Winning streaks in baseball
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How rare are winning streaks in baseball?
How rare are winning streaks in baseball?
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When was saw this interview featuring two JDM giants, Richard Thaler and Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman, we knew we had to run it.
A GLOBAL VIEW The Guardian newspaper in the UK made this rather amazing interactive infographic (click through to interact) on causes of death, conditioned on age and region, around the world. They also provide, below, a display of ranked causes of death, and how they’ve changed since 1990. How do people die? One thing that […]