paradoxes

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Mr. Miles tackles the brutal paradoxes of ecological conservation with unexpected comedic flair.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

Time-travel paradoxes rest on the false premise that events exist as revisitable locations.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025

Leo highlighted the "outrageous paradoxes" by which enormous amounts of food go wasted in the world "while multitudes of people scramble to find something in the garbage to put in their mouths".

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

“It speaks to the various paradoxes around this — it’s a movement that ebbs and flows,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2025

In my book Mathematics and Humor I tried to show that both activities are forms of intellectual play, which often find common ground in brainteasers, puzzles, games, and paradoxes.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos