Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, Is there anybody out there?

This suggests that a probability of life appearing is reasonably high.

But it could equally be the case that it's the learning disabilities that cause the hyperactivity.

And, at the end, although it may rise, it will just cross the mind, like a bird crossing the sky without leaving any track.

And a more recent one The possibility of sustaining high culture in our time is becoming increasing problematical.

A few years ago, Professor Vaclav Smil tried to calculate the probability of sudden disasters large enough to change history.

Some linguists believe it is a distinct possibility that Icelandic will lose out to English.

you can't plan that kind of stuff Apophis is going to hit us. And it's 250 meters across, so it would do Now the good news is that the odds of it actually passing through this keyhole and hitting us next go around are one in a million, roughly very, very low odds, so I personally am not lying awake at night worrying about this at all.

The white dots are the probability wave that will show you where the electron is in any given point of time and space in this particular three orbital configuration.

There's a cognitive illusion. We cognitive psychologists know that the easier it is to recall specific instances of something, the higher the probability that you assign to it.

You would strictly have to be agnostic about whether there is a teapot in orbit about Mars, but that doesn't mean you treat the likelihood of its existence as on all fours with its non existence.

In 2003, an Australian research team led by Graham Giles of The Cancer Council Australia found that males masturbating frequently had a lower probability to develop prostate cancer.

The red bars correspond to the likelihood that a man will die at the hands of another man, as opposed to passing away of natural causes, in a variety of foraging societies in the New Guinea Highlands and the Amazon Rainforest.

And very few of them control for the possibility that parents pass on genes for that increase the chances a child will be articulate or violent and so on.

In the 1900s, early 1900s gynecologists, a lot of gynecologists believed that when a woman has an orgasm the contractions serve to suck the semen up through the cervix and sort of deliver it really quickly to the egg, thereby upping the odds of conception.