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A Chinese Mathematician Reveals How to Beat Anyone at Rock-Paper-Scissors
Rock-paper-scissors has been around for thousands of years. The seemingly simple hand game proves useful in randomly selecting a winning and losing player using very basic rules: rock smashes scissors, scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock. However, the game is not as simple as…
· Laura Dang
A Mathematician Has the Perfect Explanation For Why Traffic Jams Happen
Sitting in traffic is the worst way to spend Labor Day weekend. What’s even more frustrating is realizing there was no reason for a traffic jam in the first place. Why does traffic happen where there seems to be no accidents and no construction work interfering with the flow of…
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One Tweet Sums Up How People React To ‘Sexy’ Photos Taken by a Female Teacher vs. a Male Teacher
Gemma Laird, a female teaching assistant at Bloemfontein Primary, County Durham, was fired this week after a parent found her her past lingerie modelling photos online. Meanwhile, Pietro Boselli, a former math lecturer at University College London, was dubbed the “world’s…
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Why Poor People Actually Pay More Than Rich People For Toilet Paper
A surprising study revealed that low-income families are unable to afford to save when it comes to buying household supplies like toilet paper. Families with low incomes pay more for everyday household items such as toilet paper than families with higher incomes. It’s not that…
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We Need to Talk About How Badass Jack Ma Is
Jack Ma is the founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba with a net worth of $22.4 billion. While we know him now for all his major successes, Ma’s life has actually been riddled with failure.
· Laura Dang
How a Swedish Farm Boy Hustled His Way to Becoming the Billionaire Owner of IKEA
The man who founded IKEA, the world-famous Swedish furniture store, insists on flying economy and buying his clothes secondhand at flea markets. One of the richest and most mysterious self-made billionaires, Ingvar Kamprad has an incredible rags to riches tale that began on the…
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Your iPhone Probably Costs Between $12.50 to $30 to Make
Though the exact figure of how much it costs to manufacture an iPhone is not a matter of public knowledge, a rare peek inside Apple’s factory in China granted to ABC News reporter Bill Weir provides significant clues to that number. The rare footage inside the famous company’s…
· Sebastian Dillon
Chris Rock Pissed Off a Lot of Asian-Americans With One Terrible Joke at the Oscars
This year’s Academy Awards host, comedian Chris Rock, may have trumpeted the #OscarsSoWhite theme during the ceremony, but he wasn’t without his own race-themed jokes that caused an uproar on Twitter from the Asian-American community. Rock made the joke when he credited the…
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Drunk Chinese Man Dropkicks Elevator Door, Immediately Regrets It
A young man in China fell down an elevator shaft after drunkenly drop kicking one of its doors in.
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Former NYPD Cop Reveals Exactly What to Do During a Mass Shooting or Terrorist Attack
Bill Stanton, popularly known as “Wild Bill,” is a New York City-based private investigator and safety expert who has dedicated his life to teaching others survival techniques for mass shootings, child abductions, and theft, among other things. Stanton’s career started when he…
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Doritos Gave Three People $50,000 After the Super Bowl For Sending a Single Tweet
After the Super Bowl, three lucky and creative Twitter users won $50,000 each for their tweets about Doritos chips. Doritos’ “Crash the Second Screen” Twitter contest attracted 5,500 people to create creative tweets about the chip brand. Afterwards, Doritos picked three winners…
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Here’s What Chris Pratt Wrote on Instagram at 3AM After Working 80 Hours Straight
After a long day of shooting his new movie, actor Chris Pratt shared an inspiration message on Instagram. It’s a great reminder for why you should always follow your dreams. “It’s 3:20am. I got picked up for work at 6:45am yesterday. I’m not good with math, especially after…
· Laura Dang
This 17-Year-Old is One of 12 in the World to Completely Ace the AP Calculus Exam
For many people, the strenuous three-hour-long Advanced Placement Calculus exam is something to be suppressed from their memories, but for some it is an unforgettable and life-changing feat. That was the case for 17-year-old Cedrick Argueta, who is one of only 12 people in the…
· Laura Dang
Here’s What Happened to the Daughters of the Original ‘Tiger Mom’
The daughters of “tiger mother” Amy Chua, best known for her controversial child-rearing memoir “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” say they plan to raise their own children the same way their parents did. Chua, 53, is a Yale law professor recognized for her strict “tiger mom…
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MIT Dropout Launches Free College With an Ivy League Acceptance Rate
College debt is without a doubt a serious issue facing college students: 2015 graduates will owe an average of a little more than $35,000. In total, there is $68 billion worth of education debt in the United States — 10 times more than in 1994.
· Jacob Wagner
Twenty-Four-Year-Old Hits Three People in His Lamborghini, Hangs Out the Window to Text After
A 24-year-old man driving a Lamborghini Gallardo in the port city of Surabaya on the Indonesian island of Java allegedly lost control of his sports car and ran over three innocent bystanders. One man was killed and two others were injured from the accident. Snapshots of the…
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This 18-Year-Old Just Won $400,000 For Making a YouTube Video
An 18-year-old high schooler explained Einstein’s theory of relativity so well in a YouTube video, he won $400,000. Ryan Chester submitted his video for the Breakthrough Junior Challenge, an annual contest for kids 13 to 18 to share their love for math and science with the…
· Laura Dang
NASA is Officially Recruiting Astronauts to Go to Mars
Attention all space lovers: NASA is officially putting a team together to set foot on the Martian frontier. Charles Bolden, a NASA Administrator and former astronaut, said in a statement:
· Laura Dang
Seventeen-Year-Old Genius Finally Gets Job at NASA After Getting Rejected For Being Too Young
This teenaged whiz kid might be too young to vote or drink, but he holds two college degrees and works on drone and aircraft surveillance technology for NASA. Moshe Kai Cavalin, 17, graduated from community college at the age of 11 and went on to pursue a bachelor’s degree in…
· Laura Dang
Science Has Terrible News For Women Who Are Intelligent
Ladies, it really isn’t you. A recent report finds that men prefer dating women who are less intelligent than them. The study from the November issue of the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin was conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Buffalo,…
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