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The Iced Foot Effect
Does calling a timeout as a defensive strategy to "ice" a kicker in football actually reduce the chances of a successful field goal kick?
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Football’s Overtime Bias
The coin toss appears to play a significant role in deciding the winner in pro football's sudden-death overtime.
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Squaring Circles
Cutting a circle into pieces and reassembling the fragments to form a square is a tricky proposition.
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Young Gauss
Mathematical anecdotes don't always tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
- Math
A Catalog of Random Bits
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
- Math
Randomness, Risk, and Financial Markets
A novel measure of disorder in a sequence of numbers can provide insights into financial markets.
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Proof by Computer
Using computers to help prove theorems raises question about checking proofs.
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Euler’s Sums of Powers
Investigating sums of powers has a long history, going back to Fermat and Euler.
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Sunlight Speckle
Lasers are not the only light sources that can produce a speckle pattern on a rough surface.
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Flight of the Bumblebee
The notion that scientists proved bumblebees can't fly has a long legacy.
