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Book Reviews

Bewilderment

Richard Powers ★★★★★ 4/5 Science Fiction Superbly written—too many themes If you pick up Richard Powers’ Bewilderment, regardless of your literary inclinations, you will agree that it is a tender,

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Dynamite Deal

Logic; Difficulty: easy, medium Are you a savvy enough salesperson to close this deal? Puzzle worm Sandi Sandman sent me this interesting puzzle that took me multiple tries to get

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Math

Polarizing Puzzler

Logic, Trigonometry ; Difficulty: Easy A Polarizing Puzzler from The Riddler This week’s Riddler Classic about polarized light is a math+physics puzzle. The question is reproduced below from the Riddler

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Auto-Tune (up)

Logic; Difficulty: easy The Riddler: The Auto Tune up I’m late to this week’s Riddler Classic but figured I’d post this anyway since the limiting case might be interesting. You

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