Updated: 2023-03-27 14:40:00
“Follow your heart!” This is the most common advice for young people contemplating their future career path. This is not good advice. At some point in my life, the most popular aspiration among my friends’ children was to become opera singers. But the world only has room for a few opera singers. All of these […]
Updated: 2023-03-24 15:21:00
Puzzle. “I guarantee,” said the pet-shop clerk, “that this parrot will repeat every word it hears.” A customer bought the parrot but found it wouldn’t speak a single word. Nevertheless, the clerk told the truth. Explain. The official answer: Indeed, in this case, it is not a lie that the parrot will repeat every word […]
Updated: 2023-03-23 15:03:06
Puzzle. Alice and Bob divide a pie. Alice cuts the pie into two pieces. Then Bob cuts one of those pieces into two more pieces. Then Alice cuts one of the three pieces into two pieces. In the end, Alice gets the smallest and the largest piece, while Bob gets the two middle pieces. Given […]
Updated: 2023-03-21 15:32:09
Many years ago, I visited a distant country and rekindled my friendship with a nice couple, Alice and Bob. I changed the names and do not remember the exact words. But here is the story. One evening, I found myself chatting with Bob, and he decided to open up. He told me he was having […]
Updated: 2023-03-18 15:36:10
I invented this puzzle. It’s a variation of something I saw on Facebook. Puzzle. The future dinner of an anthropophagusphagusphagus met for dinner the past study object of an anthropophaguslogist. What’s for dinner? Share:
Updated: 2023-03-05 16:48:39
Here is a famous old joke about Russian propaganda. I heard it when Leonid Brezhnev was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Ronald Reagan was the president of the US. Joke. A Russian newspaper wrote an article about a two-person race between the Russian and the US leaders. They wrote, […]
