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Brazil's interesting law to reduce sentences for inmates for every book they read has some rules. The book limit for a year is 12 books, and only certain books qualify for the program.
Learning new things is important if we want to live a long and fulfilling life. Acquiring new skills and performing activities such as puzzles and other brain games strengthens our neurological ...
Image credits: factbyscience Doing things that keep you actively engaged can be a good way to beat boredom. "Boredom is an emotion, a natural response to a lack of stimulation," said Rutledge ...
Complex numbers are all fun and games until someone loses an i. That's when things get real. Minkowski's question-mark function: A function with an unusual notation and possessing unusual fractal properties. Monty Hall problem: The counter-intuitive way to prevail when playing Let's Make a Deal. Moving sofa problem
Interesting number paradox: The first number that can be considered "dull" rather than "interesting" becomes interesting because of that fact. Potato paradox : If potatoes consisting of 99% water dry until they are 98% water, they lose 50% of their weight.
Writing in The Independent, Philip Hensher described the series as "perfect radio", saying "Has there ever been a more exciting, more unfailingly interesting radio series than the Radio 4/British Museum venture, A History of the World in 100 Objects? It is such a beautifully simple idea, to trace human civilisations through the objects that ...
Here’s another fun fact: every time you learn something, your brain is never the same again. It physically changes whenever you gain new information, skills, or experiences.
Numbers very close to, but below one are often expressed in "nines" (N – not to be confused with the unit newton), that is in the number of nines following the decimal separator in writing the number in question. For example, "three nines" or "3N" indicates 0.999 or 99.9%, "four nines five" or "4N5" is the expression for the number 0.99995 or ...