Academic publications are judged, mainly, on two grounds: correctness and importance. A paper which contains incorrect statements should, unquestionably, be rejected from publication. However, importance is a more subjective issue. Typical rejection message related to importance are: "You prese...

In Arqade, the featured tab had a blue square with the number 1 in it, meaning that there is a question with a bounty on it. But surprisingly, it said that there weren't any featured questions at the time, even after refreshing the page three times in a row: This is weird since the featured ta...

I occasionally find myself with a lump of dough which I want to divide into three equally sized pieces (like for making 3 pizza bases). I could weigh it but it typically means getting the scales out and dirty and having to cut pieces off and re-knead them into the dough. Eye-balling kinda works b...