How to Make Decisions
Issue 63

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Thirteen fears for Friday the Thirteenth
(Source- There’s a Word for it by Charles Harrington Elster)

1. taphephobia – the fear of being buried alive.
2. phalacrophobia – the fear of going bald (A.K.A. alopeciaphobia)
3. prophylacticofrangiphobia – the fear of a condom breaking during sex
4. staurophobia – the fear of crucifixes
5. anatidaephobia – the fear of ducks, geese, swans, mergansers
6. spectocloacaphobia – the fear of one’s eyeglasses falling into the sewer
7. medomalacophobia – the fear of losing an erection during intercourse
8. barophobia – the fear of gravity
9. bdellophobia – the fear of leeches
10. gametophobia – the fear of marriage
11. porphyrophobia – the fear of purple
12. bathysiderodromophobia – the fear of subways
13. albophobia – the fear of white people

This Week’s Puzzle (Difficulty: APP, are you smarter than a 5th grader?)
With which of the following words could one properly describe a square?

Rhombus, Rectangle, Tetrahedron, Quadrilateral, Regular Polygon

Last Week’s Puzzle (Difficulty: Small Change)

On the Earth’s equator, if you drop a nickel (mass 5 grams) from a height of one meter, will it fall more quickly through water at 50 degrees Fahrenheit or water at 20 degrees Fahrenheit?

Greg Wind sees through my superfluous information:

50 degrees, because it won’t travel through ice.

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