It’s not hard to remember a different, strong password for every website
Let’s take it as a given that it’s a good idea to have a long password with upper case, lower …
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Trendiest baby names in social security
Trendiest baby names in the Social Security database (determined with an analytical chemistry technique) A few attempts have been made …
Graphing Problematic Aspects of us baby
Graphing the problematic aspects of the U.S. Baby Names dataset Every time I post about the popular U.S. Social Security …
Animated map of earthquakes near China and Japan, 1970-2013
If you prefer, you can watch this as a GIF or on YouTube. The animation above shows all earthquakes with epicenters in the …
Pi vs. tau: Ultimate Smackdown
Spoiler alert: there’s only a 0.1% chance any given 1-800 number will be found in pi or tau. What’s tau, …
Hurricanes with male names are at least as deadly as those with female names
Lots of new services have been passing on the startling conclusions of a recent academic paper in The Proceedings of the National …