I'm not a rabbi, but with my beard I'm often mistaken for one. Especially for one particular rabbi, who lives in my town and who everybody thinks looks just like me. (He and I happened to be in a checkout line together a few weeks ago, and they asked if we were brothers. We aren't.) I'm not … [Read more...]
“Can It Be Coincidence?” – Barney Hill, Whitley Strieber, and the Sinking of the Titanic
"The single most important thing to understand is that in most cases of startling coincidences it is impossible to make even a rough estimate of their probability. They are what mathematicians call problems that are not 'well formed.'" --Martin Gardner, The Wreck of the Titanic Foretold? How … [Read more...]
