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Besides baseball and hospitals, perhaps the most obvious application of statistics is to gambling. In the 1960s, Morris and Cover frequently capitalized on their knowledge of statistics at the blackjack table. “We’d get kicked out of casinos for counting cards,” Morris recalls. “[Cover] is a great gambler. Back then, they’d deal one deck down to the last card, so sometimes you knew exactly what...
These plans are laudable, but they will never bring NASA back to the special place it held in the American consciousness during the moon race in the 1960s. Although risky and expensive, sending astronauts to the moon and beyond stokes some primal part of human curiosity. Thus, we hope that NASA will send astronauts to Mars within our lifetime, so we may vicariously experience the incomparable thrill of discovery. Evidence has shown that the red planet has water and may have once had oceans. If more than a handful of astronauts are sent, there is the possibility of having...
...Sperling says from his office in Phoenix, Ariz. "The government's drug-reform policy is driven by a Fundamentalist Christian sense of morality that sees any of these illegal substances used as evil." Sperling says he smoked pot to combat pain associated with the cancer he fought in the 1960s...
...1960s, at the apex of his career, Greenstein was a member of an advisory body that helped form the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
...served as a member of a visiting committee that came to lecture at Harvard during the 1960s and 1970s...