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The paradox arises when one considers what would happen if one attached a piece of buttered toast (butter side up) to the back of a cat, then dropped the cat from a large height. The buttered cat paradox, submitted by artist John Frazee of Kingston, New York, won a 1993 Omni magazine competition about paradoxes. [1] [2] The basic premise ...
The Buttered Cat Paradox piques our interest with an odd mental image of a buttered bread, its golden side shining, perched on a cat’s nimble back. This amusing conjecture raises an intriguing question: when this cat performer jumps, will it land quickly or will it turn the toast butter side down to defy gravity?
Bertrand's box paradox: A paradox of conditional probability closely related to the Boy or Girl paradox. Bertrand's paradox: Different common-sense definitions of randomness give quite different results. 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.
Celebrity felines like Lil Bub, Maru, Grumpy Cat, and Monty are perfect examples of cats going viral for all the right reasons and absolutely coining it with their own lines of merchandise.
It might seem like the internet loves crazy cats and funny dogs equally, but there actually is a clear preference. Research by the popular site Cheezburger in 2013 found that more folks made memes ...
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We've discovered a whole host of funny cat jokes that really are hiss-terical. Furry, fabulous and funny balls of fluff are the words we'd used to describe cats. But above all, these mischievous ...
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