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His collections were also the basis for the founding of the British Museum (which later split to also form both the Natural History Museum and British Library), and he took over as…

Yes, inter-country inequality has been coming down despite in-country inequality going up. The rich have been getting richer and the poorest have been getting richer while the midd…

Yes, but having been declared fit to work you would expect that their health has been assessed and "passed" and so expect lower mortality rates in this population, or at least lowe…

There's broadly two approaches actuaries use (I can't speak for this particular site which uses UN projections): - One is to look at the average level of mortality improvements in …

> One of the things I thought was amazing is that if you solve cancer, you’d add about three years to people’s average life expectancy ... it’s not as big an advance as you might t…

You're publicising a problem with the company and so it has more of an incentive to deal with it quickly.

My problem was mainly the availability of the materials. Codecademy and duolingo give you access to as much as you require from the start and you can go through as quickly as you l…

It's possible to turn on circular calculations and to limit the number of iterations at a global level (I've never seen it limited at a local level), which could be used as recursi…

Excel 2010 is certainly more novice friendly, but I'd take 2003's interface back in a flash - customising/grouping shortcut icons doesn't seem nearly as friendly in 2010 and it's a…

The Data Protection Act 1998 would presumably apply in the UK and Ireland, and the EU has a data protection directive. My expectation would be that they could not disclose everythi…

It's not perfectly linear in the short term, though what tends to happen is a longer-term cyclical effect rather than spikes. This makes sense - medical advances won't be widely ad…

The other thing to consider is how the causes of death interact, and who it is that's contributing to mortality/survival rates. For example, perhaps people in France have higher ca…

I often speak with a colleague by phone and for whatever reason our connection creates this effect. It's very disorienting at first, but you can get used to ignoring it quite quick…

Ok thanks for clearing that up. I hadn't appreciated the difference between the two.

Yes, but the average value of the sampled values will tend towards a Normal distribution by the central limit theorem, and I'm probably misapplying it by wondering whether the next…

Great article. This is probably a question for the statisticians: Would repeatedly sampling from a uniform distribution mean that on average the next card chosen will come from the…

Edit: (search box was broken: http://i.imgur.com/Z5chu.png ) Ah, it was a zoom issue with firefox. I like the redesign. Perhaps long-term you can make zoomed/unzoomed pages degrade…

Safari on iOS 4.3.3; standard 3GS setup.

They have, but it hasn't worked particularly well: http://imgur.com/PSvIm

The text is illegible against a good number of the background images they've chosen (at least on a mobile browser). That doesn't seem like a good advert for a design team, or am I …

I agree that a 150 year life expectancy is very unlikely in the next 20 years, but the possibility of people who are alive in 2030 reaching 150 seems plausible. I think that's the …

The main form of stress for actuaries that they measure is deadlines. There might be a bit of travel if they are a consultant, but otherwise job security tends to be quite good, sa…

I'm planning on learning Python and R. A career advisor gave me some very bad advice at 16 ("you're too old to learn programming properly") and I intend to rectify that this year.

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/ is a useful reference point for creating fluid design. Essentially you can specify different css depending on the width of…

As a European user I feel let down that we still haven't got a paid app catalogue, and we're constantly lagging in the version updates. I think of it at present as a very promising…