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"Statistics is hard. But that's not just an issue of individual understanding; it's also becoming one of the nation's biggest political problems. We live in a world where the thorniest policy issues increasingly boil down to arguments over what the data mean. If you don't understand statistics, you don't know what's going on -- and you can't tell when you're being lied to. Statistics should now be a core part of general education. You shouldn't finish high school without understanding it reasonably well -- as well, say, as you can compose an essay."
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"The Science Tarot is a creative science communication project that combines science, art, and mythology into a tarot deck to engage and awaken people's curiosity about science and the natural world."
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"Does this function have any use in physics? Not really as such, though it's interesting in that if you plant a bunch of identical telephone poles in a square grid, this function happens to represent what you see if you're looking at it from ground level at one of the corners."
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"There is a mismatch between what science knows and what business does."
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