Always remember this first rule of statistics. :-D Via Bloomberg Businessweek....
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I really need to brush up on my Star Wars trivia, because I couldn't get everything! *hangs head in shame* I will post the answers in the comments section right after publishing this, so fret not! Via Neatorama. P.S. — According to Gamma Squad, the creator of the game, the chart was made "liberally using titles, first and last names and the occasional starfighter" so I don't feel too bad about not being able to get everything. :-P...
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My mother came over today so that I can get some rest (but we all know the real reason she comes over is to see her precious granddaughter), but instead of doing what I was supposed to do — take a nap to relieve my body of the insomnia it has been suffering — I ended up being on my feet the entire day cooking, cleaning, and taking a trip to the Korean grocery store. The two hours between the time that my mother left and J arrived home from work was torture. Comang was being a brat and wouldn't stop barking. Claire was overtired and kept throwing mini tantrums. My entire body was aching, I was having painful Braxton Hicks...
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I can't say that I have read all of these authors so I do not feel that I have the right to properly place judgement on the diagram. However, I do agree with the creator of the diagram that good writing should come from all three places: the head (pros: cerebral, conceptual; cons: didactic, dry), the mouth(pros: language, poetics; cons: empty banter, pure form), and the heart (pros: empathic, intimate; cons: sentimental, emotional). Via HTMLGIANT....
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Today I learned that on a chessboard, a knight can visit each square exactly once. Here's how: The animation is actually one way of solving the Knight's Tour, which is a mathematical problem that is commonly given in computer science courses. (However, I don't recall ever giving this problem in my Intro to Java class.) At first glance, viewers may object that the animation is not valid considering that the knight's square of origin is incorrect. However, according to Wikipedia, there are 26,534,728,821,064 different ways (including reversals, reflections and rotations) to do this so that the knight travels in a loop (ie, starting where it began), in which case you could start from any square and then just continue the loop from there. Via Reddit....
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