Finding a Screen
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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.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
About 25 years ago, I lived in a flat in Southsea which had one very large room. One day my mother visited and I said I would love to divide the room with a panalled screen, preferably an old one which I could restore and decorate myself. On walking down the steps to the street a few moments later, we saw an antique screen lying abandonded in the gutter in front the building. I picked it up and took it into the flat. (Unfortuantely I have still not finished restoring it and my husband keeps threatening to throw it out!)
Well-intentioned restorer-to-be
Be Lucky
Date submitted:Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:37:48 +0000Coincidence ID:6195
