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🗓️ 21 July 2016
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Your host opens his file of near misses and close calls. Joe Mazur examines the math and myth behind the stories we call coincidences. Plus a grasp at the law of truly large numbers.
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1:27.0 | This installment is called Something Will Happen, eventually. Using advanced |
1:35.0 | using advanced technology I've been keeping tabs on the movements of |
1:46.1 | certain individuals both known and unknown to me. |
1:49.4 | Using the same methodologies that intelligence agencies use to build profiles of possible |
1:55.8 | jihadis or subversives, I've been tracking their movements and associations across continents |
2:02.4 | and decades. |
2:04.0 | And I've happened upon a number of strange coincidence-like coincidences. |
2:11.0 | For example, I have an ex-girlfriend, Marquetta. |
2:15.0 | From her LinkedIn page, I gleaned that on the night of July 1st, 2012, she was camping in Yellowstone at a K-O-A site near the West Yellowstone entrance. |
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