This and That

Statistics and the Lottery
A half-century ago, a statistics professor asked, “Who plays the lottery?” A few students raised their hands. “The lottery is a tax on the innumerate. If you buy a ticket and I don’t, statistically, we are equally likely to win.”
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About Loving Your Wife
Ecclesiastes 9:9
“Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your fleeting life which He has given to you under the sun; for this is your reward in life and in your toil in which you have labored under the sun.”
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Smokeless Cities
In 1954 my friend and mentor Edwin Diamond wrote an overly optimistic article based on Atoms for Peace. I can’t find the paper which headlined it Smokeless Cities and A-Powered Locomotives, but I found the article.
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Weapon of Choice
Remember Christopher Walken’s amazing Weapon of Choice  video? Go to YouTube and search for “Weapon of Choice.” Scroll down: Fred Astaire, Taylor Swift’s homage to Gene Kelly in Singin in the Rain., Daniel Craig, others.