“Thus there is a 1.8% chance that none of the molecules you are (still) holding in your lungs came from Caesar’s last breath. And there is a 98.2% chance that at least one of the molecules in your lungs came from Caesar’s last breath. From John Allen Paulos’s Innumeracy.”
One Hundred Interesting Mathematical Calculations, Number 7: Archive Entry From Brad DeLong’s Webjournal
This is a letter from Richard Feynman to Stephen Wolfram sent back in 1985. (via Letters of Note: You don’t understand “ordinary people”) Found in a hilarious reddit thread (via @zoltananda).
Oh. My. God. Macro Photography of Human Eyes
