Curmudgeon

Today I learned the word "Curmudgeon", meaning a difficult or bad-temperred person.  One of its synonyms is cantankerous, which was also a new word to me.

Largest known prime number

World's known largest prime number with 17-million digits is found! It is 2^57,885,161 -1, and thus it is a Mersenne prime number. A Mersenne prime number has the form 2^p -1, where p is a prime. Learn more about this finding here.

Behind the LASIK Eye

By now you should have learned that Baltimore Ravens have won the Super Bowl :-) I have learned a pleasantly surprising piece of information, rather late. Do you know who is the inventor of the LASIK eye surgery? Dr. Gholam Peyman! Learn more about him here:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gholam_A._Peyman

And here:

 http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/54753/