NASA and the government lottery officials need to get on the same page on probability
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NASA and the government lottery officials need to get on the same page on probability
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This was a week that had us scratching our heads. Fortunately, we found a good dandruff shampoo and that’s not a problem anymore. But also, there was odd happenings that proved the world often doesn’t make a lot of sense. At the same time, it can also be wildly entertaining. Cricket: Popular Sport or...
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It’s been quite a week on the American financial front. Debt ceilings and national credit ratings. Things that most people only had a vague notion that even existed. Like the grilled chicken salad at McDonalds. But, on closer examination, this week has brought new levels of absurdity, even by Capitol standards. Where’s the cape?...
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For years I wondered if superheros were real or just in the comic books. This week, we found out the answer: Wonder Woman and Cat Woman do in fact exist. And made appearances this week, leaving millions around the world cheering. From the U.S. World Cup Soccer Team, Abby Wambach (aka Wonder Woman) used...
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Every June, the fine people at the greeting card companies encourage us to celebrate Father’s Day. According to the dictionary, a father is “a man who has begotten a child”. Hmm – I’m not sure if that is a noble accomplishment worth dedicating and entire day of the year. Frankly, a chimpanzee can meet...
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It’s become part of the lexicon of modern culture: Jumping the Shark. Everything has a lifecycle and jumping the shark is roughly the point when a show reaches it’s maximum entertainment value. And every single moment beyond the shark is just another memory of the good old days. You see, the phrase started when...
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As a young kid, I closely examined a touch tone phone and noticed a symbol which I immediately recognized as odd. It was a tic tac toe grid or sometimes called a pound sign. I asked my dad about this intriguing but apparently useless key, and he assured me that someday, the powers that...
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It’s Memorial Day ten years after the two numbers that are instantly recognizable by the world – nine eleven. Bin Laden is dead and stadiums are chanting “U – S – A!”. We won, and that’s that. The whole country is chest bumping one another in victory. And for years, I’ve had holes in...
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There’s a new book called Love Wins by the Michigan mega-church pastor, Rob Bell, that everyone is talking about. In it, Bell asks question after question increasingly showing that the whole concept of...
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This week, adding onto an incredibly improbable streak, Jennifer Lopez was named the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by People Magazine. Mathematicians worldwide were baffled by the astronomic probability of well known American stars who have made the list consecutively. Scientists at Stanford and MIT noted, ”We’ve gone over the statistics every which...
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