Some Puzzles
Posted by John Baez
Grr! I’m too busy trying to finish that Rosetta Stone paper to post anything really interesting, or even reply sensibly to the posts by my co-bloggers. So, just a few puzzles…
- Who is the world’s youngest billionaire, and how did they get so rich?
- Why is the word ‘skirt’ so similar to the word ‘shirt’?
- Which object, by moving 4 millimeters per second faster than expected, might help cause a revolution in physics?
Of course, everything can be discovered using Google and Wikipedia these days. That’s cheating.
Re: Some Puzzles
1 is Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook. (I know a guy who was at Harvard at the same time as Zuckerberg, and did a little bit of work on Facebook, but took his payment in cash instead of in a share of future profits as was offered to him. Of course he regrets this decision.)