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Monday, September 9, 2013
A second gallery of mathematical cranks, wanks, and wonks
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Continued from part one , this will be a second look at the many purveyors of woo in the math world. Fascinating though they are... Radi...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Paul the Psychic Octopus
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From 2008 to 2010, a pet octopus named "Paul" was given the rather burdensome chore of predicting the outcome of World Cup socc...
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Get hit by lightning seven times; kill yourself at age 71 by gunshot
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Roy Sullivan got into the Guinness Book of World Records as having been struck by lightning seven times - and survived them all! This was...
Saturday, August 25, 2012
A month of Fridays brings bad luck
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In a tense image only a conspiracy theorist (or Nicholas Cage fan - as if there were a difference) could love, artist George Widener ca...
Thursday, April 19, 2012
We're all descended from ancient Egyptians
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A genealogy researcher has come to the startling conclusion that humans - all 7 billion+ of us - come from one big family tree,...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The Two-Deck Turnover Trick - Try It!
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Take two decks of ordinary playing cards. Keep the packs separate. Shuffle each of them. Now place both decks face down side-by-side an...
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