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  The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is the largest arts festival in the world. The 2019 version has just finished, but Wikipedia lists some of the...

  You're at a party and meet someone. After chatting for a bit, you work out that the girl you're talking to has 2 kids and one of them is a...

  Statistics: helping you solve life's more difficult problems... You might have read recently - since it was in every news outlet here, here,...

In a recent post I explained that in a large database of containing the words from many English language texts of various types, the word 'football'...

  Many of you will know that my involvement with Smartodds stems from co-authorship of an academic paper with Mark Dixon. In this paper we...

So, how did your team get on in the first round of Premier League fixtures for the 2019-20 season? My team, Sheffield United, were back in the top...

    Some time ago I wrote about Mendel's law of genetic inheritance, and how statistical analysis of Mendel's data suggested his results...

  A while ago I posted about gambling at roulette, and explained that whatever strategy you adopt - excluding the possibility of using...

  I recently came across a large database of the use of English-American words. It aims to provide a representative sample of the usage...

= Einstein is reported to have said: No one can win at roulette unless he steals money from the table while the croupier isn't looking In contrast,...

  Ever heard of the Fermi paradox? This phenomenon is named after the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, and concerns the fact that though we've...

  In an earlier post I suggested we play a game. You'd pick a sequence of three outcomes of a coin toss, like THT. Then I'd pick a different...