http://www.sixtysymbols.com/index.html

Why I haven’t featured this as a TWSB yet, I don’t know.

But it’s happening now, so be happy!

Those frequenters of YouTube out in my readership (all two of you!) have probably come across one of the videos from the Sixty Symbols gang.

Run out of the University of Nottingham, the scientists behind Sixty Symbols seek to explain some of the coolest symbols used in physics and astronomy. They’ve got more than sixty symbols total right now because they’re working on a second set, so that’s even cooler.

Some of my favorites include:
– Planck Length
– Summation
– Star Classification
– Large Numbers
– Lambda (eigenvalues!!)
– Brazil Nut Effect
– Imaginary Numbers
– Kelvin (Kelvin needs more love in the temperature world)

Woo, science!