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79Counterintuitive Statistics
Everyone relies on common sense and intuition to make decisions in life. Usually our intuition about a situation serves us well in decision making, allowing us to quickly reach decisions in complicated...
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77Spaceships That Never Were
Since the inception of the U.S. space program there have been many novel launch vehicles and spaceships that were designed and seriously considered by NASA, but for one reason or another fell by the wayside....
4 comments75Cardholder Services
You may have recently received a call from "Cardholder Services" offering you a lower interest rate. The calls are made by an auto-dialer which plays a pre-recorded message saying something along the lines of: "Hello, this is Rachel (or some other...
326 comments64Children with Autism are Insensitive to Biological Motion
We live our lives surrounded by motion. Some moving things - like a rattlesnake - are important and warrant close attention, while others - like the rustling of leaves in the wind - are trivial and can be...
0 comments63Boston University's Tiny Torsion Oscillator
A research group at Boston University recently published their successful measurement of the torque produced by a nano-scale motor less than a micron in size in Nature Nanotechnology. Although the motor's tiny...
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