Around noon one day last June, an elderly woman was mugged in an alley in San Pedro, Calif. Shortly afterward, a witness saw a blonde girl, her pony tail flying, run out of the alley, get into a ...

A HOLIDAYING family was sailing off the Australian coast last week when a humpback whale jumped clear out of the water and landed on their yacht. A HOLIDAYING family was sailing off the Australian ...

"Yes or no: was there once life on Mars?" I can't say. "What about intelligent life?"' That seems most unlikely, but again, I can't really say. The simple yes-or-no framework has no place for shadings ...

The law of probability makes two points: first, anything man can think of can happen even if it seems impossible. Secondly, the law of probability treats with the likelihood of an event happening and ...

Monday, I wrote a little thing about Oakland's 20-game winning streak last season. A Topps card described the streak as "truly one in a million," but I thought their math was a bit simplistic and I ...

The role of statistics and probability in business success How embracing the laws of probability and chance can help relieve the pressures we put on ourselves Business comes. Business goes. There are ...