Fact of the Day: Fri-03-Sep-2021

Fact of the Day: 03/09/2021 Yesterday’s fact explored RGB or RGBA as common ways to represent colors. Another commonly used color type is called hex (short for hexadecimal). This type of code consists of a hash symbol (#) followed by six digits, which may be letters...

Fact of the Day: Thu-02-Sep-2021

Fact of the Day: 02/09/2021 Did you know that there are multiple ways to specify a color? You can name the color—for example, “white”—or you can use a color type to specify to a computer which color to render. RGB (or RGBA) is a common way to express colors, and it is...

Fact of the Day: Wed-01-Sep-2021

Fact of the Day: 01/09/2021 Differential calculus may sound like a difficult subject, but its premise is actually simple.  We usually associate slopes with lines; however, using calculus, we can also find the slope of curves like parabolas. Since the steepness of...

Fact of the Day: Tue-31-Aug-2021

Fact of the Day: 31/08/2021 Have you ever seen a doctor tap someone’s knee with a small rubber hammer, and wondered exactly what the doctor is doing and why?  When doing this reflex test, doctors target a specific area of the knee just below the kneecap known as the...

Fact of the Day: Mon-30-Aug-2021

Fact of the Day: 30/08/2021 Did you know that massive stars are not the only objects that can collapse to form black holes? In fact, any object can become a black hole if its matter is compressed below a certain radius. That radius is called the Schwarzschild radius...