Science news articles about 'roulette'

  • Analysis Of A Roulette Strategy

    As Hank explains in a recent article, when he visits a Casino he plays the Roulette. His simple strategy consists in betting on a single colour, doubling the bet every time he loses; when he wins, he ...
  • All bets are off: Office pools lead to unhappiness

    ... of their own enjoyment and happiness," write the authors. "Our results imply that a consumer playing roulette might actually enjoy that gamble more if the 'house' rather than the consumer chooses the ...
  • Timing is everything: How vulnerable to flooding is New York City?

    ... and because the strongest winds luckily occurred during local low tide. "We're playing Russian roulette in some sense with these storms coming up the coast," says Colle. "If we have a high tide or ...
  • Accuracy, efficacy and ethics of abstinence-only programs questioned by public health experts

    ... rate of condoms, suggesting that using condoms is somewhat like playing "Russian roulette" with HIV. Study results are consistent with earlier reviews that found medical inaccuracies throughout a ...
  • Winning responses to near-misses

    ... to near-misses. However, on gambling games where the wins are random, like slot machines or roulette, near-misses do not signal your future success. Importantly, our volunteers in this study were not ...
  • Obese women play cancer roulette

    Obese women may be putting themselves at greater risk of breast cancer by not undergoing regular screening. According to new research by Dr. Nisa Maruthur and her team from The John Hopkins ...
  • Obese women play cancer roulette

    Obese women may be putting themselves at greater risk of breast cancer by not undergoing regular screening. According to new research by Dr Nisa Maruthur and her team from The John Hopkins University ...
  • Don't shoot the scientists

    ... ). In his dismay at the lack of a pandemic he reminds me of a man playing Russian roulette who, after two squeezes of the trigger, declares: "Ha! This isn't dangerous after all!" The possibility of a ...
  • MIT: Climate change odds much worse than thought

    ... illustrate the range of probabilities revealed by the 400 simulations, Prinn and the team produced a "roulette wheel" that reflects the latest relative odds of various levels of temperature rise. The ...
  • Sex disorders linked to Y chromosome's instability

    ... , a so-called isodicentric Y. And those isodicentric Y chromosomes can lead to a kind of "roulette game" with regard to developmental outcome, says David Page, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...
  • Houses of the rising sun

    ... applies some simple mathematics from probability that would more usually be used in the context of coin tossing or roulette wheels. Dr Salt explained further: "The situation with temples in Greece ...

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