Dovi's Digest Volume 29
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Hi All, and welcome to Volume 29 of Dovi’s Digest.
I’m away this week and am writing this from my hotel room. In lieu of an intro, I’m just going to leave you with these pics. Have a great week!
There were Zero correct answers to last week’s riddle. The answer and this week’s brainteaser are below.
Keep those articles (and everything else) coming!
All the best
Dovi
And now, the articles:
Is this the most powerful word in the English language?
The most commonly-used word in English might only have three letters – but it packs a punch.
Satan Scourges Us With It: A Brief History Of Carpeted Mormon Basketball
(Courtesy of Yisroel Greenberg)
How can I write a tagline for that?
Clifford V. Johnson Has the Coolest Job in Physics. Here’s How He Got There
A scientist with an IMDB page explains how to shape your early career.
The Few, the Proud, the White: The Marine Corps Balks at Promoting Generals of Color
A respected, combat-tested Black colonel has been passed over three times for promotion to brigadier general. What does his fate say about the Corps?
Shopify Saved Main Street. Next Stop: Taking On Amazon
The Canadian e-commerce company is breathing down Silicon Valley’s neck as the next great enterprise behemoth.
Lessons in the Decline of Democracy From the Ruined Roman Republic
A new book argues that violent rhetoric and disregard for political norms was the beginning of Rome’s end.
A TikTok House Divided
You’re 19 years old. You get famous overnight. You move to LA. Now what?
Quote of the Week:
“One has to look out for engineers – they begin with sewing machines and end up with atomic bombs.” – Marcel Pagnol
Facts of the Week:
It can take a photon 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to earth.
A small percentage of the static you see on "dead" tv stations is left over radiation from the Big Bang. You're seeing residual effects of the Universe's creation.
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
If you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth, the entire world population could fit into an apple.
Dead people can get goose bumps.
Cartoon of the Week: (Courtesy of Daniel Rabinovitch)
Brainteaser of the Week:
A thief enters a shop and forces the cashier to open the safe. The cashier says, “The code for the safe is different every day, and if you hurt me you’ll never get the code”. But the thief managed to guess the code on his own. How did he do it?
Last week’s Brainteaser and answer:
A man goes into a barber shop and gets a haircut for $15. He pays the barber with a $20 bill, but the barber doesn’t have change. The barber goes to the neighbouring flower shop and trades the $20 bill for a $10 dollar bill and two $5 bills. Then he gives the man his $5 in change.
Later the lady from the flower shop confronts the barber and tells him that the $20 bill he gave her was counterfeit money. The barber agrees and he gives the lady a different $20 bill.
Later that day he tries to figure out how much money he lost. How much money did the barber lose?
Answer:
The barber lost $5 in cash.
The lady from the flower shop gave $20 to the barber and eventually got her $20 back.
The man who got the haircut, gave nothing except the counterfeit money and got $5 back. So the barber lost $5 in cash but lost $15 in revenue as he got counterfeit money for the haircut.
Let’s say the barber had $20 initially. He got a $20 bill for the haircut and after paying the man the $5 change, he had a balance of $35. The barber then gave $20 to the lady from the flower shop in exchange for the counterfeit money which brought his balance to $15. So, the barber made a loss of $5, since his balance after the haircut was $15 from the initial amount of $20.
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