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Category Archives: Mathematics
Maybe Boeing is Trying To Do Their Share in Evening Out Passenger Death Rates
Perhaps you have heard that the death rate per 100 million passenger miles varies greatly by method of transportation. This is true as shown by this linked graph. Basically the lowest that passenger cars dips to is 0.5 deaths per … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Mathematics
Tagged Airbus, Boeing, Boeing Starliner, buses, congrats airlines, death rate by transportation method, death rate per 100 million passenger miles, help death rates by being almost perfect, ISS, ISS has about 25 billion miles with zero fatalities, no distracted driving, no drunk driving, no speeding, passenger cars, passenger rail, scheduled airline flight, shoddy workmanship in some Boeing planes
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June 2024 Grab Bag o’ Humour
The Professional Women’s Hockey League (the PWHL) has as it’s championship trophy, the Walter Cup. I have to question the name of said cup. It’s not as if I like telling women what to do (Indeed I don’t like doing … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Language, Mathematics, Sports
Tagged Austin, comb. fork, Dallas, feminine name, Fort Worth, Houston, masculine name, people's names, Professional Womens Hockey League, PWHL, San Antonio, Texans imaginative?, Texas, the Walter Cup, trident, Walters is a surname, Y in the road
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Late March, 2023, Grab Bag o’ Humour
People may question why McDonald’s brought out their new chicken Big Mac. I’m just wondering why it took them so long. Some might say the taste is a little bland after their palates have been accustomed to the normal Big … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Humour, Mathematics, Stage and Screen
Tagged 4th season, 5th season, almost pointless 5th season, Babylon 5, Big Mac, binge watching, bland, cheap, chicken, four petals, ground beef, McDonald's, poppy, quarter pounder, she loves me, she loves me not, Succession, syndication, three petals, trillium
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High One
‘High one” sounds like a good name to be at the top of a hierarchy. Maybe it is a term you could use to address a royal, or maybe their representative such as a judge. Or maybe “high one” would … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Mathematics, Politics
Tagged 1 pm, 2023, Daylight Savings Time, gunfighters, high noon, high one, highest position of sun in sky, judge, midnight, New York State, Ontario, Quebec, royal, spiritual leader, the witching hour, time, top of hierarchy, US, village square, witches
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The Real Competition for The Weather Network
I’ve taken a lot of math courses over the years, and still I wonder why The Weather Network will not give a 50% chance of precipitation. All the other 10s are there. 0%, 10 %, 20%, 30%, 40%, 60%, 70%, … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Mathematics, Science
Tagged Batman, coin eith one side X, don't Two-face yourself, fifty percent, I'm mildly against the royal family, math, people who are extremely against the royal family, probability of precipitation, site, station, the Queen, The Weather Network, their real competitor is a coin flip
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It’s Almost as if the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation Wants Us to Lose
For the purposes of this article, I am going to assume when picking numbers for a lottery ticket, those possible values are between 1 and 49 because that’s how it was for Lotto 649. In its latest ads, OLG has … Continue reading
Posted in Mathematics, Sports, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged $100 000 prize, 8 milestone birthdays from 1 to 49, about 25 players on hockey or football or baseball or soccer team, baseball, basketball, big win, blackjack dealer, casino, Encore, football, hockey, jersey numbers, Lotto 649, milestone birthdays, most live babies in one batch for a human is 8, Mr. Encore, Octomom, OLG, plinko, soccer, the big wheel, The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, the Price is Right, triplets
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Can Cockroaches Survive Dr. Phil?
In the book, “The Cockroach Papers: A Compendium of History and Lore” it is believed that the first mention of cockroaches being able to survive the Nagasaki and Hiroshima nuclear blasts occurred. This eventually led to the idea that if … Continue reading
Posted in Mathematics, Science, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged 64% of Britons who are overweight or obese get serious covid-19 cases, 64% of people in UK are overweight or obese, bears, cockroaches, cockroaches come from the tropics, covid-19, Dr. Phil, foxes, Hiroshima, humans, Nagasaki, nuclear strike, nuclear war, other insects, popular culture, spiders, wolves
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The Butterfly Effect
The butterfly effect is a chaos theory example of how small differences in initial conditions can cause a hugely different outcome much later in some systems. One influential paper is called: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Humour, Mathematics, Science
Tagged butterflies, Carrington Event, coronal mass ejection, Earth, exterminate butterflies and moths to stop all tornadoes, flap of wings, great red spot, Jupiter, Mike Brotherton, Mothra, Mothra has a wingspan of 250 meters, moths, Star Dragon, stars have weather, the butterfly effect, tornadoes, widespread blackouts
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