May 1, 2012
by stephen
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New research by George Patton of the University of Melbourne reveals the differences in youth mortality (ages 10-24) among developed nations. The USA has the highest rates of youth mortality, due to the highest rates of death by violence and … Continue reading
October 19, 2011
by stephen
Comments Off on Lemony Snicket Comments On Occupy Wall Street
Lemony Snicket, author of the popular children’s books “A Series of Unfortunate Events” and a movie of the same name, wrote a series of Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance: Money … Continue reading
October 15, 2011
by stephen
Comments Off on Cooking the Books
Benford’s Law states that numbers for many real-life data sources have a distribution of leading digits that follow the following equation: In other words, the first digit of an arbitrary number is the digit “1” around 30.1% of the time, … Continue reading
September 11, 2011
by stephen
Comments Off on Gen Y plays, but Gen X pays
Flurry Analytics have published an interesting report on the different demographics for App revenue and App usage, “Mobile Freemium Games: Gen Y Plays, but Gen X Pays“: Players aged 25-54 account for 77% of the revenue, but only 44% of … Continue reading
August 26, 2011
by stephen
Comments Off on How to move 211 tons of gold from England to Venezuela
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered his government to repatriate $11 billion in gold held in banks abroad to safeguard the country from the economic crisis and said he’ll nationalize the local gold industry. Venezuela has about 211 tons of its … Continue reading