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Countless challenges and solutions but can you find one? Endless challenges! Our classic logic game that enables players to create their own gameboard by clicking together the magnetic grids. INSIDE THE BOX: Game board, 12 puzzle pieces, challenges & solutions booklet.; COGNITIVE: Playing Quadrillion stimulates concentration, logic, problem solving, spatial insight, visual perception.; SINGLE OR MULTIPLAYER: For 1 or more players.; DIMENSIONS: 24 inches x 4-3/4 inches x 24 inches; game games board games kids board games board games for kids kids games toys STEM educational games educational toys magnet magnetic game games board games kids board games board games for kids kids games toys STEM educational games educational toys magnet magnetic

Find out all about Earth, including the types of rock on earth and how they are formed, the longest river and smallest mountain, earthquakes, volcanoes, the water cycle, and how we can really count the grains of sand on our planet.

Episodes in the history of data, from early modern math problems to today's inescapable “dataveillance,” that demonstrate the dependence of data on culture.We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta- denotes a quadrillion, or a thousand trillion). Data collection is constant and even insidious, with every click and every “like” stored somewhere for something. This book reminds us that data is anything but “raw,” that we shouldn't think of data as a natural resource but as a cultural one that needs to be generated, protected, and interpreted. The book's essays describe eight episodes in the history of data from the predigital to the digital. Together they address such issues as the ways that different kinds of data and different domains of inquiry are mutually defining; how data are variously “cooked” in the processes of their collection and use; and conflicts over what can―or can't―be “reduced” to data. Contributors discuss the intellectual history of data as a concept; describe early financial modeling and some unusual sources for astronomical data; discover the prehistory of the database in newspaper clippings and index cards; and consider contemporary “dataveillance” of our online habits as well as the complexity of scientific data curation. Essay AuthorsGeoffrey C. Bowker, Kevin R. Brine, Ellen Gruber Garvey, Lisa Gitelman, Steven J. Jackson, Virginia Jackson, Markus Krajewski, Mary Poovey, Rita Raley, David Ribes, Daniel Rosenberg, Matthew Stanley, Travis D. Williams

From a single pea on a plate to a quadrillion peas that cover an entire town, the numbers just get bigger and bigger, in a concept book about the unlimited possibilities of counting.

Shortlisted for the 2022 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translators Prize This sweeping portrait of the worlds uncontested six-legged conquerors will open your eyes to the secret societies thriving right beneath your feet-and shift your perspective on humanity.Ants number in the ten quadrillions, and they have been here since the Jurassic era. Inside an anthill, youll find high drama worthy of a royal court; and between colonies, high-stakes geopolitical intrigue is afoot. Just like us, ants grow crops, raise livestock, tend their young and infirm, and make vaccines. And, just like us, ants have a dark side: They wage war, despoil environments, and enslave rivals-but also rebel against their oppressors.Engineered by nature to fulfill their particular roles, ants flawlessly perform a complex symphony of tasks to sustain their colony-seemingly without a conductor-from fearsome army ants, who stage twelve-hour hunting raids where they devour thousands, to gentle leafcutters cooperatively gardening in their peaceful underground kingdoms.Acclaimed biologist Susanne Foitzik has traveled the globe to study these master architects of Earth. Joined by journalist Olaf Fritsche, Foitzik invites readers deep into her world-in the field and in the lab. (How do you observe the behavior of ants just millimeters long-or dissect a brain the width of a needle?) Richly illustrated and photographed in full color, Empire of Ants will inspire new respect for ants as a global superpower-and raise new questions about the very meaning of civilization.

From a single pea on a plate to a quadrillion peas that cover an entire town, the numbers just get bigger and bigger, in a concept book about the unlimited possibilities of counting.

The supercharged facts about energy and waves can set your brain buzzing! You learn about huge rates of consumption (like the 35.3 quadrillion BTUs of petroleum used in the United States in 2011), huge timelines (it took 300 million years for our greatest source of energy, fossil fuels, to be created), and even huger mysteries (how long it will be before fossil fuels run out). How can all these big numbers and concepts make more sense? Infographics! The charts, maps, and illustrations in this book tell a visual story to help you better understand key concepts about energy and waves. Crack open this book to explore mind-boggling questions such as: · What is “the grid” and how does it work? · How does sound travel? · How can dancing create energy? The answers are sure to be shocking!

Episodes in the history of data, from early modern math problems to today's inescapable “dataveillance,” that demonstrate the dependence of data on culture.We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta- denotes a quadrillion, or a thousand trillion). Data collection is constant and even insidious, with every click and every “like” stored somewhere for something. This book reminds us that data is anything but “raw,” that we shouldn't think of data as a natural resource but as a cultural one that needs to be generated, protected, and interpreted. The book's essays describe eight episodes in the history of data from the predigital to the digital. Together they address such issues as the ways that different kinds of data and different domains of inquiry are mutually defining; how data are variously “cooked” in the processes of their collection and use; and conflicts over what can―or can't―be “reduced” to data. Contributors discuss the intellectual history of data as a concept; describe early financial modeling and some unusual sources for astronomical data; discover the prehistory of the database in newspaper clippings and index cards; and consider contemporary “dataveillance” of our online habits as well as the complexity of scientific data curation. Essay AuthorsGeoffrey C. Bowker, Kevin R. Brine, Ellen Gruber Garvey, Lisa Gitelman, Steven J. Jackson, Virginia Jackson, Markus Krajewski, Mary Poovey, Rita Raley, David Ribes, Daniel Rosenberg, Matthew Stanley, Travis D. Williams