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Did Abraham de Moivre Predict His Own Death?
According to the website I was perusing, found here, it stated that a mathematician named Abraham de Moivre, predicted the date of his own death (using some nonsensical method of when he had slept for ...
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Can a cup of coffee be used as a barometer?
A recent Instructable was picked up by Lifehacker. It states:
When you pour the coffee into your cup, watch the bubbles.
If the bubbles move to the edge of the cup rather quickly, that's a ...
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Can Bruce Bueno de Mesquita predict the future with mathematics?
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is called the "New Nostradamus". According to his claims he is able to predict (and has predicted) big economic events such as the 2009 economic crisis. Supposedly he has a ...
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Can cows accurately predict when it is going to rain?
And do they show when they know it's going to rain by lying down, as the common saying suggests. Or is this just folklore?
A quote on this Discovery Channel discussion board says this:
Cows are ...
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Is long-term weather prediction effective?
The Farmer's Almanac is used by many farmers to time plantings, harvesting, fertilizing, etc., based upon the results of "long-term weather prediction". Is there any evidence that such predictions ...
