Units of time

You Don’t Have to Play Chess to Be the Queen

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I have three chess puzzles for you this week, but you don’t need to know the rules of chess for two of them. These two are variants of the famous eight queens puzzle, which asks solvers to position eight queens on an eight-by-eight board such that no two queens attack each other. The eight queens … Read more

io9 Studies From the Picket Line

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The scene at thirty third and tenth was anticipatory; everybody was prepared for this. Earlier this week, in “the canyon” between the HBO workplaces and Amazon headquarters in New York Metropolis’s Hell’s Kitchen, an enormous group of marchers picketed for almost 4 hours in assist of the Writers Guild of America. io9 was there speaking … Read more