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Slippery Lube
This is not a real blog entry, just a page posted on December 30th, 2010, as a reply to Steve Landsburg on his blog. His entry is called "Slippe…
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Steve Fossett lost
Amelia Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean in 1937, during an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight. She was declared dead 18 mo…
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Some geography: Statetris
A helpful exercise not only for future wars among the respectable readers of TRF: Statetris - Europe Statetris - USA Traveler IQ challenge
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Crystal ball predictions: flash
Full screen... Many laymen can't believe that the physicists can make some predictions by pure thought without looking at the experiments. Doesn&…
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Manic Miner
Manic Miner ... Manic miner flash game removed from the page because it was making a lot of noise. Please click at the second "Manic miner"…
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Aristotle's Sudoku puzzle
...and a metaphor for the exceptional structures in algebra, theoretical physics, string theory... The most mentally demanding gift I received for ou…
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Left brain vs right brain
Click to get a more economical page with the animation. Is she rotating clockwise or counter-clockwise? If clockwise , your right hemisphere is more …
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Abracadabra and M-theory
Over at neopets.com , the Lenny Conundrum #100 has already been judged. About 2,000 kids of all ages between 2 years and 90 years divided 10 millions…
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Annihilating letters
If you're just waiting for your turkey, you can try to destroy some pairs of letters . Explanation: the letters are elementary particles. Your go…
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Crystal ball predictions: flash
Full screen... Many laymen can't believe that the physicists can make some predictions by pure thought without looking at the experiments. Doesn&…
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Barack Obama solves problems of America
Guam will tip over Hank Johnson , a U.S. lawmaker (DEM), has figured out that the island of Guam is so small that it will tip over and capsize when a…
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Chinese IQ river test: SWF
Via Arcade Temple Full screen... (click) The Japanese employers use this test to hire employees in the IT sector. You should get all the people to t…
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Rube Goldberg machine: video
If you've never seen a Rube Goldberg machine, open this Rube Goldberg video . Is this how the real world works? First of all, this machine is exa…
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The Stephen Colbert "On Notice Board"
Thanks to Steve who sent this photograph with those interesting topics. I guess it's the Gentleman on the picture.
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Perceiving randomness: egalitarian bias
After a long time, I am going to agree with a text written over at Cosmic Variance: Perceiving randomness Look at the following two pictures. Click t…
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Smartkit: On the edge game
Click the screenshot for the game. Jump on each white square once before you end up with the red square.
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George Bush meets Prof. Albert Einstein
As soon as Lee Smolin asked the question Why no new Einstein? several gifted Korean engineers from a company called Hanson Robotics gave a possible …
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String Ducky wins 2-minute video contest
The viewers of String Theory in Two Minutes video contest have chosen the Watson family but Brian Greene had a different winner, namely String Ducky…
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53rd IMO: Problem 2
A solution was added at the end The 53rd International Mathematical Olympiad is taking place in Mar del Plata, Argentina, the same country in which…
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11/11 11:11:11, 11 years after the birth of M-theory in 11 dimensions
This is not a real posting, just a placeholder. This 1111-th posting on this blog was submitted at 11:11:11 on 11/11 but unfortunately the internal B…
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