Writing Fakes

In London, the Dulwich Picture Gallery (est. 1817) is running a competition. It claims to be displaying 269 genuine paintings by such Masters as Rembrandt, Rubens, Poussin... It is also displaying one known fake painting, commissioned by the Gallery itself. The game is to spot which is the fake. One has to assume that the …

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Writing In Freefall?

    The Legend NASA invested millions of dollars developing a ball-point pen that would work in micro-gravity. The ink flows only if there is sufficient gravity pulling it towards the tip. To test this, try writing on your ceiling and see how many pages of "War and Peace" you manage. The Russians solved this …

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Writing While Swimming

I have decided to exercise regularly in 2015. The treadmill in the den is too easy to walk away from when inspiration strikes. Not so with swimming - once you're in the water it's hard to walk away and immediately start typing. Oh, and in the cause of precision, when I say "regularly",  I should …

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