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“Helm, Warp One, Engage!” Calculating Warp Speed Factors
Wolfram|Alpha’s goal is to cover all things computational, from mathematics and the sciences to movies and sports. But the set of all things computable encompasses areas outside of the real world as...
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Making CrunchBase Computable with Wolfram|Alpha
Most of the new features we announce on this blog are large-scale projects where we add a huge chunk of data to Wolfram|Alpha all at once. But there are always dozens of background projects going on at...
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Looper: Questions about Time, Energy, and Power
Last weekend, Looper came out in theaters, bringing time travel back to the big screen. But there are lot of questions that can be asked about the science of the world it portrays. We will visit some...
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Geography Awareness Week and Anna Karenina
Since President Reagan declared it in 1987, every third week in November in the United States is celebrated as Geography Awareness Week. Related to that, one of my favorite novels—Anna Karenina, by Leo...
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Relating to Your Relatives with Wolfram|Alpha
My family lives all over, with varying worldviews and equally varied career choices, from video game producers to truck drivers. So certainly reconnecting with family, both nuclear and extended, can be...
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Mathematics as an Art Form—Visualizing Equations
When I was younger, I held the naive and incorrect view that mathematics was divorced from the arts. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve become more aware of not only how mathematics is the foundation for any...
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Wolfram|Alpha, Be My Valentine
Years ago when I was young, there was something I wanted to know: “Could math ever be super popular, or has it begun to plateau?” Although being “smart” and quite “witty,” I never could figure math...
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Celebrate National Tooth Fairy Day with Wolfram|Alpha
Today is National Tooth Fairy Day, a day where we can be reminded to take good care of our teeth, and in the event we’re young and some fall out, to put them under our pillows for magic money. I once...
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Making Formulas… for Everything—From Pi to the Pink Panther to Sir Isaac Newton
Here at Wolfram Research and at Wolfram|Alpha we love mathematics and computations. Our favorite topics are algorithms, followed by formulas and equations. For instance, Mathematica can calculate...
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Using Formulas… for Everything—From a Complex Analysis Class to Political...
In my last blog post, I discussed how to construct closed-form trigonometric formulas for sketches of people’s faces. Using similar techniques, Wolfram|Alpha has recently added a collection of hundreds...
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Set the Curve with Wolfram|Alpha!
We here at Wolfram are, by and large, a bunch of nerds. This shouldn’t be that surprising, especially after looking at the people and fictional characters we’ve turned into mathematical curves on...
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Elysium
Spoiler Alert Like many people, I went to see the movie Elysium last weekend. The movie’s premise is that the wealthy members of society have relocated to an orbital space station, named Elysium, that...
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A Response to “Falling with Helium”
Recently the author of xkcd, Randall Munroe, was asked the question of how long it would be necessary for someone to fall in order to jump out of an airplane, fill a large balloon with helium while...
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Gotta Compute ‘Em All!—Wolfram|Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon
Psst! Wolfram|Alpha has updated its Pokémon data to include Generation VI. Check it out here. It’s not all abstract algebra and organic chemistry here at Wolfram HQ. From time to time, we like to take...
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Pumpkins, Cauldrons, and Hoards of Halloween Candy
I was a raging sugar-holic as a kid. (Let’s face it, who wasn’t?) So, naturally, Halloween was a glorious, much-anticipated, high-energy free-for-all. My brother and I used to return from...
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…Was That Painted by Monet or Manet?
Was that painted by Monet or Manet? There are some people in the world who just know these things. Those walking, talking encyclopedias of artistic knowledge who can rattle off movements and time...
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Talking Turkey
The holiday season is upon us again, and that means one thing: more turkey, please. Last year we introduced a tool for calculating how long you should cook a turkey. This year we’ve expanded our...
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The Alpha Albums Contest: Name Albums, Win Prizes
If you’re a big music fan (and who isn’t?), you’ve probably been carrying around a lot of the lyrics to your favorite songs and albums in your head. It’s unlikely that you get the chance to show off...
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Wolfram|Alpha’s Best Blog Posts of 2013
Even our biggest Wolfram|Alpha fans may have missed some of the stories we’ve shared this year—but here’s your chance to catch up! Without further ado, our 10 most popular Wolfram|Alpha Blog posts from...
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Merry Christmas from Wolfram|Alpha!
Soft snow, fuzzy sweaters, cozy nights by the fireplace… Winter is my favorite season! And with the excitement of the holidays approaching, it’s hard not to get swept up in it all. Whether you look...
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