If a pleasing or exceedingly balanced form is achieved in terms of elements of application or function, then we may look for a function of the Golden Number there … The Golden Number is a product not of mathematical imagination, but of a natural principle related to the laws of equilibrium.

What do the pyramids in Egypt, Leonardo do Vinci’s portrait of the Mona Lisa, sunflowers, the snail, the pine cone and your fingers all have in common?

The answer to this question lies hidden in a sequence of numbers discovered by the Italian mathematician Fibonacci. The characteristic of these numbers, known as the Fibonacci numbers, is that each one consists of the sum of the two numbers before it.

Fibonacci numbers

Launching a lawsuit against the very company that is responsible for a farmer suicide every 30 minutes, 5 million farmers are now suing Monsanto for as much as 6.2 billion euros (around 7.7 billion US dollars). The reason? As with many other cases, such as the ones that led certain farming regions to be known as the ‘suicide belt’, Monsanto has been reportedly taxing the farmers to financial shambles with ridiculous royalty charges. The farmers state that Monsanto has been unfairly gathering exorbitant profits each year on a global scale from “renewal” seed harvests, which are crops planted using seed from the previous year’s harvest.

                     PA  |  Posted: 19/08/2012 08:56 Updated: 19/08/2012 08:56    

Former chancellor Alistair Darling has urged his successor George Osborne to come up with "another plan" before "immeasurable" damage is done to the UK.

Telegraph.co.uk 

Lord Rothschild has taken a near-£130m bet against the euro as fears continue to grow that the single currency will break up. 

9:55PM BST 18 Aug 2012