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“Narrow Escape of a Mouse”

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Mr. Chas. Hy. Heskins, of 94, Blenheim Road, Reading, was good enough...

Education

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— Uriah Parke, Lectures on the Philosophy of Arithmetic and the Adaptation...

Number Theory

2 days ago

What’s the funniest number? Yale physicist Emily Pottebaum proposed the Perceived Specificity...

Watch Your Step

3 days ago

Image: Wikimedia Commons Artist Edgar Müller created this illusion at an open-cast...

Late Word

3 days ago

A week after songwriter Jim Croce died in a plane crash in...

Piecework

4 days ago

In the Spring 1957 issue of Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, C.W. Trigg...

“A Reading in Unlove”

5 days ago

This poem is widely purported to have been written by a 15-year-old...

Five-Sided Story

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In a regular pentagon, all diagonals are drawn, as shown. Label each...

Double or Nothing

6 days ago

Carrying two brown satchels, one filled with $777,000 in $100 bills and...

A Grim Friday

6 days ago

Two affecting episodes from the Johnstown Flood of 1889, in which a...

Reflections

7 days ago

Aphorisms of German physicist Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799) “Passionate ambition and suspicion I...

“Man and Bird”

7 days ago

A Man with a Shotgun said to a Bird ‘It is all...