The New Yorker's Monica Lisa

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Why God Never Received Tenure at Any University

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You have two sticks. Each takes exactly one hour to burn. The speed at which each burns is neither uniform nor the same for the two. How would you measure 45 minutes? 

Three lamps are in one room. The three switches are in another. You can visit each room only once. How would you tell which switch corresponds to which lamp? 

Find the limit, as N goes to infinity, of the broken part (i.e., x-integer(x)) of: (2+Ö2)^N