May 31

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Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that physicist Chien-Shiung Wu conducted the Wu experiment, which contradicted the law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved, yet this discovery resulted in her colleagues Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang winning the 1957 Nobel Prize in physics, with Wu not receiving public honors until 1978, with the inaugural Wolf Prize in Physics?

• ... that Pascal's calculator was used in time travel experiments as early as 1860?

Topic of the Day

Economics