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Daily Archives: October 2, 2015

Getting terrorism into context

Posted on October 2, 2015 by jjn1

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Reminds me of the CATO study.

Thanks to James Miller, who pointed me to Wikipedia’s page on automobile accidents in the US which says that in 2012, an average of 92 people died every day in road accidents. (There were 33,782 fatal accidents that year.)

Posted in Politics

How to build an airliner in just over four minutes!

Posted on October 2, 2015 by jjn1

This is lovely. But see how the Dreamliner flies.

On the other hand, it might be unwise to drink coffee while airborne.

Posted in Beyond belief
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