so very, very wrong

which is why it's funny: http://whatistng.ytmnd.com/

can we please stop calling it "reality TV" now?

Fake space travel as reality show

Up next in reality TV: people are hoaxed into believing that they have been married, adopted a child, been inducted into the armed forces, been kidnapped...this is starting to remind me uncomfortably of this real news story, in which the Power (or, rather, the Vulnerability) of Gullibility (and its Use for Evil) are quite thoroughly demonstrated.

paper folding and supposed impossibility

Apparently it's been received wisdom for a while that you can't fold paper in half more than eight times, regardless of the paper's size or shape. It seems that, a while back, a high school student not only managed to do it anyway, but provide a mathematical proof of the amount of paper required (based on certain assumptions about how paper folding works, but they seem a reasonable approximation, anyway).

http://pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~ari/paper-folding.html

This second link actually includes a proof, which is reasonably easy to follow.