- TIL: The now-late Stephen Hawking settled a bet he lost with theoretical physicist John Preskill by giving him the 8th Edition of Total Baseball: The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia. Preskill requested it because he is a big fan of Bill James and baseball statistics. http://www.theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/jp_24jul04.html 17 comments baseball
- A 2-dimensional universe? http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/preskill/blackhole_bet.html 44 comments science