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Read a short biography about Daniel Bernoulli, and find out about his work in fluid mechanics, and his pioneering work in probability and statistics.
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This article, published by Scientific American (September 2002), explores how smart people can believe weird and silly things. The article comes to the conclusion that our beliefs are shaped more by our environment than our understanding...