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Did you know that each winter one septillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) of snow crystals drop from the sky and that it takes about a million little droplets to make one snowflake? As common as it might seem at first glance, snow is actually a very complex type of precipitation. If you are wondering which is the world’s [...]
Posted by Timeea on Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 12:01 am
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Historically, gamblers haven’t all been deadbeats, outlaws, criminals and derelicts nor are they today. In this day and age, more and more people of all walks of life are gambling as both a form of entertainment and as a way to make fast, easy cash. From celebrities playing Texas hold’em to business men playing the [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Games, History, People · Tagged 4th Earl of Sandwich, and gambler, Bill Hickok, Blaine Pascal, Charles de Ligne, Charles II, claude monet, Dead Man's Hand, famous gamblers, famous poker players, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gambler, gambler and chess player, gamblers, gambling, Games, Giacomo Casanova, Jerome Cardan, John Aspinall, John Montagu, John Montague, Kenny Rogers, Michael de Montaigne, Natalie Jaro, People, poker, Rene Descartes, top 10 list, top 10 poker players, wild bill Hickok
Thought experiments are mental concepts or hypotheses, often resembling riddles, which are used by philosophers and scientists as simple ways of illuminating what are usually very dense ideas. Most often, they’re used in more abstract fields like philosophy and theoretical physics, where physical experiments aren’t possible. They serve as some hearty food for thought, but [...]
Posted by Evan Andrews on Friday, July 16, 2010 at 12:01 am
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