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Imagine knowing that the stock market will likely crash in three years, that extreme weather will destroy your home in eight or that you will have…

Earlier today I wrote about ambigrams, a type of writing that is designed to be read in more than one way. Typically, an ambigram is a…

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…

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…