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“An Alarming Paradox”: Solution

Posted in Puzzles by Greg Ross on November 7th, 2007

Solution to An Alarming Paradox:

The “three travellers” here are Francis Drake, Thomas Cavendish, and William Dampier, each of whom circled the globe. On such a journey, your head does indeed travel farther than your feet — about 37 feet farther, if you’re 6 feet tall and the globe is a perfect sphere.