Have you ever wondered where your outdoor cat goes all day? Well some scientists wondered the same thing and spent two years tracking pet cats as well as feral cats to map out how far they go each day. Some cats traveled pretty far. Kind of reminds me of that movie Homeward Bound.
The cats were fitted with radio collars and tracked over two years. Some of the collars also had devices that continuously monitored the cats’ every move.
We dont swim in your toilet so don’t pee in our pool.
Like little kids, we all experience a happy rush, a delighted thrill, when going to play at an amusement park. Yet when an amusement park is abandoned and an eerie silence settles over the rusty and crusty decay, the setting seems to twist the atmosphere of enthusiastic excitement into a suffocating blanket of dread. The place takes on creepy vibes and freaks people out. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and ripped the heart of fun and the amusement out of this park. Almost six years later, Six Flags in New Orleans is unnaturally silent, no lines and no laughter.
1) If the probability of observing a car in 30 minutes on a highway is 0.95, what is the probability of observing a car in 10 minutes (assuming constant default probability)?
2) Four people need to cross a rickety rope bridge to get back to their camp at night… Unfortunately, they only have one flashlight and it only has enough light left for seventeen minutes. The bridge is too dangerous to cross without a flashlight, and it’s only strong enough to support two people at any given time. Each of the campers walks at a different speed. One can cross the bridge in 1 minute, another in 2 minutes, the third in 5 minutes, and the slow poke takes 10 minutes to cross. How do the campers make it across in 17 minutes?
3) You are at a party with a friend and 10 people are present including you and the friend… Your friend makes you a wager that for every person you find that has the same birthday as you, you get $1; for every person he finds that does not have the same birthday as you, he gets $2. would you accept the wager?
4) What is the probability of breaking a stick into 3 pieces and forming a triangle?
The other day, having had enough of my own company, I was working on my laptop in a coffee shop, when a father and daughter sat down in the booth opposite me. I could clearly hear their conversation and – as you need both hands to eat a cupcake – I was idly listening to their conversation instead of writing.
The gist of the conversation was that the father and daughter had come daughter directly from the bank, having just opened up an ISA in her name. From what I could tell the father had made the maximum annual deposit (£5,340) into the ISA for the daughter with his money and was giving her a serious talking to about the things that the money could and could not be used for; i.e., shopping bad, university good.
There are few things in life that we find more traumatizing than having our passport photo taken. Even if your friends insist that you look nothing like a glassy-eyed serial killer in real life, it can be hard to believe them. That’s probably why we find Passport and Reality — a joint photo project by Suren Manvelyan and Biayna Mahari which we spotted over on Design You Trust — so intensely satisfying.
