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| Preface | |
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| Two's Company, Three's a Crowd | |
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| It's a Small World After All | |
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| Monkey Business | |
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| Independence Day | |
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| Rugby and Relativity | |
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| Wagons Roll | |
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| A Sense of Proportion | |
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| Why Does the Other Queue Always Move Faster? | |
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| Pylon of the Month | |
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| A Sense of Balance | |
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| Bridging That Gap | |
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| On the Cards | |
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| Tally Ho | |
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| Relationships | |
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| Racing Certainties | |
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| High Jumping | |
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| Superficiality | |
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| VAT in Eternity | |
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| Living in a Simulation | |
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| Emergence | |
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| How to Push a Car | |
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| Positive Feedback | |
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| The Drunkard's Walk | |
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| Faking It | |
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| The Flaw of Averages | |
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| The Origami of the Universe | |
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| Easy and Hard Problems | |
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| Is This a Record? | |
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| A Do-It-Yourself Lottery | |
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| I Do Not Believe It! | |
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| Flash Fires | |
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| The Secretary Problem | |
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| Fair Divorce Settlements: the Win-Win Solution | |
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| Many Happy Returns | |
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| Tilting at Windmills | |
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| Verbal Conjuring | |
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| Financial Investment with Time Travellers | |
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| A Thought for Your Pennies | |
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| Breaking the Law of Averages | |
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| How Long are Things Likely to Survive? | |
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| A President who Preferred the Triangle to the Pentagon | |
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| Secret Codes in Your Pocket | |
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| I've Got a Terrible Memory for Names | |
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| Calculus Makes You Live Longer | |
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| Getting in a Flap | |
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| Your Number's Up | |
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| Double Your Money | |
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| Some Reflections on Faces | |
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| The Most Infamous Mathematician | |
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| Roller Coasters and Motorway Junctions | |
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| A Taylor-made Explosion | |
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| Walk Please, Don't Run! | |
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| Mind-reading Tricks | |
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| The Planet of the Deceivers | |
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| How to Win the Lottery | |
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| A Truly Weird Football Match | |
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| An Arch Problem | |
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| Counting in Eights | |
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| Getting a Mandate | |
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| The Two-headed League | |
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| Creating Something out of Nothing | |
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| How to Rig an Election | |
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| The Swing of the Pendulum | |
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| A Bike with Square Wheels | |
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| How Many Guards Does an Art Gallery Need? | |
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| ...and What About a Prison? | |
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| A Snooker Trick Shot | |
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| Brothers and Sisters | |
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| Playing Fair with a Biased Coin | |
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| The Wonders of Tautology | |
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| What a Racket | |
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| Packing Your Stuff | |
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| Sent Packing Again | |
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| Crouching Tiger | |
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| How the Leopard Got His Spots | |
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| The Madness of Crowds | |
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| Diamond Geezer | |
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| The Three Laws of Robotics | |
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| Thinking Outside the Box | |
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| Googling in the Caribbean - The Power of the Matrix | |
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| Loss Aversion | |
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| The Lead in Your Pencil | |
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| Testing Spaghetti to Destruction | |
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| The Gherkin | |
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| Being Mean with the Price Index | |
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| Omniscience can be a Liability | |
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| Why People aren't Cleverer | |
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| The Man from Underground | |
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| There are No Uninteresting Numbers | |
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| Incognito | |
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| The Ice Skating Paradox | |
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| The Rule of Two | |
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| Segregation and Micromotives | |
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| Not Going with the Flow | |
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| Venn Vill They Ever Learn | |
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| Some Benefits of Irrationality | |
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| Strange Formulae | |
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| Chaos | |
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| All Aboard | |
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| The Global Village | |
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| Notes | |