time lapse, long distances and amazing meetings
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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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At about 5.45am on 8 November 2010, returning from a holiday in Singapore, I arrived at Heathrow Airport. After clearing immigration, I still had to catch a flight home to Scotland, so made my way to domestic departures. As I came out of a cubicle in the ladies' loo there, the next person waiting to go in was Muriel, a classmate of mine at North Berwick High School 1953-58. She had just flown in from Chicago where she had lived for forty years.
I was catching the next flight to Edinburgh, Muriel a later one. At 2pm the same day, visiting my mum in the sittingroom of the care home she lived in, in North Berwick, I could also chat to Muriel's dad who was there for a fortnight's respite care.
Anne
Date submitted:Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:38:36 +0000Coincidence ID:6001
