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Douglas Hofstadter is probably best known as the author of Gödel, Escher Bach, a classic of popular science writing published in 1979.In 1983, he coined the…

As a child of the 1990s, I couldn’t avoid the game-turned-best-seller Tetris. Launched in 1984 by Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov, Tetris quickly became a blockbuster and…

Earlier today I set you five “Kennections”, a puzzle devised by legendary US quiz show contestant and host Ken Jennings.Each challenge consists of five trivia questions,…

Jeopardy! is the long-running US quiz show where contestants are given an answer and must respond with a question for that answer.“Ken Jennings”, for example, is…

DAN BONGINO HERE!I MUST GET OUT OF THIS TERRIBLE POSITION OF “DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE FBI” (where I am HELPLESS to see what’s really going on),…

For readers who answered “yes”, you are correct.For readers who answered “no”, you are also correct.(I hope no one answered “maybe”.)A similar logic applies to today’s…

Ever since Pluto was demoted from planet to dwarf planet in 2006, astronomers have been wondering whether Neptune really is the most distant planet from the…

Animation of the same plastic spheres disappearing one at a time. A holy grail in pure mathematics is sphere packing in higher dimensions. Almost nothing has…