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The Manga Guide to Statistics 164

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 15, 2008 @03:02PM from the read-all-about-it dept.

stoolpigeon writes "Many manga titles that are popular in Japan are being translated into English and published in the United States. This trend continues with a book that puts a slightly different spin on manga. The Manga Guide to Statistics, part of a series already popular in Japan, seeks to entertain while it informs. There are many elements here that can be found in any manga; a young love-struck girl, giant eyes, small noses and exaggerated emotional responses. What many may not have seen in manga before are things like calculating the mean, median and deviation of bowling scores. And that is just the start." Read below for the rest of JR's review.

Comment Re:no American power plants burn Oil (Score 1) 1563

by juaja on Thursday June 19, 2008 @11:26AM (#23857659) Attached to: McCain Backs Nuclear Power

It's not that simple: We import much of our gasoline in part because for the last 30 years the government has been systematically draining the state-owned oil company of all of its profits to finance other programs (partly because of the big tax cuts they give to big enterprises) instead of using the money on building new refineries and such.

Also some argue that since the mid 80's the company has been left to die on purpose in order to show the incompetence of state-owned companies against the "copious benefits" of having private enterprises participating. Right now there's a big discussion on the senate on the subject.

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