James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

People have been relying on the coin toss for quick, unbiased decision-making since ancient times. But is a coin flip 50/50? A new study questions the fairness of the flip. Your chances of stumbling ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

In sports, coin tosses are often used to decide who goes first, or pick who goes to bat for the first part of the game. It seems fair. You'd assume that as coins have two sides and you introduce a ...

The principle of inertia is a property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless that state is changed by an external force. We are ...

Legend holds that the city of Portland, Oregon, was nearly called Boston. A coin toss in 1845 between Francis Pettygrove, who hailed from a different Portland, in Maine, and Asa Lovejoy, from Boston ...

People love betting on the Super Bowl. They also love betting on the non-football-related aspects of the Super Bowl: the color of Gatorade dumped on the winning coach, the first song sung at halftime, ...