What good is praying for money if you don’t enable God to give it to you?

Issamar Ginzberg, a Hasidic rabbi, on buying a Mega Millions lottery ticket, via MSNBC

According to a statistical analysis of proteins noted in Science News (June 5, 2010)

A model with a single common ancestor but allowing for some gene swapping among species... is 10**3489 times more probable than the best multi-ancestor model...

In other words the study concluded it was 10 followed by 3489 zeroes times more likely that all ( Read more... )

Betting on horse racing... is a great way to spend an afternoon and it can be very lucrative with minimal research. If you read the weekly (and something daily) racing reports in this paper and other local papers and trust the experts, you're likely to at least break even ( Read more... )

"It is now clear to us that there are bits and pieces of information that were in the possession of the U.S. government in advance . . . that, had they been assessed and correlated, could have led to a much broader picture and allowed us to disrupt the attack... Or certainly to know much more about the alleged attacker in such a way as to ensure ( Read more... )

From what I understand, the system didn't fail. The system was never designed to catch someone carrying what this guy was carrying, despite Napoliatano's claims ( Read more... )

The Probability of a White Christmas

• Honolulu, Austin, TX 0%
• Los Angeles 1%
• San Francisco 1%
• Little Rock 3%
• Seattle, New York City 10%

I was trying to explain the concept of a Poisson distribution ( Read more... )