Let’s assume you had a small car accident. It was not your fault but nevertheless, your car has a minor dent that needs to be repaired. You go to the repair shop and ask for an estimate. After carefully checking the situation and doing certain tests to gauge the severity of the damage,...

At age 9, Demi-Lee Brennan, of Kiama, Australia got seriously sick. So sick, that her liver got severely damaged and she needed a liver transplant to survive.  Doctors treating her are not yet certain what caused her liver to fail during this illness but believe it to be the handiwork of an...

A young woodcutter asked for a job with the foreman of a logging crew and got it. The salary and work conditions were very good. So, woodcutter was determined to do his best. Boss gave him an axe and asked to start Monday. On Monday, the woodcutter fell 18 trees. Boss was very happy and appreciated woodcutter’s...

Peter Vidmar and Tim Daggett, members of American gymnastics team at 1984 olympics shared a dream: A dream to win gymnastics gold medal for their team. But there were issues to be addressed. For starters, in recently concluded world artistic gymnastics championships, American team’s performance...

During late 1970s professor Robert Jahn of Princeton University was working with an interesting machine. It was called Random Event Generator (REG) as it generated either a 0 or 1, randomly, 200 times every second. REG was essentially an electronic coin flipper. Statistics and common sense suggest that...