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Perplexing the Web, One Probability Puzzle at a Time quantamagazine.org/perplexing-the… "There’s 'nothing more exhilarating than posing a multiple-choice problem on which 50,000 people do substantially worse than random chance'".

Abbott, L., Gaudenzi, R. Theoretical Physics and Theoretical Neuroscience: What Each Can Learn from the Other. Human Arenas (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s42087…

Herbert A. (2024). Is Life Intransitive? In: Herbert A. (2024). Flipons: The Discovery of Z-DNA and Soft-Wired Genomes. CRC Press. doi.org/10.1201/978100…

Herbert A. (2019). Contextual Cell Death in Adaptive Immunity: Selecting a Winning Response Winning the game “Rock, Scissors, Paper” depends on what others do. Does the adaptive immune system use the same intransitive logic to select winners? doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.…

One of the most common criticisms of our social media films, other than 'I hate maths', is 'no offence bru, but what use is this?' Sometimes the answer is 'none whatsoever', but in this case it does at least allow grown-ups to play with their toys.

Martin Gardner tweet Soft cells and the geometry of seashells. doi.org/10.1093/pnasne… "Many tilings in Nature are characterized by shapes with curved edges and nonflat faces. We introduce a new class of shapes minimizing the number of sharp corners and filling space as soft tilings."

Martin Gardner tweet Bradley Efron about invention of his intransitive dice mathworld.wolfram.com/EfronsDice.html described in (Gardner, 1970) Narasimhan, B. An interview with Bradley Efron doi.org/10.1111/insr.1…

Jaeger et al. (2024). Naturalizing relevance realization: why agency and cognition are fundamentally not computational doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.…

New @SciAm piece on legacy of Martin Gardner scientificamerican.com/article/math-a… including interview with G4G Chair Colm Mulcahy

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Martin Gardner tweet Candle Swap by Oskar van Deventer youtube.com/watch?v=-oh7Zp…

Martin Gardner tweet What would Gardner write about geometry of reciprocal frame structures? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciproca… link.springer.com/article/10.100… Popovic Larsen. Reciprocal frame architecture (2005)

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John Kounios It is interesting how different people's brain activity is related to negative (Uh‐oh!) insights. Gillian Hill is studying them Emotion and Insight bear.buckingham.ac.uk/233/1/Hill_201… doi.org/10.1002/jocb.1… doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.…

Friday, February 21, 2025 at 12 noon Atlanta time: "Algebra and Serendipity: The Beautiful Mathematics of vZome" live presentation with Scott Vorthmann – gathering4gardner.org/com-2025-02-21

The five-player intransitive dice problem is solved reddit.com/r/math/comment…

Intransitively winning chess players’ positions--like in rock-paper-scissors game In Doklady Mathematics doi.org/10.1134/S10645… Full text: rdcu.be/efzwS