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The third appeal of six people against life sentences imposed 15 years ago raises sombre questions about the management of forensic services, not to mention the quality of British justice.
A simulation of a fluid of interacting particles in a box much narrower in one dimension than the other two reveals a curious bimodal density distribution along the short dimension — and provides a telling example of Poisson statistics.
