Have you ever read a book that just sticks with you for a long time? For me, it's The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. There's a lot of great stuff in there, ...

For anyone who has ever had their ass handed to them in a game of pool, take comfort knowing that in the end, physics beats everything. A physicist has calculated how many collisions it takes for ...