The Week In Numbers: How Cats See The World, The Speed Of Elephant Pee, And More
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 18:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Cat Vision Nickolay Lamm 200 degrees: the visual field of a cat (humans see just 180 degrees) 42.3 gallons: the volume an elephant can urinate in a single go 20 seconds: about how long it takes nearly all mammals to empty their bladders, according to the Law of Urination $600: the price of a set of 3-D printed titanium horseshoes 3-D Printed Horseshoes CSIRO $1.79: the monthly fee to own a Retrievor, a quarter-sized GPS tracking device you can stick to basically anything 1,257 pounds: the weight of the meteorite fragment that divers recently recovered from a Russian lake $10,000: the prize an MIT engineering team just won to further develop a thermal wristband that keeps its wearer at the perfect temperature Wristify MIT Department...