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Is It Friday the 13th Again?
How our society defines years, months and weeks can seem frustratingly arbitrary. Can you bring order to our unruly calendar?
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Solution: ‘A Ticking Evolutionary Clock’
How to calculate when a gene’s rate of evolution will slow to a crawl.
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A Ticking Evolutionary Clock
How quickly will a gene’s rate of evolution slow to a crawl?
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Solution: ‘Taming Quantum Weirdness’
A simple analogue could offer insights into one of the most astonishing results of quantum mechanics.
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How to Tame Quantum Weirdness
Can balloon animals help blunt uneasy feelings about “spooky action at a distance”?
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Solution: ‘How Many Half-Lives?’
When do negative results from a half-life experiment mean a theory is dead?
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How Many Half-Lives Do You Have?
Gaining an intuition about half-life requires some unintuitive thinking.
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Solution: ‘Hanging Far Out Over the Edge’
A simple and elegant way to stack identical flat objects so that they project over an edge as far as possible.
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How to Hang Far Out Over the Edge
What formula describes the farthest you can stack flat blocks over the edge of a table to form a seemingly gravity-defying half-bridge to nowhere?