There's a lot of data online: people's blogs, emails, and social media posts. So how do companies mine that text for information? And what does it have to do with the gothic tone of Dracula and Frankenstein?

Imagine you have a coupon for free ice cream, but you have to spend exactly $17.25. How can you solve this and get your free ice cream? And what does it have to do with chemistry?

Cutting things in half is such an important idea, it shows up all over the place. So what does it have to do with cake, wine cellars, cootie testing, and the number of particles in the universe?

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We've already heard about turning sausages back into pigs... But how can we use the world around us (e.g., half a box of uncooked spaghetti noodles) to do all the work?

Someone offers you an envelope filled with cash... but there's chance that a second envelope has more $ in it. Do you switch?

You have a pile of bolts and a pile of hex nuts and they don't all fit together. How do you pair them up?

Fibonacci numbers come up in the strangest places. What do they have to do with breeding rabbits, converting between miles and kilometers, and how Google works?

Multiple testing failure is one of the biggest threats to scientific progress. But what does it have to do with online dating?