Years ago, bored at work, I used to come up with sets of random questions to throw at my co-workers (I was their boss, so they had to live with my eccentricities). They could be about science, history, geography, grammar, music, anything. The rules of the game, as they evolved, required that I couldn’t pose a question I wasn’t able to answer myself off the top of my head, which gave me an opportunity to carry on like the intolerable show-off I so rarely have any means to be. After a couple of years I’d thrown literally hundreds of questions … Continue reading Your Daily Mind-Bender, Issue #1: The Nature of Light