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Walking Randomly asks: what's the smallest positive integer that gives no Google hits? I don't know exactly, but it's in the hi...

Two babies born at 8:08 am on 8/8/08, weighing eight pounds, eight ounces , both in the United States. How many would you expect? The 2007 c...

In genetics they have a unit called the centimorgan. This unit is a unit of what is called recombinant frequency , and it doesn't seem...

I find myself interested in the weather, both because my main means of transportation is walking, and because it's a complex system that...

Stephen at Freakonomics asks: What I want to hear about is the 7 lbs.-7 oz. kid who was born at 7:07 a.m. on 7/7/07. Any leads? She will pr...

There were six homicides in Philadelphia yesterday. The headline in the Philadelphia Inquirer is "Summer's beginning: Six dead i...