I've compiled some statistics about AIDS in Iowa, on a quest to determine the actual risk presented by AIDS. There are good reasons to use protection and practice safe sex, but it appears that AIDS risk is so small in the United States that it poses...

The following question was asked of the Harvard Medical School students and staff:“If a test to detect a disease whose prevalence is one in a thousand has a false positive rate of 5% (95% accurate), what is the chance that a person with a positive...

Imagine we're flipping coins and I want to gamble. One of us will pick "heads-tails-heads" and the other gets "heads-tails-tails." Whichever three flip pattern hits first wins the bet. Which one do you want?a. Doesn't matterb. HTHc. HTTAlmost everyone,...

1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomThe first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.2 - http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title...

"When a 1999 cyclone in India left millions of people in danger of starvation, some activists denounced relief societies for distributing a nutritious grain meal because it contained genetically modified varieties of corn and soybeans (varieties...

"The closest event we can find to a thunderclap marking the entry of a soul into the world is the moment of conception. At that instant a new human genome is determined, and we have an entity destined to develop into a unique individual.Human embryo,...