Tumbleweed
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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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My brother and I were talking while our radio was tuned to a local rock station, playing the latest songs.
Laughing, I told my brother about my boyfriend's bushy dead plants which rolled around his balcony in the winter wind off Lake Michigan. I remarked that he was the only person in Chicago with tumbleweed.
At the moment I said "tumbleweed" the song "Tumbling Tumbleweed" began to play on the radio. We looked at the radio in amazement! Not a song you'd hear on a rock station.
Looking back, I wish I had called the station to ask why they played that song. I believe it was an old Gene Autry version.
In any case, it was a very uncanny coincidence.
Date submitted:Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:55:41 +0000Coincidence ID:6083
