Chance News (May-June 2005)

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. ~ Robert Wilensky

CONTENTS

• Forsooths (May-June 2005)

• Case leads to fight on Jewish representation on juries

• Vermont pays heavy war burden

• Seven statistical cliches used by baseball anounncers

• Numbed by the numbers, when they just don't add up

• Dan Rockmore's book: Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis

• The powerball lottery suspects fraud, but it's the Fortune Cookies

• Red enhances human performance in contests

• Mix math and medicine and create confusion

• Marilyn answers a lottery question