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Remember Herceptin? It was definitely going to save the lives of the women who won their court cases to receive it. Well, nearly. It cut the risk of recurrence of the cancer by half. And at the same time, you'd need to treat 18 women in order to save one life. How? Perfectly simple. Most...

Not sure if this was posted here yet - a story in the Boston Globe today. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2006/05/17/strength_in_numbers/ Snip: "JOHNSTON, R.I. -- Joanne O'Neill called her son Nick on his cellphone. Nick's band, Shryne, was to open for the heavy metal group...

Broadway Bigs Bring Down Curtain On High School's 'Chicago' Performance Before you jump on the lawyers though, consider that the principal should have thought about getting permission first. Ignorance is no defense!

What the heck is the algorythm at work behind this one?

I caught the end of an interview on Radio 4 at the weekend where Gary Rimmer was talking about his book 'Number Freaking'. I'm sure I heard him say that if you took all the living things on the planet (flora and fauna), ants would account for 15% of it the total mass. I realise that the...

I'm sure everyone has seen the TV commercial for the online credit-check service, with the "spokesmodel" sitting there in front of a scale that goes from 450 to 850. Why such weird numbers? Why wouldn't your "credit score" simply be a 1-100 scale or somesuch?

In Islamic heaven you get whatever your heart desires. Virgins, raisins, camels, whatever. Islam Q&A: http://tinyurl.com/9pjof

Well, I'm sure that this will come as a massive blow to all Iron Maiden fans but at least we can feel a bit more comfortable about bar codes. Apparently the number of The Beast is actually a slightly disappointing 616

Let me introduce you all to my lucky number - One Hundred and Forty Seven - 147. Soon you will see this number everywhere. 147

Can someone explain to a math deficient person (me) what the real deal with Fibonaccis number is? I understand that is is a useful ratio and that it allows certain geometric functions, but does it really show up in nature as often as is stated? i.e. body parts, plants, planets, solar system...

You're really in for it now. Michael Moore is prepping his next film for production: Farenheit 9/11 and a half Hooboy! You've really had it now! At last! Someone who truly understands America's love affair with Hollywood. Will anyone dare challenge this juggernaut of truth? Sure, some of...

So I'm just sitting here watching a progress bar and I get a call (yes, after midnight, when most people should be in bed) and it's a wrong number. He asks for {some guy}, I say, "I'm sorry, you have the wrong number." Out of the blue he asks, "Have you been saved by Jesus?", and I say "No."...

Alternate title: " If at first you don't succeed .. " What is wrong with this picture? Or is it just me? Child poet Mattie Stepanek dies This story is a bit old, but it came to my attention because Oprah had a feature on it Monday.

Bush mentioned this stuff from the previous administration in his RNC speech, and bitched about 'nothing being done': http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/ http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/yemen010108.html The first WTC bombing, the USS Cole, the embassies, etc...

Lower your Erdös number Bill Tozier is auctioning off co-authorship of a paper, guaranteeing to decrease your Erdös number: E-bay auction Serious offer. Currently $31. (Picked up from Crooked Timber)

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/22/1079939580578.html Fact or fiction? You decide. After all the rumours, they haven't come up with the goods.

This is a follow up to the "Ian's Question for Dummies" thread. Yahweh and I both created our own programs to generate random numbers and both noticed that repeative numbers such as 1111 seem to occurs less often than non-repeative numbers (e.g. 5261). I believe this is probably an artifact of...

In the thread discussing the 1 = 0.999... topic, many posters seem to think that the symbols 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,- and the decimal point actually are numbers. This seems wrong to me. The base-10 decimal notation, using arabic numerals, is just a clumsy way of representing numbers; roman...

What is your Erdös number? http://www.acs.oakland.edu/~grossman/erdoshp.html I'll start. As far as I can figure, mine is 4: me --> Andy van Dam --> John F. Hughes --> Jeffrey Outlaw Shallit --> Paul Erdös ~~ Paul

I'm about to embark on the search for an answer. What is the currently preferred jargon of the scientific community, Avogadro's Number or Avogadro's Constant? Or something else? Anyone care to make a prediction what I will find? Or what I should find?

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=294794&contrassID=1&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y ..full article