The World Science Festival's panel on Probability and Risk started out in an unusual manner: MIT's Josh Tennenbaum strode onto a stage and flipped a coin five times, claiming he was psychically ...

The likelihood that a song by a specific band will be played is proportional to the number of songs of the particular band divided by all songs. Since the selection is arbitrary and songs may be ...

The solution to this month’s puzzle examines the use of abstract probabilities as an antidote to real-world ignorance. Read Later The second Insights puzzle, “The Slippery Eel of Probability,” was ...

A man went on an airplane ride. Unfortunately, he fell out. Fortunately, he had a parachute on. Unfortunately, the parachute did not open. Fortunately, there was a haystack below him, directly in the ...

1 The Arts and Humanities (AH) and Social Sciences (SS) perspectives are subsets of the Breadth of Knowledge (BOK) requirements in the Core Curriculum. No more than two BOK courses can be taken with ...