When common sense is senseless: the Monty Hall Solution
In the previous article, I presented the Monty Hall Problem, a famous problem in elementary probability, based on “Let’s make a deal”, a television game show of years gone by. If you haven’t read that article, what follows is likely to make little sense. It would therefore probably be better to read that article before continuing [...]
Bart B. Van Bockstaele-Toronto: How often have you heard this: “It’s just common sense”? Probably far more often than you care to remember. Common sense is often seen as a sort of innate intuition that leads us to the correct conclusions only a moron would deny. However, as I will show in this and the [...]
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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SCARBOROUGH PILOT PROJECT Patrick Connors – Toronto: Scarborough-based artists and/or arts organizations are invited to submit proposals to the CPA Advisory Committee to convene an event or to support a program and/or project that addresses pluralism in the arts. For the purposes of this Call for Proposals, pluralism in the arts [...]
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Bart B. Van Bockstaele-Toronto: First, let’s be clear: I am not all that fond of Bill Maher [01]. Anybody who suggests that headaches are not caused by Aspirin deficiency [02] and that Aspirin should therefore not be taken when one has a headache, is a bit of a loon and a crank, and almost certainly [...]
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Sacrifice of Isaac (1635) Most Americans claim they are, but are they? There are numberless Christian sects in the US, and all over the world for that matter. They all differ in what they consider Christian and what not except for one major point: they almost all agree that they are right, and that all [...]
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David Suzuki in 2009 I just finished watching the documentary MS Wars: Hope, Science and the Internet, presented by the indomitable David Suzuki in the CBC’s “The Nature of Things” series. I loved this documentary. The issues involved are intense, painful and devastating for patients, and fascinating for science. All the issues were presented in [...]
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Week One of The Rhubarb Festival opens tonight and is jam packed with amazing new projects in theatre, dance, performance art, and everything in between – every night, Wed-Sun, starting at 8pm. Look for work by Sarah Stanley, Mikiki,Alex Napier, Yamantaka//Sonic Titan, Adam Lazarus, and some special presentations you won’t want to miss. Justin Vivian Bond Thursday-Friday, [...]
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KJ Mullins-Toronto: For the past year each problem that Toronto has faced has had a big target: Mayor Rob Ford. For some of those problems the blame may indeed lay at the man’s feet but if Toronto is to fail it can’t be put solely on Ford’s mantle. While Mayor Rob Ford may have his [...]
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Members Appointed to Boards of Directors Patrick Connors – Toronto: At the Annual General Meeting on January 30, 2012, the members of Toronto Arts Council (TAC) elected three new Directors to its Board. The new appointments are Janet Carding, Director and CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum,Colleen Smith, Director of Operations at the Corporation of [...]
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Symposium targets Toronto journalism students Patrick Connors – Toronto: 140 journalism students at Ryerson University will attend Mental Illness and Stigma in News Reporting symposium on February 2. The session, organized by the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s (MHCC) anti-stigma initiative, Opening Minds, will look at how media coverage of mental health issues can perpetuate [...]
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