People love surprises: For example, a surprise party for friends, an unexpected gift for the kids or a spontaneous trip. All of these enrich life and, according to some research, a positive surprise ...
Source: Thunder Bay, Canada. Used with permission of Dan Hunt, MD. Coincidences attract our attention because they seem weird, odd, or unlikely. Their improbability stimulates wonder—“what are the ...
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This $2 coin flipping 'non-idle clicker' is a one-button labyrinth of probability paranoia
To paraphrase French-Algerian thinker Albert Camus: One must imagine the coin flipper happy. In Unfair Flips, released on Steam today by developer Heather Flowers, you have a coin and a button. The ...
This month’s puzzle featured two variations on the famous Sleeping Beauty problem. We compared the original problem to a famous visual illusion, the Necker cube, which is a two-dimensional figure that ...
In school, we are trained to think that math problems always have one correct answer. But this is not necessarily true for problems dealing with probability, if the method used to reach the described ...
Source: Thunder Bay, Canada. Used with permission of Dan Hunt, MD. Coincidences attract our attention because they seem weird, odd, or unlikely. Their improbability stimulates wonder—“what are the ...
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