Unexpected encounters
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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.
I was waiting for a train on a crowded platform of London Bridge Station when a carriage door opened and out stepped a fellow student from Wales whom I hadn't met for ages.
We were driving back to the ferry in France in 1997 and stopped in Arromanches, where a band on the beach was playing 'God save the Queen.' Puzzled, we wondered why. A man nearby told us it was D-Day. My wife looked at him. It turned out she had nursed him in hospital in Haverfordwest.
We were in France in 2008 and decided to visit the Château de Villandry. We parked the car. To our astonishment the car next to us belonged to the couple who live next door to us here in Wales.
Date submitted:Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:57:24 +0000Coincidence ID:6737
