Chance News (April-May 2005)

CONTENTS

• Quotations

• Forsooths

• Case leads to fight on Jewish representation on juries

• Vermont pays heavy war burden

• Seven statistical cliches used by baseball anouncers

• 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 its the Fortune Cookies

• Red enhances human performance in contests

• Mix math and medicine and create confusion

• Marilyn answers a lottery question