Look around. Do you see any people? If you answered yes, then please proceed. If not, then go find some friends. Found some? Good. Do they all have birthdays? Great, we’ll need those. There’s an interesting “paradox” in probability theory called the “Birthday Problem”, and I’m going to tell you about it. If you go …
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The Elegant Cutter
We are not alone. No, I’m not talking about aliens. No, not about surveillance either. We’ve been living with another intelligent life form for a long time. In fact, they’ve been here much longer than we have. They’ve developed their society over tens of millions of years, creating a highly efficient and complex social hierarchy …
The Hybrid
Nuclear power is a bit controversial. On the one hand, we’re poisoning our planet with CO2 every second we’re not using nuclear power. On the other hand, every second that we do use nuclear power, we’re producing nuclear waste that’ll poison our planet in a few million years. And let’s not forget humanity: we need …
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