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Mirror in Yahoo News: https://tech.yahoo.com/science/articles/mathematicians-still...

There's an online version to play that I find surprisingly addictive: https://royalur.net/

I must be the only one here loving those Mafia videos. I'm sad they are stopping after three episodes. Links to the first two episodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDCwQe7P8T0 …

My favorite part was a footnote: Footnote 2 specifically. I'd always wondered how plugboards worked and the footnote and the linked pdf gave me some sort of idea.

I use uBlock Origin and sometimes I have the opposite problem: I find out that a good movie came out months ago but I missed all the ads that flooded the internet because of my ad-…

Github link: https://github.com/palewire/fivethirtyeightindex.com

It has similarities to a very, very short story by Fredric Brown published two years before. It was called 'Answer' and is only 252 words long: https://www.roma1.infn.it/~anzel/ans…

Yes, I was surprised that the ATM graphs weren't adjusted for population. I used the Perspective tool in an image editor to give a rough idea of what the first graph would look lik…

I'm at the library so I checked your book. You said in there: > However, by October 1933, the issue was straightened out and she was aboard the Bremen, sailing for the United State…

I noticed last year that some archived pages are getting altered. Every Reddit archived page used to have a Reddit username in the top right, but then it disappeared. "Fair enough,…

For those wondering what specifically was fabricated, I checked. The earlier parts of the article include some quotes from Scott Shambaugh on Github and all the quotes are genuine.…

Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20260131153720/https://www.justi...

And this might be a copy of the original pdf: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02702...

Also, I found a different base64 encoding with a different font here: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA007755... This doesn't solve the "1 & l" problem for the…

You can use the justice.gov search box to find several different copies of that same email. The copy linked in the post: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00400…

I got 58% after 100 attempts. My method uses the fact that the letters a-k + u make up around 49.9% of letters in a normal text. So I just go through a text letter by letter in my …

The author couldn't find a purported willow text in the ancient Egyptian Ebers papyrus that was quoted by John Mann, so he threw his hands in the air and moved on. But Mann made a …

Mirror: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/one-surprising-psycho...

I never realized until now that in the the two different circles pictured (the Chromatic Circle and the Circle of Fifths) the pairs of notes opposite each other are the same in eac…

I think Aristotle had the greatest mind of any human who ever lived. The older I get the more I realize that there are a thousand true and intelligent things you can say about any …

Here in Australia the average punter on horse-racing is normally competing against his fellow rational and informed punters. But every November we have a huge Melbourne Cup race wh…

My favorite book about the Brothers Grimm is "Fairy Tales: A New History" by Ruth B. Bottigheimer. She argues persuasively that the conventional origin normally told about the Grim…

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