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  • Instead of using random coin flippings let’s use a real world example and take this jpg of a bacterial flagellum and some secretory systems:

    The Skeptic paper online - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • Well, the idea that a great many uncertainties - a long series of coin-flippings, say - will miraculously add up to one big certainty.

    Archive 2005-03-01 2005

  • Well, the idea that a great many uncertainties - a long series of coin-flippings, say - will miraculously add up to one big certainty.

    Sheer volume. 2005

  • That will surely provoke one of her more memorial temper tantrums and hair-flippings.

    The Palast Paladins vs. Coulter's Crusaders 2006

  • There would be giggles now and then -- sly flippings of paper darts -- but no organized ragging, and no unkindness.

    The Twins At St Clare's Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1967

  • From 2007-08, he averaged over one keying a week, along with innumerable flippings-off.

    Hot Air » Top Picks 2009

  • A clear Conservative victory at the end of what it's their turn to call "13 wasted years"; a hung parliament with the Liberal Democrats holding the balance; the outright Lib Dem success which a few of them truly believe in; a wholly unexpected resurrection of Labour – any of these would make it an epic occasion, with exhilaration for some, despair for others, and a sense for the rest of us that despite all the moats and duckboards and flippings of second homes, British politics is not the incurable turn-off it so recently seemed.

    General election 2010 is shaping up to be a very good vintage 2010

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