This web page is an amazing tutorial for application of Bayes’ theorem. One of the problem resolved by this theorem is:
1% of women at age forty who participate in routine screening have breast cancer. 80% of women with breast cancer will get positive mammographies. 9.6% of women without breast cancer will also get […]

In the small film below, Jerry Andress Shows a few amazing optical illusions. We can call this perception failure:
"The wonderful brain interprets something different as it actually is but it doesn’t mean that it made a mistake. It took the information that it had and did it’s best job"

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I recently read a book that reviews the basic notions of probability. And this book also describes the "Gambling of the Chevalier De Mere": Solving this problem, Blaise Pascal produced the basic laws of probability.
Historically recorded is the fait of a swinging Flemish renaissance gentleman, the Chevalier de Mere. Around 1650, he suffered severe […]

I just reproduced an extract below, but the full earth picture is available at Incredimazing. This picture shows:

City lights
Natural gas flares
Wildfires
Fishing fleet lights

This picture is based on:

Nasa’s Visible Earth map, 2001: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
Lights data source: Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, 1994-1995: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/maps.html

Earth at Night | Incredimazing via kwout

Technorati Tags: Photo, Earth, Night, Nasa

This page presents a summary of west philosophers: From Plato to Jean-Paul Sartre. The page heading say it all:

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Hans Rosling is a genius of statistics. He knows how to bring out insights from boring statistics. The following video show one of his presentation at TED:

In a follow-up to his now-legendary TED2006 presentation, Hans Rosling demonstrates how developing countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He shows us the next generation of his Trendalyzer […]

Nowadays we check weather forecast on TV, on the Internet or even using a WII. But if we were alone in an island, the tips described in this wikihow article would be useful.
Found via haha.

In the TED presentation below, Dr Dean Ornish provides some insight about the rise of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases accros the globe.

GJCaulkins created a very funny Math drawing:

Ririan project offers 4 advices (called easy lifestyles) to avoid to get a cold. It’s really relevant during winter. I reproduced the 4 easy lifestyle below:
1: Start your day with the antiviral breakfast: They suggest to take a big breakfast: 1200 calories with oatmael, bananas, eggs, jam, orange juice,etc.
2: Get your head down and get […]