Show me the numbers
November 17, 2012 2 Comments
I attended a lecture this week on research between stress and heart attacks, where this chart (from a New England Journal of Medicine paper) was displayed, showing incidences of heart attacks in the German population over the period of the 2006 Football World Cup, along with the data for previous years for comparison:
November 6, 2012 1 Comment
I was a guest at the Brazilian embassy in London earlier this year, and had a DNA test done to assess the ancestry of my genes.
The results are now in:
I’m quite European it turns out. Who knew?!
November 5, 2012 Leave a comment
I’d never noticed it before:
Apparently it’s legendary among designers.
November 4, 2012 Leave a comment
No really, show me the numbers. That was too fast…here’s a clip from a competition where people are adding together 15 3-digit numbers:
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The world record is 1.70 seconds. Mental images of abacuses are the key.
Marc Gawley 