On the stability of four feet tables

As is the case for a slow news day, weird stories will get massive circulation: From the AP and Reuters to every news site's "odds and ends" section, until it finally turns up on the local news in the last thirty seconds of the broadcast as an "And finally tonight..." story.

Some mathematician has found a way to reliably fix an unstable table. Once you read the article, though, try digesting the actual paper: On the stability of four feet tables.