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Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more,leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle,and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here. SPOILER WARNING:
We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer. As such,if you want to figure it out all by yourself,DON’T READ THE COMMENTS! Also,with the knowledge that because others may publish their answers before you do,if you want to be able to search for information without accidentally seeing the answer somewhere,you can use the Google-a-Day site’s search tool,which will automatically filter out published answers,to give you a spoiler-free experience. And now,without further ado,we give you… TODAY’S PUZZLE: What creature uses nitric oxide to produce the starry effect you see in a New Zealand cave?
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (mouseover to see): Search [jentaculum] to find that this is “breakfast”in the Latin of Ancient Rome. Search [hat Romans wore during Saturnalia] and learn that people wore a hat called a “pileus”(or “pilleus”).
Ken,Matt,and special guest Stephen Toulouse (aka Stepto) talk all about online gaming with kids,and then geek out about some awesome movies. Enjoy! GeekDad.com is the parenting blog at Wired.com,edited by Ken Denmead,Matt Blum,Jonathan Liu,Z and Chris Anderson. It is a community of like-minded geeky parents writing about our experiences raising our kids in the digital age,and about our obsessions with technology,family-friendly projects,and pop-culture. The GeekDads podcast is a biweekly discussion of anything and everything that impacts us as geeks and parents. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes. You can subscribe directly with this RSS feed.
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Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more,leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle,and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here. SPOILER WARNING:
We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer. As such,if you want to figure it out all by yourself,DON’T READ THE COMMENTS! Also,with the knowledge that because others may publish their answers before you do,if you want to be able to search for information without accidentally seeing the answer somewhere,you can use the Google-a-Day site’s search tool,which will automatically filter out published answers,to give you a spoiler-free experience. And now,without further ado,we give you… TODAY’S PUZZLE: You’ve just finished your “jentaculum” and are headed out when you suddenly remember it’s “Saturnalia”! You rush back home to put what on your head?
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (mouseover to see): Search for [measurement twinkling of an eye] Find that an “atomus,” once the smallest unit of time,is 1/376 of a minute,which equals 160 milliseconds. Search [20 minutes in milliseconds] to learn that it’s 1,200,000 milliseconds. Divide [1,200,000 / 160] to find it will take you 7,500 twinkles to get to the festival.
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Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more,leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle,and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here. SPOILER WARNING:
We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer. As such,if you want to figure it out all by yourself,DON’T READ THE COMMENTS! Also,with the knowledge that because others may publish their answers before you do,if you want to be able to search for information without accidentally seeing the answer somewhere,you can use the Google-a-Day site’s search tool,which will automatically filter out published answers,to give you a spoiler-free experience. And now,without further ado,we give you… TODAY’S PUZZLE: If it takes you 20 minutes to drive to a Renaissance festival,how long will that be in the medieval measurement of “the twinkling of an eye”?
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (mouseover to see): Search [supernova energy enemy]. Scan through the results and notice the word “foe,”meaning enemy. If you then search [foe supernova] you will find that a foe is a unit used to denote the huge amount of energy produced by a supernova.
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Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more,leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle,and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here. SPOILER WARNING:
We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer. As such,if you want to figure it out all by yourself,DON’T READ THE COMMENTS! Also,with the knowledge that because others may publish their answers before you do,if you want to be able to search for information without accidentally seeing the answer somewhere,you can use the Google-a-Day site’s search tool,which will automatically filter out published answers,to give you a spoiler-free experience. And now,without further ado,we give you… TODAY’S PUZZLE: A supernova doesn’t have enemies,but it does emit energy in units whose name is a synonym for enemy. What is that unit?
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (mouseover to see): Search [manok lechon baboy kinilaw] to find that these are all common foods of the Philippines. A really good guess would be that your spouse has flown you to the Philippines for your weekend adventure.
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