Making science
reader-friendly
Want a risky bet? How about that evens would come up on a
roulette wheel 26 straight times--the odds of it happening
are 1 in 142,857,000. An even worse bet would be that a
typewriter-equipped monkey, even one given an infinite
amount of time and paper, would spew out Shakespearean
prose.
For those who wonder about such
likelihoods--and others who question the need for those long
"crocodile lines" at Disneyworld--the Johns Hopkins
University Press has just the book for you. This spring JHU
Press will release What Are the Chances? Voodoo Deaths,
Office Gossip and Other Adventures in Probability, a
136-page volume that injects some fun into the bland world
of statistics.
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SPSBE degree lures
teachers
The opportunity to earn a Johns Hopkins master of arts in
teaching degree has proved to be a powerful incentive for
top college graduates from around the country to enroll in
the Teach For America program and pledge to spend two years
in high-need Baltimore schools.
The partnership be-tween the Graduate
Division of Education in the School of Professional Studies
in Business and Education and the Baltimore office of Teach
For America enables the local recruitment team from the
program to offer recent college graduates a chance to enter
the Hopkins MAT program at the same time they begin their
initial two-year tour of teaching in Baltimore's schools.
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