The big-hearted man who saw through the goose's bluff, wanting to prove its strength to its mate, and gifted it the victory of a lifetime... The goose's proud walk.
The amount of people voting no on this is wild!
The asymmetry of this bet is so obscene that "no" is philosophically unserious unless a $1,000 loss genuinely destroys you.
In 1997, Brazilian soccer player Roberto Carlos took a free kick from 35 meters against France that seemed to defy the laws of physics as it curved around a wall of defenders at an angle that seemed impossible.
This “miracle goal” led a team of French physicists to publish a study in the journal New Journal of Physics, in which they explained that the extreme spin and speed created a “spinning spiral of the ball” that overcame gravity and air resistance.
If you’re serious about playing poker for a living, take a basic statistics class.
Variance, sample size, and long-run expectations are hard to fully grasp without it.
Free options:
• Khan Academy: https://t.co/7YketDswLt
• Stanford (free to audit): https://t.co/T2fD4dtxV3
It's not a massive, ornate iron gate.
It's an optical illusion staircase by Spanish visual artist Gonzalo Borondo, chosen as the best urban artwork in France.