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2014-01-29, 11:43 am
banana shipping containers

Fukushima Bananapocalypse

Imagine if an average-sized freighter, like any of the ones routinely waiting in English Bay, loaded with about 800 40' shipping containers of bananas were to sink off the coast of Japan. Would you be worried? Based on the amount of radioactive…

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  • Fukushima
  • radiation
  • math
  • science
  • bananas
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2009-08-31, 9:30 pm

Loonies are More Clever than You Might Think

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11-sided Loonie

When Loonies first came out in 1987 I was working for the Royal Bank of Canada and got to see them before they were officially released to the public. And having been a coin-collector, I examined the new coin with great interest…
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  • coins
  • Canada
  • math
  • geometry
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