NOTE: Newest BTs in red, Bonuses in blue, comments in green, updates in purple. In 1982, T.R. Benker set a joke-telling record. He told jokes continuously for 1803 minutes. How much longer than one day did he tell jokes? The widest street in the world is the Monumental Axis in Brasilia, Brazil. It has 6 […]
Author: Larry Campbell
Summary: Solutions & Solvers – Jan/Feb 19 BTs
Jan/Feb ’19 Brain Teasers – SUMMARY REMINDER: Answers in red. Solvers (submitted/correct) in blue. (Forgive any omissions, but feel free to inform.) Comments in green. For further elaboration, please feel free to ask! (An oldie-but-goodie! Too easy?) I have two coins that add up to 55 cents, but one of them is not a nickel. […]
Fibonacci’s Early Career
Teaching!
Best Country?
Goodbye 50 Coins: Wrapping Up the Adventures
In the past two columns, we’ve had fun with an anecdote centered on Marilyn vos Savant and we’ve taken a related side trip into teaching/encouraging creativity in general. It’s now time to put a final bow on this whole 50Coins/Marilyn/problem-solving/creativity discussion and move on, don’t you think? Perhaps you’ll recall that this whole adventure started […]
50 Years!!
Feb 22, 1969 – Feb 22, 2019. No change at all! 🙂 2015 Happy 50th to the Campbells!
NG Photographer
Dog Poop Instructions?
Calvin & Hobbes, Marilyn, and Developing Creativity
Previously in this space, we had some fun recalling an anecdote involving one of Marilyn vos Savant’s long-ago columns and connecting it to one of her very recent columns. We also explored the educational issues involved and asked some pertinent questions about finding creative solutions to general problems, including when one could ‘break the rules’, […]
