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  • Raven paradox
    Science Apparently seeing green apples is proof that all ravens are black Mark Frauenfelder
  • Multiple Choice Probability Puzzle
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  • Sex Can time travelers go back in time and have sex with themselves? Astrophysicists investigate. Thom Dunn
  • time Here are all the ways time is an illusion Andrea James
  • paradoxes The paradox of The Bottle Imp Mark Frauenfelder
  • paradoxes The absent-minded driver's paradox Mark Frauenfelder
  • paradoxes 20 amusing paradoxes and dilemmas to ponder Mark Frauenfelder
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  • puzzles The Missing Dollar puzzle from Martin Gardner's Aha! Gotcha book series Mark Frauenfelder
  • Funny Four sets of identical twins pull an epic NYC subway car time-machine prank Cory Doctorow
  • brain teasers Saturday morning mind-benders: "Newcomb's Problem" and "Parfit's Hitchhiker" dilemma Mark Frauenfelder
  • crime Blackmail paradoxes Mark Frauenfelder
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    Clever fable about quick thinking Mark Frauenfelder
  • HDSF Have you committed a Time Crime? Maybe you will… Jesse Sheidlower
  • game theory How "God Makes God" is a 1993 CD-ROM about probability, game theory, genetic algorithms, and evolutionary strategies Mark Frauenfelder
  • mathematics New research: There's a 50-50 chance we're living in a simulation and here's how to find out David Pescovitz
  • books Paper Girls 5: fate and free will (and dinosaurs and monsters) Cory Doctorow
  • late stage capitalism The paradox of good government: the best stuff works well and is thus unnoticeable (and therefore easy to sell off) Cory Doctorow

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