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A French skyscraper climber nicknamed Spiderman was arrested Thursday after he scaled The New York Times 52-story midtown tower to draw attention to global warming.Alain Robert unfurled a banner as he climbed that said Global warming kills more people than a 9/11 every week. Hundreds of people craned their necks to watch his climb up the exterior of the new tower designed by Renzo Piano. Workers cheered from a construction site across the street, and Robert pumped his fist.Police took him into custody at the top. Charges against the 45-year-old Robert were pending, a police spokesman said.Robert s Web site says he has climbed more than 70 skyscrapers around the world. H
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You ;ve been cutting your cakes wrong, says Math. Here a better, more mathematically accurate method for slicing up a cake. In this video from Numberphile, Alex Bellos digs up a more than 100-year-old edition of Nature and reads a letter to the editor from Francis Galton detailing Galton method for cutting a Christmas cake though mathematically, birthday cakes and everyday cakes can also be substituted so as to keep it fresh over days. The traditional method of cutting the cake into wedges Galton regards with particular horror, as likely to result in a dry, disap
stanley cup pointing mess. So what does Galton suggest instead Cutting into chords, then tying the cake edges together, as you can see demonstrated in the video below. Bellos describes Galton method as perfect for the mathematical loners who don ;t want to share their cakes. Of course, there also a pretty good mathematical and social ar
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