You and I go out to eat at a conveyer-belt sushi restaurant. It serves four types of sushi: ahi roll, Boston roll, caterpillar roll and dragon roll. We each have access to our own conveyer belt that ...

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Meet Tom, a seasoned voyager in the realm of RPGs and MMORPGs, where the virtual landscapes of games like Final Fantasy 14 are his domain. With an impressive track record spanning nine years as a ...

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Mathematics games encourage both children and adults to keep in touch with the subject. Here are some Math game apps that will help your child enjoy the subject: This app is vibrant and colorful. It ...

We know all four shapes are the same before and after, but we assumed that the large right triangle also stayed the same size and shape. This assumption was our error! It turns out that the “before” ...