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Math problem

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On January 27, 2013
Suppose a basketball team goes into a game making 37% of its field goal attempts. What are the odds that, during any 29-shot sequence, the team will go 0 for 29 in that sequence? I'm coming up with 659,638 to 1.

The long con

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On January 17, 2013

Thoughts on the nonsense of the moment. Update: Journamalism from Pete Thamel, author of the now-infamous Sports Illustrated cover story. Short version: Te'o gave Thamel an enormous amount of information.

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Bust out

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On January 14, 2013
Following up on yesterday's Boston Globe story regarding the situation at New England School of Law, here are some hard figures regarding exactly how this confidence scheme institution of higher learning is an almost completely taxpayer subsidized operation, on both the front end, in the...
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