Читаем А что, если?.. полностью

http://books.google.com/books?id=RskHAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Counting Characters

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/counting-characters

A Mathematical Theory of Communication

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pdf

LEGO-мост

How tall can a Lego tower get?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20578627

Investigation Into the Strength of Lego Technic Beams and Pin Connections

http://eprints.usq.edu.au/20528/1/Lostroh_LegoTesting_2012.pdf

Total value of property in London soars to £1.35 trn

http://www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/total-value-of-property-in-london-soars-to-135trn-8779991.html

Случайный чих

Cari Nieren berg. The Perils of Sneezing, ABC News. Dec. 22, 2008

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ColdandFluNews/story?id=6479792&page=1

Bischoff Werner E., Miche lle L. Wallis, Brian K. Tucker, Beth A. Re-boussin, Michael A. Pfaller, Frederick G. Hayden, and Robert J. Sherertz. ‘Gesundheit!’ Sneezing, Common Colds, Allergies, and Staphylococcus aureus Dispersion // J Infect Dis. (2006), 194 (8). P. 1 119–1126. doi:10.1086/507908.

Annual Rates of Lightning Fatalities by Country

http://www.vaisala.com/Vaisala%20Documents/Scientific%20papers/Annual_rates_of_lightning_fatalities_by_country.pdf

Расширяющаяся Земля

Wu, X., X. Collilieux, Z. Altamimi, B. L. A. Vermeersen, R. S. Gross, and I. Fukumori. Accuracy of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame origin and Earth expansion, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38,

L13304. 2011. doi:10.1029/2011GL047450: In conclusion, no statistically significant present expansion rate is detected by our study within the current measurement uncertainty of 0.2 mm yr-1.

http://repository.tudelft.nl/view/ir/uuid%3A72ed93c0-d13e-427c8c5f-f013b737750e/

Lawrence Grybosky. Thermal Expansion and Contraction

http://www.engr.psu.edu/ce/courses/ce584/concrete/library/cracking/thermalexpansioncontraction/thermalexpcontr.htm

Sasselov, Dimitar D. The life of super-Earths: How the hunt for alien worlds and artificial cells will revolutionize life on our planet. New York: Basic Books, 2012.

Franz, R. M. and P. C. Schutte. Barometric hazards within the context of deep-level mining // The Journal of The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

Plummer, H. C. Note on the motion about an attracting centre of slowly increasing mass // Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 66. P. 83

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1906MNRAS..66…83P

Невесомая стрела

Hunting Arrow Selection Guide: Chapter 5

http://www.huntersfriend.com/carbon_arrows/hunting_arrows_selection_guide_chapter_5.htm

USA Archery Records, 2009

http://www.usaarcheryrecords.org/FlightPages/2009/2009%20World%20Regular%20Flight%20Records.pdf

Air flow around the point of an arrow

http://pip.sagepub.com/content/227/1/64.full.pdf

STS-124: KIBO, NASA

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/228145main_sts124_presskit2.pdf

Земля без Солнца

The extreme magnetic storm of 1–2 September 1859

http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/8787/1/02-1310.pdf

Tsurutani T. B. et al. Geomagnetic Storms // Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 108, № A7, 1268, 2003. doi:10.1029/2002JA009504

http://www.oecd.org/governance/risk/46891645.pdf

Roger A. Pielke Jr. et al. Normalized Hurricane Damage in the United States: 1900–2005

http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/resource-2476-2008.02.pdf

Impacts of Federal-Aid Highway Investments Modeled by NBIAS