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Presumptive Conundrums –
December 27, 2019 |
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You didn't need a math professor to tell you that, no matter what the song says, one is not "the loneliest number." (But if you actually do need a math professor to tell you, Dr. Mason Porter of UCLA is there for you.) The lyric needs text doctoring, since one divided by two is in fact a half (.5): Original: One is a number divided by two.
Revision: One's the remainder when you once halve two.
If we do say so ourselves, our revision offers not only homophony (one's/once) but also wordplay (halve/have). (Don't knock us, for if we received even half the literary criticism we deserve, we wouldn't have to analyze our own work. Hint: this is your invitation to be part of the solution.)
Our headline from Greensboro's 1975 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense –
November 1, 2019 |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Restoring the Lost Sense –
October 11, 2019 |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea –
August 28, 2019 |
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Pushed into a nightmarish sea of grinning mathematical monsters. From Thrilling Wonder Stories, 1936.
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`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' ` "The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News |
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Presumptive Conundrums –
August 23, 2019 |
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How can one prove the equation "Girls + Smiles = Peace"? This perplexing calculation appears in Peace College's 1981 yearbook.
The answer is simple, with matchsticks. Girls are represented by the XX chromosome, rendered with four crosscrossing matches. Smiles are represented by a smiley-face symbol comprised of four more matches. Four matches plus four matches equal the eight matches of the peace symbol.
That's what Presumptive Conundrums is all about -- literary, rhetorical math problems that seemingly have no serious answer or provability. It's the ultimate puzzler for logical- and mathematical-minded folks.
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Restoring the Lost Sense –
July 4, 2019 |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Presumptive Conundrums –
May 27, 2019 |
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