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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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2012. While I was clearing out my loft (I live in North London), I noticed a piece of newspaper poking from under the insulation. It was attached to the rest of a whole newspaper, a Croydon and Surrey local from 1942. Many of the pages included sponsored ads urging donations for tanks, which would bear the borough's name. There were also pieces on rabbit, bee, veg and hen keeping clubs, and other activities giving a strong flavour of life and times of the 40's. I gave it to my mum for nostalgia and she rang me a few days later; rather excited. She had read every inch that I had passed by, including the extensive personal columns where she had found the announcement of her late sister's wedding. I am certain that I had never seen it before, and it had been my mum and her sister who had cleared my late aunt's flat when she died, and they hadn't seen it before either.
Date submitted:Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:05:41 +0000Coincidence ID:6618
