"Randomness" Blogs & Blog Posts

Researchers at the University of Amsterdam recently made a surprising discovery that challenges long-held assumptions about the randomness of coin tossing. After flipping coins over 350,000 times, the largest study of its kind, they found that coins...

For the longest time, commercials were something that you had to accept. They still are in some ways, but modern viewing practices provide several evasive options for dealing with ads. Whether you speed search with your DVR or snipe the "skip ad" but...

Over 65 years ago the Rand Corporation built an "electronic roulette wheel" to generate random numbers. It recorded the binary numbers, converted them to decimal numbers, and published a book, A Million Random Digits (download a free electronic versi...

Rough metal dice, fresh off the forge! Dice so heavy and clunky and sharp you can ruin tables and kill cheats without brandishing a dagger. But is this ren-faire fun fair play? I decided to put them to the test and see how random they were. I'm not g...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3SN97v4Q6k Emily writes, "64oz Games is working once again to improve Braille accessibility in popular board games, this time in tabletop RPGs. This kickstarter will allow them to purchase a high resolution 3d prin...

To quote Steve Jobs, creativity is just connecting things . You may argue there’s more to it than that, but it has a lot to do with finding unique ways to connect the dots. Designer and researcher Balder Onarheim suggests boosting creativity with a...

Somebody found this tree stump in Florida and posted it to Reddit. So I thought, why not a post about Lovecraft? H.P. Lovecraft might not have been the best writer, and he was quite a racist, but he created one of the creepiest mythoses ever, one tha...