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"Well, when I started working here, I asked a scientist the exact same question, and he said it was sixty-five million years old—and that was three years, two months and eighteen days ago." [ 21 ] The joke is that the employee fails to understand the scientist's implication of the uncertainty in the age of the fossil and uses false precision .
Lewis Carroll's doublet in Vanity Fair, March 1897 changing the word "head" to "tail" in five steps, one letter at a time. Word ladder (also known as Doublets, [1] word-links, change-the-word puzzles, paragrams, laddergrams, [2] or word golf) is a word game invented by Lewis Carroll. A word ladder puzzle begins with two words, and to solve the ...
43×5 = 215 Half of 3's neighbor is 0, plus 5 because 3 is odd, is 5. Half of 4's neighbor is 1. Half of the leading zero's neighbor is 2. 93×5=465 Half of 3's neighbor is 0, plus 5 because 3 is odd, is 5. Half of 9's neighbor is 1, plus 5 because 9 is odd, is 6. Half of the leading zero's neighbor is 4.
The 10,000 steps per day rule isn’t based in science. Here’s what experts have to say about how much you should actually walk per day for maximum benefits.
In his article, Miller discussed a coincidence between the limits of one-dimensional absolute judgment and the limits of short-term memory. In a one-dimensional absolute-judgment task, a person is presented with a number of stimuli that vary on one dimension (e.g., 10 different tones varying only in pitch) and responds to each stimulus with a corresponding response (learned before).
In 1994, the Los Angeles Times spoke with some psychologists and sociologists to better understand why people love snooping so much. According to one doctor, it's a quest to know the person better.
2 + 2 = 5 or two plus two equals five is a mathematical ... you will not have advanced a step." ... 2 times 2 are 6; and the Juste-milieu says, 2 times 2 are 5". ...
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" is a common saying that originated from a Chinese proverb. The quotation is from Chapter 64 of the Tao Te Ching ascribed to Laozi , [ 1 ] although it is also erroneously ascribed to his contemporary Confucius . [ 2 ]