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I live in a small midwestern town, Sullivan, IL. I live directly across from the courthouse which is located on the town square. The town has a population of about 4400 people. The other morning I stepped out of my apartment building to discover, directly in front of my place, on the square...

Why doesn't my calculator, computer, even google say that the square root of 4 is 2 AND -2? Aren't both of them the square root of 4? (Now, on to moving the hair from my forehead, so it doesn't get in the way of my hand!)

After muttering through Godel I have decided to try something fun. Maybe this should go into Puzzles, but this is the math area... It has been said (somewhere here ) that a square cannot be a circle (sorry, a cube cannot be a sphere). Hence the challenge: prove (using the geometry of your...

Methink the great one has slipped up a little in this paragraph: I don't buy the prayer claim for a minute. But assuming there were to be a god involved, I don't think we can say that there would be any attenuation. Since the usual concept of the christian god is that it is omnipresent, it...

Source "permanent majority"??? "put God back into the public square"? What direction are they planning on leading the country in? to be fair, I can't find any other source confirming the quote. I don't know if it is accurate or even true.

What is it? Perhaps this is a stupid question, but it's been bugging me all week. And any links to pages expaining the answer would be nice. Thanks.

The LA county board of supervisors voted to remove a small cross, symbolic of part of the history of LA, from the county seal. They also voted to remove (get this!) the Roman goddess Pomona, replacing her with a female injun. All this after a threat from the ACLU. Government may not...

I just visited a site called timecube that to tell you the truth is beyond my comprehension skills. I'm guessing this guy shouldn't be left alone with small children or house pets. But hey, general relativity was difficult for me so who knows. What is squaring the circle? Is this a...

The tienanmen square incident is another place where anti-communists get right and wrong completely confused. Thousands of students and others gathered in the heart of Beijing to challenge the Chinese government in the late 80s. The leaders of that time Teng and Li Peng called out the army, and...

For all you math and physics buffs. The very first time I learned of just one application of this law, I thought to myself that this practically proved the existance of God. To have such a formulation work out such that...well, the inverse square. It's of such exacting order, if you know what I...

Oh, dear. . . Place your bets now on how soon the $cientologists will be doing this.