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A [FiveThirtyEight]( email [Popular This Week] Sunday, April 11, 2021 [1. Why The Republican Party Isn’t Rebranding After 2020]( [GOP-NAHTOPSY_4x3]( [Read more]( [2. HBO’s QAnon Doc Falls Into Traps Around The Rabbit Hole]( [Trump Supporters Rally In Freedom Plaza In Washington, DC]( [Read more]( [3. Why Being ‘Anti-Media’ Is Now Part Of The GOP Identity]( [ANTI-MEDIA-4×3]( [Read more]( [4. Why Joe Manchin Is So Willing And Able To Block His Party’s Goals]( [HAALAND NOMINATION]( [Read more]( [5. Is Soccer Wrong About Long Shots?]( [Manchester City v Leicester City – Premier League – Etihad Stadium]( [Read more]( [6. Why We Are (And Should Be) Talking About Voting Rights Right Now]( [SlackChat_0407-4×3]( [Read more]( [7. Why Americans Can’t Resist A Celebrity Political Candidate]( [0409_POLLA-4×3]( [Read more]( [8. Baylor’s Slow-Motion Knockdown]( [Baylor v Gonzaga]( [Read more]( [9. All The Elections To Watch In 2021]( [2021-RACES-4X3]( [Read more]( [10. Americans Oppose Many Voting Restrictions — But Not Voter ID Laws]( [0402_POLLA-4×3]( [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Weekly Listen [Play]( [Why MLB Ditched Georgia]( Lastly, The Riddler By [Zach Wissner-Gross]( [riddler_4x3_default]( You have two 16-ounce cups — cup A and cup B. Both cups initially have 8 ounces of water in them. You take half of the water in cup A and pour it into cup B. Then, you take half of the water in cup B and pour it back into cup A. You do this again. And again. And again. And then many, many, many more times — always pouring half the contents of A into B, and then half of B back into A. When you finally pause for a breather, what fraction of the total water is in cup A? Extra credit: Now suppose both cups initially have somewhere between 0 and 8 ounces of water in them. You don’t know the precise amount in each cup, but you know that both cups are not empty. Again, you pour half the water from cup A into cup B, and then half from cup B back to A. You do this many, many times. When you again finally pause for a breather, what fraction of the total water is in cup A? [Solve it!]( [FiveThirtyEight] [View in browser]( [ABC News]( [Unsubscribe]( Our mailing address: FiveThirtyEight, 47 West 66th Street, New York, NY 10023.