In general, a scientific law is the description of an observed phenomenon. It doesn't explain why the phenomenon exists or what causes it. The explanation for a phenomenon is called a scientific ...

Around noon one day last June, an elderly woman was mugged in an alley in San Pedro, Calif. Shortly afterward, a witness saw a blonde girl, her pony tail flying, run out of the alley, get into a ...

A classification scheme for probability laws by tail behavior is proposed. It circumvents the smoothness conditions usually imposed on the probability laws by current classification schemes and yields ...

A HOLIDAYING family was sailing off the Australian coast last week when a humpback whale jumped clear out of the water and landed on their yacht. A HOLIDAYING family was sailing off the Australian ...

Life is uncertain. None of us know what is going to happen. We know little of what has happened in the past or is happening now outside our immediate experience. Uncertainty has been called the ...

The law of probability makes two points: first, anything man can think of can happen even if it seems impossible. Secondly, the law of probability treats with the likelihood of an event happening and ...

To put it plainly, Darwin’s theory of the origin of life and its evolution is bunk. Scientific evidence points to intelligent design, a fact inconsistent with Darwinism and perfectly consistent with ...

What the Mets are banking on, as much as anything, is this: Math. Specifically: Good math. Specifically: The laws of probability reversing course and carrying them to a full season of peace and ...

Monday, I wrote a little thing about Oakland's 20-game winning streak last season. A Topps card described the streak as "truly one in a million," but I thought their math was a bit simplistic and I ...