Mini Week

Mini Week was a series of 5 posts by Tim Urban on the blog Wait But Why on the week of March 7, 2014 (Monday) to March 13, 2014 (Sunday, though the last post was released on Saturday), where he tried to write one mini post each weekday of that week, except not all of them were mini and they weren't released each weekday of the week.
The Jellybean Problem was the first post of the series, released on March 7, 2014 (Monday). The problem goes like this:
There are three beans, two of which are poisonous and 1 safe, and someone else knows which one is safe and poisonous. You select one bean. The host then takes away a poisonous bean, and the host knows that the bean taken away was poisonous. You are given the option to switch. The ingenuity is that it is always better to switch. Because while taking a poisonous bean away gave no new information about the bean you selected, it gave you new information about the remaining bean. There is a two thirds chance that the bean you selected was poisonous, and only a one third chance that it was safe. Therefore, it is always safer to switch because the one you chose is more likely to be poisonous than not. 
The post also notes how this applies no matter the number of poisonous beans, and that this problem has been repeated before.
The second post was Everything You Should Know About Sound, released on March 9, 2014 (Wednesday), explaining how it works, how it travels, loudness and the different levels of it, and shows just how loud the Krakatora eruption really was.
The third post was How I Handle Long Email Delays, showing how Tim panics when his friend doesn't respond to his email, becoming worried he socially embarrassed and ruined himself. It was released on March 11, 2014 (Friday).
The fourth post was Why I Should Never Drink a Full Cup Of Starbucks Coffee, a comic from Tim's original blog, Underneath the Turban, showing how after drinking Starbucks coffee Tim gets hyperactive and excited, and after three hours Tim can barely move. It was released on March 11, 2014 (Friday), after How I Handle Long Email Delays.
The fifth and final post is Why is My Laptop On, examining where energy for Tim's laptop comes from, tracing the energy back to fossil fuels, the core of a star, and finally to dimples in spacetime. It was released on March 12, 2014 (Saturday). An add on post released the same day called Energy for Dummies was released, explaining the different types of energy such as fossil fuels, nuclear energy, and renewables.
== Full posts ==
Jellybean Problem: https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/the-jellybean-problem.html
Everything You Should Know About Sound: https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/sound.html
How I Handle Long Email Delays: https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/long-email-delay.html
Why I Should Never Drink A Full Cup Of Starbucks Coffee: https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/starbucks.html
Why is My Laptop On: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/03/why-is-my-laptop-on.html
Energy for Dummies: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/03/energy-dummies.html
== Trivia ==
* Despite being called Mini Week, only two of the posts are Mini posts, with the rest being Archive posts.
Category:Archive posts
Category:Mini posts