From TFA:

All animals that received the drug lived, no matter when their treatment started; three monkeys that were not treated died.

We're not told the size of the control group, but if it were 18 monkeys to match the treated group, you had a very hardy set of monkeys or a less aggressive strain of the virus.

I mostly use lyric sites to discover what a catchy song is called when I only know one or two lines.

I totally get how they can argue that file sharing sites etc cost them revenue, but this!?

It is interesting to see how people here define 'Taking Notes'. There seem to be the two polar extremes of 'feverishly transcribing everything' and taking no notes whatsoever. There is a good middle ground of listen, learn, document your understanding. Apart from the distraction, laptops are poor because you just cannot sketch a diagram or simple flowchart as quickly as you can on paper. Even formal logic symbols, set notation or any of those visual representations of relationships are hard to come by quickly. Scribbling down your understandings as they come to you is more efficient than just listening, because translating the discovery into your own words and writing it down are two powerful mnemonic devices. You also get to choose the words that best describe the understanding you have gleaned, rather than using someone else's words.

Since when does a teenager need a "good reason" to be walking along the street?

Ah the "walking along the street' meme. As opposed to the checking out peoples houses and yards in the pouring rain in a suburb which has a recent high incidence of break ins? The first one wouldn't be a reason for neighbourhood watch to call it in. the second one probably would, and was what was testified to by the 911 Operator, the nieghbourhood watch organiser and the lady who actually had a home invasion in the area.

What are the odds of getting six white people on a jury? What are the odds of tossing heads six times in a row?

Different maths. Head or Tails on an unbiased coin is random chance. Jury selection is just that, selection.

Specifically jury selection is meant to rule out bias. The prosecution will move to strike any juror that strongly opposes their side. The defence tries the same thing. So you should end up with the least biased pool of jurors.

In this case, the prosecution had a technically weak case. They had the burden to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, yet the forensics were a nightmare, most of their witnesses were testifying in favour of the defendant and the witnesses who were firmly in their camp had had initial statements and depositions taken in very dubious circumstances. So they were going with the hopes that an emotional plea would get around that burden of proof.

The defence on the other hand had a technically strong case, for all the reasons cited above. So they needed people who wouldn't have preconceived notions or agendas, who would let the evidence and rule of law decide.

So the union of the sets {people more likely to be swayed by emotion} and {people least likely to have prejudicial knowledge of this case} turned out to be women who were mostly white (one was I believe hispanic). Either the prosecution or the defence struck off everyone else.

Maybe so but did George Zimmerman have any good reason to get out of his vehicle in the first place? If I thought I was being stalked by someone I might try to jump them too.

Well the 911 operator asked him where TM was going. That's when he got out of the car to find out. When the 911 Operator asked if he was following TM he said yes and the Operator told him 'you don't have to do that' and he said 'OK'. They then went on to discuss addresses or locations where the cops could meet him.

Why he got out of his car was done to death in the trial, and the 911 Operator was stepped through every line in the conversation. It's available on youtube

And other witnesses said GZ was on top.

Only one witness said that GZ was on top, and that was recanted because they explained that the larger person on top and they had assumed it was GZ because the media kept showing a 14 year old picture of TM. Once they realised that GZ was the smaller person they reversed the named positions.