The Specials
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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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On the way to work one day, I played a one track live mix CD in my car. It was made several years prior by a friend of mine who is an MC /DJ. I put it in the CD player as I was leaving my driveway and it played for about 5 minutes before I stopped and turned the car off at a local petrol station where i picked up a car-sharing colleague and bought a coffee. Got back in the car and hit the motorway. It was late winter and was snowing for the first time that season. I had had a bit of an awakening a few days earlier and was discussing synchronicity with my friend, as a song by the Specials came on in the mix, a song called Blank Expression. The opening line is "snow is falling all around, 7 o clock and the roads are dark". At this exact moment I glanced at the clock and it was indeed 7 o clock and was snowing heavily on this dark winter morning.
Date submitted:Mon, 16 Apr 2018 06:55:55 +0000Coincidence ID:9982
