via an iPad on Thursday to publish her first post on The Royal Family's account. In her Instagram debut, The Queen opened up about her visit to the Science Museum in London and shared a picture of an old letter sent to Prince Albert from mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage. "Today, as I visit the Science Museum I was interested to discover a letter from the Royal Archives, written in 1843 to my great-great-grandfather Prince Albert," she explained. "Charles Babbage, credited as the world's first computer pioneer, designed the 'Difference Engine', of which Prince Albert had the...
- 3/7/2019
- E! Online
Den of Geek Staff Sep 26, 2018
S.L. Huang, author of science fiction thriller Zero Sum Game, finds inspiration in the female mathematicians who have come before.
This is a guest post from S.L. Huang, debut author of Zero Sum Game, a near-future science fiction thriller about a math-genius mercenary named Cas Russell.
As part of Tor’s #FearlessWomen campaign, and as the author of a near-future thriller that’s about an anti-heroine whose superpower is doing math really, really fast—and who uses it to kill a few too many people—I want to talk about #FearlessWomen in mathematics!
The real ones, that is.
I’ve loved math since before I could remember. And since I was little, one of my favorite things has also been reading up on the biographies and personal lives of mathematicians. Did you think mathematicians were all emotionless logicians? Heck no! Mathematicians are some of the most fascinating,...
S.L. Huang, author of science fiction thriller Zero Sum Game, finds inspiration in the female mathematicians who have come before.
This is a guest post from S.L. Huang, debut author of Zero Sum Game, a near-future science fiction thriller about a math-genius mercenary named Cas Russell.
As part of Tor’s #FearlessWomen campaign, and as the author of a near-future thriller that’s about an anti-heroine whose superpower is doing math really, really fast—and who uses it to kill a few too many people—I want to talk about #FearlessWomen in mathematics!
The real ones, that is.
I’ve loved math since before I could remember. And since I was little, one of my favorite things has also been reading up on the biographies and personal lives of mathematicians. Did you think mathematicians were all emotionless logicians? Heck no! Mathematicians are some of the most fascinating,...
- 9/26/2018
- Den of Geek
Ryan Lambie Jul 15, 2016
How does Star Trek Into Darkness's plot hold up three years on? Ryan takes a closer look...
Nb: The following contains spoilers for Star Trek Into Darkness and Prometheus.
It's often the case that post-screening conversations are as much fun as the cinema visit itself. Whether a film's good or bad, sitting and dissecting a movie over a drink or during the car journey home is as much a part of the theatre-going experience as buying popcorn or the joyful sense of anticipation as the lights go down.
Sometimes, it's the most bewildering movies that provoke the most enjoyable discussions. I can still remember the exchanges I had with a friend after watching 2012's Prometheus: why did Rafe Spall tickle that evil-looking space snake? Why did Old Man Weyland hide aboard a ship that was his in the first place? Why didn't Charlize Theron run...
How does Star Trek Into Darkness's plot hold up three years on? Ryan takes a closer look...
Nb: The following contains spoilers for Star Trek Into Darkness and Prometheus.
It's often the case that post-screening conversations are as much fun as the cinema visit itself. Whether a film's good or bad, sitting and dissecting a movie over a drink or during the car journey home is as much a part of the theatre-going experience as buying popcorn or the joyful sense of anticipation as the lights go down.
Sometimes, it's the most bewildering movies that provoke the most enjoyable discussions. I can still remember the exchanges I had with a friend after watching 2012's Prometheus: why did Rafe Spall tickle that evil-looking space snake? Why did Old Man Weyland hide aboard a ship that was his in the first place? Why didn't Charlize Theron run...
- 7/14/2016
- Den of Geek
It’s only fitting that today’s Google Doodle honors Ada Lovelace — the woman widely recognized as the world’s first computer programmer.
The web giant celebrates the tech pioneer’s 197th birthday with an image of “the enchantress of numbers” writing the first computer algorithm beside machines she helped design that were considered forerunners to the modern computer.
Born Augusta Ada Byron, Lovelance was poet Lord George Gordon Byron’s only legitimate child. After her parents separated soon after her birth, her mother Anne Isabella “Annabella” Milbanke tutored her in science instead of literature in order to strip her...
The web giant celebrates the tech pioneer’s 197th birthday with an image of “the enchantress of numbers” writing the first computer algorithm beside machines she helped design that were considered forerunners to the modern computer.
Born Augusta Ada Byron, Lovelance was poet Lord George Gordon Byron’s only legitimate child. After her parents separated soon after her birth, her mother Anne Isabella “Annabella” Milbanke tutored her in science instead of literature in order to strip her...
- 12/10/2012
- by Maane Khatchatourian
- EW.com - PopWatch
Been wondering who the woman being honored by the Google Doodle today is? Turns out she actually is one of the people responsible for giving us computers to begin with.
Augusta Ada King, the Countess of Lovelace also known as Ada Lovelace, was born on Dec. 10, 1815. She was a member of British society in the 1800s who is credited as being the world's first true computer programmer. The mathematician was known mostly for her work on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer. Though it was first described in 1837, the unit was never built until over a century later.
Among her notes, Lovelace created an algorithm meant to be processed by the machine. The program, credited as being the first of its kind, was planned to be used to solve certain mathematical problems. A quote from her notes also pointed in the direction of the use of digital music today,...
Augusta Ada King, the Countess of Lovelace also known as Ada Lovelace, was born on Dec. 10, 1815. She was a member of British society in the 1800s who is credited as being the world's first true computer programmer. The mathematician was known mostly for her work on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer. Though it was first described in 1837, the unit was never built until over a century later.
Among her notes, Lovelace created an algorithm meant to be processed by the machine. The program, credited as being the first of its kind, was planned to be used to solve certain mathematical problems. A quote from her notes also pointed in the direction of the use of digital music today,...
- 12/10/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
The Bond boffin becomes a trendy, cardigan-wearing techie in Skyfall. It's not hard to see why geeks have gone mainstream
Perhaps nothing shows the evolution of the modern geek quite so well as the stalwart of the James Bond franchise, Q – mainly because it missed out most of the steps along the way.
For decades, Q represented the most traditional British form of geekdom: the boffin – a middle-aged man obsessed with slightly naff gadgets, working from the hi-tech equivalent of a shed, an exasperated comic foil to our suave protagonist.
Then, for a time in recent years, as the Bond films tried to throw off their dated image to be reborn as 21st-century cool, Q simply disappeared. We had no mid-30s, trainspotting Qs, nor an overweight Q working from his mother's basement.
Q skipped the unflattering representations of nerds altogether, returning only in the latest instalment as, essentially, the...
Perhaps nothing shows the evolution of the modern geek quite so well as the stalwart of the James Bond franchise, Q – mainly because it missed out most of the steps along the way.
For decades, Q represented the most traditional British form of geekdom: the boffin – a middle-aged man obsessed with slightly naff gadgets, working from the hi-tech equivalent of a shed, an exasperated comic foil to our suave protagonist.
Then, for a time in recent years, as the Bond films tried to throw off their dated image to be reborn as 21st-century cool, Q simply disappeared. We had no mid-30s, trainspotting Qs, nor an overweight Q working from his mother's basement.
Q skipped the unflattering representations of nerds altogether, returning only in the latest instalment as, essentially, the...
- 11/2/2012
- by James Ball
- The Guardian - Film News
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