mysteries

1. Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out"? 2. Why do toasters always have a setting that burns toast to a horrible crisp which no decent human being would ever eat? 3. Did you ever notice that when you...

What do consumers have in common with earthquakes? Both, researchers say, broadly conform to patterns described by a formula known as Zipf's law. In the 1930s, the Harvard linguist George Kingsley Zipf found that "the" - the most-used English word - occurred about twice as often as "of"'...