Did a court officially decide that they were legally two people or was this just the decision of clerks handling voter registration and driver licensing?
Well if you think about it - only one can actually drive. The one on the left.
Overseas trips to the UK and/or Australia could be fun.
Why would that matter?
At one time, Sweden considered building their own nuclear bomb.
For the record, Brittany is the one on their left, and Abigail on their right.
They have to cooperate to drive a car:
Maybe they’d be naturals for piloting a Jaeger?
The White Sox are off to their worst start in the history of their franchise.
It’s often interesting to discover what the lyrics of a song are really about. When I was a kid, Eddie Grant’s “Electric Avenue” was just a cool song on the radio. I recently discovered that Electric Avenue is actually a real place of some historical significance:
It makes for a catchy song title - but the main thrust of the lyrics is the 1981 Brixton riot, which happened in a nearby African-Caribbean community that had been suffering through high crime, unemployment, and racist policing:
I thought it was a reference to some kind of drug experience. Of course like most other songs I had no idea what the rest of the lyrics were.
Today I learned that 44 years ago, on April 13, 1980, relief pitcher Dan Quisenberry entered a game for the Kansas City Royals in the 8th inning. Behind the plate was reserve catcher Jamie Quirk. And just like that, the first all ‘Q’ battery in Major League history was formed.
So I was replacing the batteries in my main calculator today. (It’s from the late 80s, btw.)
After installing I ran some tests. One of my favorite ones is to put in a random value and next start an iteration on the formula 1+1/Ans (where Ans is the last value calculated). This iterates quite quickly to the Golden Ratio.
I wondered what would happen if I used 1-1/Ans instead. I hoped it would converge on the GR’s little brother: 1-GR.
But no, it cycled thru 3 values. I wondered if the start value was special so I tried another. Same deal. Tried several others. As long as I didn’t start with 0 or 1 it seemed to always cycle thru 3 values.
I’ve seen lots of such simple iterations that cycle thru two values, but 3?
A bit of algebra showed that this wasn’t a fluke. As long as you avoid the ones that get you dividing by zero, it was always going to be a cycle of 3. And for a formula that’s a slight variant of the one for the GR.
Wow. Moleeds.
Which is surprising considering all of the gold plundered from the Americas by the Spanish. Where did all of that gold go? Well, Unca Cecil Says…
Dribbled away?
To be clear, it’s not always the same three values. But it starts cycling immediately, not after a convergence process. In other words, one of the values in the cycle is whatever you started with.
A man was voted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2000, the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2006, the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in 2009 and into the United States Speed Skating Hall of Fame in 2013.
One source states the man didn’t like to skate.
That was Frank Zamboni, inventor of the Zamboni ice resurfacer (h/t Tom Scott’s Lateral Podcast).
In 1962, the New York Mets became the first team to have two players with the same first and last names: Bob Miller and Bob Miller.
Since then, one other team repeated that feat: the 2000 New York Mets, with Bobby Jones and Bobby Jones.
Do Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey not count because of the “Sr., Jr.”?
Very cool
Algebraically if your starting value is x, then your first result will be 1 - 1/x. Your second result will be -1/(x -1) and your third result will be x, starting the whole process over. As long as x is not equal to 0 or 1.
Science! has cloned two more black-footed ferrets from genes obtained from another clone, thusly increasing their number. Science!
I also learned about frozen zoos from the article.
I think I just stumbled across the fact that you watch Lateral with Tom Scott (or at least the segments that show up on Tik Tok) 