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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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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Pfizer Ripples of Hope Awards granted to four outstanding researchers VANCOUVER, Jan. 19, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – Pfizer Canada is pleased to announce four recipients of the annual Pfizer Ripples of Hope Awards. Bibiana Wong and Liza Sutton are both post-doctoral fellows at the University of British Columbia and are respectively the recipients of the [...]
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LAS VEGAS, Nov. 30, 2011 /CNW Telbec/ – After an international scientific team studying neutrino particles in Italy found the CERN results about neutrinos traveling faster the speed of light to be incorrect, Rael, spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement, pronounced their conclusion to be greatly biased in favor of prevailing theory. “I wouldn’t be surprised if any [...]
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Note: If you are interested in a short description of the pictures, please go to the slideshow. African penguins are the newest exhibit at Toronto Zoo. I watched them being fed, while they were swimming at the surface and also through the under-water viewing windows. While penguins are usually associated with the ice of Antarctica, [...]
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Note: If you are interested in a short description of the pictures, please go to the slideshow. Toronto Zoo is not only a zoo, it is also one of Ontario’s main sources of knowledge for nature conservancy activities. Last Saturday, Toronto Zoo hosted its fifth yearly event for people participating in the Adopt-A-Pond programme. Toronto [...]
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NEW YORK, Oct. 24, 2011 /CNW/ – In September 2011 a neutrino beam from a CERN lab in Geneva, Switzerland to the 454 miles remote INFN Gran Sasso lab in Italy seemed to travel 0.0025 percent faster through the Earth than the speed of light in a vacuum. Some hitherto undisputed pillars of classical physics will totter if this experiment turns out to be [...]
Continue reading …Uniting Physics: Science of Black Hole Thermodynamics to be Discussed at Perimeter Institute Public Lecture on November 2
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WATERLOO, ON, Oct. 12, 2011 /CNW/ – Black holes are hot! This discovery made by Stephen Hawking ties together gravity, spacetime, quantum matter, and thermal systems into the beautiful and exciting science of “black hole thermodynamics”. Its beauty lies in the powerful way it speaks of the unity of physics. On Wednesday, November 2, as [...]
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MARKHAM, ON, Sept. 21, 2011 /CNW/ – The construction of ViaSat-1, North America’s first 4G broadband satellite, is complete. A game-changer in terms of ubiquitous broadband access in Canada, ViaSat-1 will allow for previously unavailable speed and bandwidth economics, and will provide Canadians in its footprint, which includes many remote areas, the opportunity to get [...]
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