Novak Djokovic lost at Cincinnati within days of my prediction that he was bound to lose again before the season was out. Many scoffed. Just as they had done last year when I had predicted that Roger ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discover how the Law of Large Numbers helps insurance companies manage risk and determine premiums, and why it sometimes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Yes or no: was there once life on Mars?" I can't say. "What about intelligent life?"' That seems most unlikely, but again, I can't really say. The simple yes-or-no framework has no place for shadings ...

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 ...