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  1. Math

    Football’s Overtime Bias

    The coin toss appears to play a significant role in deciding the winner in pro football's sudden-death overtime.

    By Ivars Peterson
  2. Humans

    Letters from the November 6, 2004, issue of Science News

    Another view I suggest that world maps with countries colored by some statistical feature often would be more useful if done on a cartogram that is a compromise between population and size of countries, rather than on a map with a simple Mercator projection (“A Better Distorted View,” SN: 8/28/04, p. 136: A Better Distorted […]

    By Science News
  3. Humans

    From the November 3, 1934, issue

    Telephone transmitters, taking the bitter taste out of certain medicines, and the composition of planets.