You can take that to the bank: The bank shot, in this case. Provided you're a 70 percent free throw who launches the ball from seven feet above the ground with 3Hz of back spin. That's the starting point for a million simulated basketball shots that evaluated the best method for putting the ball through the hoop. Unless you're hovering near the foul line, bank shots appear to be the method of choice. The simulations also provided some advice on where on the backboard to place the shot, suggesting that there's a vertical aim line precisely 3.326 inches behind the backboard that can help a shooter find a sweet spot.
It's not only parents they don't listen to: Those wacky Australians. They recruited a set of over 100 parents to scare the crap out of their children by setting off the smoke alarm while the kids slept. It's all for a good cause, though—they found out that if the alarm went off for only 30 seconds, nearly 80 percent of the kids kept on sleeping, with the risk higher in younger children. Even extending the alarm to five minutes, however, would only improve matters by about 10 percent. The moral if you've got kids? Make sure the alarm wakes you up, because they're not going to notice.
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