Art Imitating Life Imitating Art?

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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.

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My parents named me Belle, an exceedingly uncommon name in the modern U.S. They were scientists and I grew up loving to read and feeling disconnected with most of my peers. When the Disney animated movie "Beauty and the Beast" came out in 1991, I was 8 years old and immediately identified strongly with the heroine (there was some physical resemblance, but the name and character match were uncanny). Decades later, having met and married a relatively wealthy man with blue eyes, long golden hair, somewhat animal-like mannerisms, and mild Asperger's syndrome (difficulty with human empathy), we sometimes joke about the similarities (though I swear my taste in men was in no way influenced by the movie). The final shock of crazy coincidence was when I recently found out that, while never mentioned in the original movie, in the stage musical and other derivative material the Beast/Prince's real name is Adam-- the same as my husband!
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Date submitted:Fri, 07 Nov 2014 18:06:05 +0000Coincidence ID:7890