A few people noticed this week that theJeopardy Contestant Zone page was showing the contestants’ losing outfits instead of their Day 1 outfits (they did this often at the end of last season too.) Previously, the outfit on Contestant Zone was almost always the Day 1 outfit . A Reddit post regarding this seems to have caught the attention of the Jeopardy web team, because all the photos for this week were switched this afternoon — including Nam’s from Monday and Tuesday.

I’ve spent the best part of the past three years working on a book called Material World. The elevator pitch is that it’s an attempt to tell the story of the modern world (and a bit of its history and future) from the vantage point of six important substances upon which civilisation depends. Those materials are as follows: Sand, the foundations of the modern world, the silicon substrate from which we make glass, concrete and even silicon chips.

A few months ago an old friend from high school sent me a text about the Immaculate Grid, an online baseball trivia game. I checked it out quickly and didn’t understand it. However, I went back to it a few weeks later and became hooked. Now the Immaculate Grid is like a warmup exercise for my day. It allows me to start thinking about obscure baseball pl… ncG1vNJzZmikmaOwsLjNpqCtm5iaua160q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnp52utXnIr5xmpJWWv6%2Bxw2adq6edYsGpsYyipKaZk6q5osDE

A private detective in Los Angeles is asked to find a girl who’s gone missing. At the same time, he discovers his wife is cheating on him. He confronts his wife, but nothing is resolved. He follows the girl's trail to the Florida Keys. He finds her staying with her step-father and his on-again off-again girlfriend. On a day trip out in a boat, this odd group comes across the underwater wreckage of a small airplane.

Share The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. F. Scott Fitzgerald This quote is often cited by those seeking to demonstrate a first-rate mind, although more often than not, they are guilty of category error in that what they compare are not opposed ideas so much as seemingly opposed but really quite different ideas.