Happy Fifth Birthday, Instagram
My, how Instagram has grown. Launched five years ago today, the photo- and video-sharing platform has quickly become one of the world's top ten social media sites, after giants like its parent company, Facebook, as well as Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr. Valued at a whopping $35 billion, the platform has 400 million monthly active users who share 80 million photos and generate 3.5 billion likes each day. In honor of Instagram's big five, we’ve gathered five of our favorite posts from Popular Science's Instagram: 1. Neil deGrasse Tyson Vs. Frozen Banana Neil deGrasse Tyson posed for the front cover of our September issue as our guide on how to be an expert in anything. As part of his guide duties, he demonstrated some (literally) hard science by smashing a banana frozen with liquid nitrogen. 2. Step Aside, Hamilton Earlier this year the U.S. Treasury Department announced that beginning in...