Read the article, sport.

It’s explained in the article.

Another fascinating read on this subject is The Eudaemonic Pie. Some California whiz kids in the late ‘70s decide to use the newly available microprocessor to beat Las Vegas. They study the games and find, amazingly, that the most predictable is roulette. Their method hinges on the practice of allowing betting to…

Most courageous kinja ever, admitting to voting for this guy.

Glad you’re not 2 legit 2 edit, Tim.

Really trying to test out the “Stevie Wonder isn’t blind” theory, eh Tim?

Black woman here: I’m not seeing “crazed and violent” any more than I am seeing “racist.” Which is to say not at all. That looks like a caricature I would draw of a corrupt politician who happens to be black if I could draw it. I first looked that that picture without reading the text to the right, and thought "looks…

Black guy here with his opinion and his opinion alone: nope, not to me.

This is probably the best-pitched game I’ve ever seen. I remember Chili Davis being sort of sheepish about the home run and basically explaining that he’d had nothing to do with it.

My father used to have such a beard. He called it a Three-Quarters Nelson, because he was bad at both math and cultural references. On sunny Thursday afternoons, he would trot at a fair yet cautious pace on all his forelegs to the nearby Haire Stor, which was owned and operated by our dyslexic neighbor, Sameul. This…

Only if they’re smart. Which means no.

That’s one of the new questions raised by New Horizons. Pluto’s surface appears much younger than was expected. From what we know, a young surface is evidence of geological activity. But how can something as small as Pluto still be geologically active? But... if it’s not, why is its surface so young?

It’s possible that the massive collision between Pluto and Charon was enough to generate a subsurface ocean. If it did, a neat feedback loop could keep that ocean from completely freezing, enabling icy tectonics. Read more about collisions & subsurface oceans here.

Someone needs to be in charge of names. For astronomers, that’s the International Astronomer’s Union. As long as the definition is consistently applied, then it doesn’t particularly matter what that name is. Dwarf planet, minor planet, small solar system body... Whatever name we like best, it makes sense to pull Pluto…