relativity
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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.
While driving from Raleigh to Southport, I thought I was making pretty good time as the traffic was light and it's interstate most of the way. But by the time I was on the last stretch, NC 133,the River Road along the Cape Fear, thinking I should be only ten minutes away, I realized it was actually 20 min. or more to my destination. I then mused about the recent discovery of wave in the space/time continuum and how I had "slipped" through some anomaly in time. Just after this thought there appeared a billboard off to the right on the next stretch of highway. The billboard had a large black&white image of Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out. I laughed bemusedly.
Date submitted:Sat, 27 Feb 2016 14:45:24 +0000Coincidence ID:8465
