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The aptly named test site for the world's first and only nuclear-powered rocket engines. Jerimoth Hill: The highest natural point in Rhode Island. For years, one of the toughest highpoints in the U.S. to scale, not because of its 812-foot (247 m) height, but because of an angry old man who lived nearby. Just Room Enough Island
24 super wrong but brilliant test answers from the most creative students. Brittany Vanbibber. Updated August 14, 2015 at 9:36 AM. Back-to-school season is here! Before you kick off the school...
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions is a 2014 non-fiction book by Randall Munroe in which the author answers hypothetical science questions sent to him by readers of his webcomic, xkcd. The book contains a selection of questions and answers originally published on his blog What If?, along with several new ones.
Do any odd weird numbers exist? Do any (2, 5)-perfect numbers exist? Do any Taxicab(5, 2, n) exist for n > 1? Is there a covering system with odd distinct moduli? Is a normal number (i.e., is each digit 0–9 equally frequent)? Are all irrational algebraic numbers normal? Is 10 a solitary number?
In modern physics, the double-slit experiment demonstrates that light and matter can satisfy the seemingly incongruous classical definitions for both waves and particles. This ambiguity is considered evidence for the fundamentally probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics. This type of experiment was first performed by Thomas Young in 1801, as ...
Colon, Michigan. The official story claims that this town was named after a city in Panama, but the fact that Michigan is home to places like “Brown City,” “Flushing” and “Colon ...
Unfortunate Trends. This last decade has undoubtedly given rise to all manners of unexpected, and honestly, occasionally, unfortunate trends. The digital worlds of places like TikTok have ...
Birthday paradox: In a random group of only 23 people, there is a better than 50/50 chance two of them have the same birthday. Borel's paradox: Conditional probability density functions are not invariant under coordinate transformations. Boy or Girl paradox: A two-child family has at least one boy.
The perfect Q&As for Presidents' Day 2024. Leading the free world is a hard job! From those who shattered glass ceilings to leaders who served as war heroes to those who resigned in disgrace ...
The sentence can be given as a grammatical puzzle or an item on a test, for which one must find the proper punctuation to give it meaning. Hans Reichenbach used a similar sentence ("John where Jack had...") in his 1947 book Elements of Symbolic Logic as an exercise for the reader, to illustrate the different levels of language, namely object ...