Time travel
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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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We were sitting one evening at bedtime with our five-year-old son Peter, reading the Dorling Kindersley encyclopedia of prehistory, looking at Stone Age technology. The following morning, I was out in the shed when he came in and asked, Daddy, is this a flintcore? I looked, and he had a perfect example of a flintcore in his hand. Exactly like the one we'd been looking at in the book, in fact. (A flintcore is a piece of flint from which a skilled napper has removed a number of sharp flakes for use as knife blades and arrowheads.) We lived at the time in the alluvial Severn Vale, many miles from the nearest chalkdown. He had found the flintcore in a grow-bag in the garden - where someone had travelled 100,000 years in the night to show him.
Date submitted:Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:59:40 +0000Coincidence ID:6071
