This blog is a demonstration of a magic trick called binary card magic. The trick starts out with you choosing a number between 1 to 63. Then after answering a series of yes and no questions, the trick will accurately guess your chosen number. For this demonstration though, we will use the simpler range: 1 to 31. Go on and try it out below!...

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The recent battle between the Lakers and the Mavericks treated us to a historical battle that features two opposing players with triple-double 30 points stat. One of the game's turning points was marked by a rather odd sequence that sends the game to overtime. Here's that point: Why odd? There are two reasons: First, Howard clearly fouls Curry but never received a call....

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Lately, I’ve been re-watching some episodes from the TV series Friends. And as I’ve watched, I’ve realized that there are still words and references that I don’t know about even after watching the series for so many times. So I’ve decided to create a dictionary containing all these words and references.  This blog will contain my journey in creating this dictionary project. I...

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This blog is part of my blog series FRIENDS Dictionary Project, which is an effort to create a dictionary containing all words, phrases, and popular culture references one might have missed while watching Friends. For season 1 episodes 1-6, here are the 13 words and phrases you might have missed:   1. a hump and a hairpiece In episode 1, Chandler used this phrase...

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As great as he is as a basketball player, Kevin Durant is widely regarded as just the second-best player in the NBA. As what fictional Patrick Beverly has said to this episode of "Game of Zones" at 2:52: "By the man who was always second best," fictional Patrick Beverly said to fictional Durant. Just second best to the man who is regarded as...

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