From Agatha Christie doing the dishes to the cancer surgeon inspired at the theatre, an idling brain suddenly seems able to join the dots If you really want to solve a problem, try doing nothing about ...

This paper studies the fair influence maximization problem with efficient algorithms. In particular, given a graph G, a community structure C consisting of disjoint communities, and a budget k, the ...

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H ave you ever met a Zionist Foucauldian? Some 30 years ago, I half-jokingly asked my fellow graduate students in a social-theory course if they had ever encountered such a creature. No one had. The ...

We walk through an optimization problem step by step, clearly explaining how to identify variables, set up the correct function, apply derivatives, and find maximum or minimum values. Each step is ...

For many years of my golf life, I was the worst type of person to be around on the golf course. The angry, miserable golfer who was constantly in woe-is-me mode after every shot. My good friend Will, ...

The Advent season begins this Sunday, and that means The Sound of Music will soon be on television in the United States. The ABC network airs the film classic starring Julie Andrews and Christopher ...

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When I was 10, my best friend taught me how to make a flamethrower. We duct-taped a can of WD-40 to one end of a two-by-four, melted a candle onto the other, and prepared for imaginary enemy marauders ...