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233 - The Puzzler - A. J. Jacobs

You Are Not So Smart

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The Sleeping Beauty Problem

The sleeping beauty problem has to do with probability. You wake up sleeping beauty, and you flip a coin; based on the coin, you do other things. A mathematician is an expert on it, but no one's quite sure what he or she knows. It gets into quanta mechanics and alternate worlds.

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