May 2012
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May 16th
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May 15th
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May 10th
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May 9th
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May 7th
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Avengers Assemble! (Or at least some Fun Facts...
Planning on seeing The Avengers this weekend? Us too. To celebrate, we have assembled some Avenger themed fun facts. Thinking about marathoning each movie before seeing The Avengers? That will take you 10 hours and 1 minute:  The Avengers is expected to do incredibly well this weekend, adding to the already impressive total combined box office numbers of the previous movies: A special...
May 3rd
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Fun with QWERTY
Words that can be typed with only the left hand: Words that can be typed with only the right hand:
May 2nd
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May 1st
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April 2012
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Apr 30th
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A submitted WolframFunFact from one of our Twitter followers: The US and China have almost the same total area.  They also have about a billion more people than the United States: Thanks to @BerkeleyBrett for the submission!
Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 18th
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Overcoming Artificial Stupidity
Stephen Wolfram, the creator of Wolfram|Alpha, just wrote a great blog post about how Wolfram|Alpha is “on average giving complete, successful responses to more than 90% of the queries entered on its website”. Along the way we saw some great examples of “artificial stupidity: places where Wolfram|Alpha gets the wrong idea, and applies its version of ‘artificial...
Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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