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Mathematical Uncertainty
It is estimated that it took a workforce of 12,800 to build the Khufu’s pyramid in Egypt over a period of 23 years. This was calculated by working out the potential energy of the pyramid and dividing it by the number of days spent constructing it. It is all guesswork because nobody actually knows how…
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Cut the string
When we face disappointment, sorrow, despair and outright opposition that leaves us bewildered with hurt, pain and hopelessness, then there is a Biblical text that will help us. We all need a jerk into action at some time in our lives; an applied force that will redirect our focus when worry and sorrow turns our…
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Prison
Two university studies have unearthed two alarming yet inter-related facts. “Boys who grow up without a father are twice as likely to be jailed later in life as boys who grow up with their dad. Boys who grow up with a stepfather are three times more likely to be incarcerated.”[1] The second area of investigation…
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Pigeon Sense
A group of Zoologists now believe that the phrase “as the crow flies” no longer means the shortest most direct route between two points. “They say it is likely that the crows and other diurnal birds choose AA-suggested routes even though it makes their journeys longer.” It seems that some birds are so rigorous in…
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