Question 736: My drink of Choice

Simple recipe for a drink
Should really try it out once, feel a sort of kinship with it.
It combines Mathematics with a very famous drink, thus giving the name ___X-Y____

All the blanks save for the 4th one refer to the same concept, the 4th being blank as it would give it away.

Question 629: Delicious and round, yet squared

A guest question by one of our regulars, Pi.R.Square.Enjoy

Touted as the most complex crop circle ever found in Britain, the pattern appeared earlier this month near Barbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort above the village of Wroughton in Wiltshire. 

Initially, crop circle enthusiasts were stumped as to its meaning and even a number of experts said it was 'mind-boggling'.

Dismissed in mid 2008 as being unsolveable, retired astrophysicist Mike Reed put 2 and 2 together to finally arrive upon the answer.

Upon having solved it, he produced a fractal of the form as described


"The little dot near the centre is the decimal point. The code is based on ten angular segments, with the radial jumps being the indicator of each segment. Starting at the centre and counting the number of one-tenth segments in each section contained by the change in radius clearly shows the values of the first 10 of __X___"

ID what the crop circle shows.

TO quote Calvin, " The surest sign that life exists in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us yet"

Question 612: Oil the Bricycle

A sketch that seems to be the plan or design of something.
I need you to identify who drew this up, and the cause for it(or in context) to appear in our everyday lives> Not everybody's everyday life,
but I allude to a jobless few.

Anyway, here're the pics.

Question 514: I Say Illusion, You Say “Four” Sure

Many Wishes,


My name is Pranav, and I'm happy to help you spend your idle time on the computer NOT macking on manga and memes.
Actually, I kid - let's go right ahead. First post right up.

___X___ was the amongst the most famous of the Pre-Socratic scholars, having forwarded an entire school of thought that was touched upon in Plato’s most complex dialogue. __X__ was only trying to forward the traditional interpretation that the general perception of reality in the physical world (being discussed in doxa) is incorrect, and that the reality of the practical world is 'One Being' (being discussed in aletheia): an unchanging and indestructible whole.

But in the process, he came up with two of the most famous Greek logical constructs known today. 

The first is that of a method of proof called reductio ad absurdum - which means reducing or extending the logical atomic parts of an argument to the point of absurdity.  

The other construct (or a body of logical work - ___X’s  Y___) - it comprised of a body of 40 propositions put forward by __X__ to prove his belief in the illusion of the “Many” by questioning several conventional axioms. Only a few of these have survived, being discussed in great length by Aristotle as well. Lewis Carroll alludes to one of these when he mentions how the tortoise has a deductive argument with the loser (___Z___) at the end of the race, leading the loser into an infinite regression. By some chance, __X__ didn’t really like infinity, and Carroll was simply playing with words when he described __Z’s__ palpable displeasure with the tortoise’s version as well.

Z vs Tortoise - Time heels wounded pride

Name X 

Tell me what X’s Y is (a collective term of reference) 

Who/what is Z?

How does the title figure in this?

Guess 2 for 5 points, 3 for 8, 4 for 10 - it’d be a crime not to get all four if you get two!

Question 444: When we last saw nelly on the telly (WENT UNCRACKED) [ MY OWN MOTHER CRACKED THIS ONE, im serious. By just seeing 444 and the crane]

Connect the 2 pictures, along with the question (choose which part), to arrive at 2 answers:

1) What has been blanked out in picture 2?
2) How is all this connected? ( a person name's will suffice)






CLUE:

Question : Don't be harsh

A Harshad number, or Niven number in a given number base, is an integer that is divisible by the sum of its digits when written in that base. Harshad numbers were defined by D. R. Kaprekar, a mathematician from India. The word "Harshad" comes from the Sanskrit harṣa, meaning "great joy". The Niven numbers take their name from Ivan M. Niven from a paper delivered at a conference on number theory in 1997. All integers between zero and n are Harshad numbers in base n.

Using this as your baseline, what is significant about this question.