Nov 04

A recent veto by CA governor Arnold Schwarzenegger contained an obscenity spelled out by the first letter in each line of the message. Was this a pure coincidence or was the message specifically written this way? The Wall Street Journal takes a look.

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Sep 30

I’ve come across a two baby/birth related articles recently and thought I would share them both together. Both present information related to when a baby is born, specifically the time of year.

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Sep 18

If you’ve ever played a game of Scrabble and thought that there was something not quite right about the tiles and their associated points value, an economist from Northwestern University agrees with you. Check out this Wall Street Journal article.

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May 31

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that a woman in Atlantic City has broken a record playing craps by rolling the dice 154 consecutive times in one single turn. What are the odds of something like this happening? It turns out that it’s about 1 in 5.3 billion. Check out the full story of the analysis behind the record.

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