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Page 32: Short Takes on Five Vermont Books

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Seven Days writers can t possibly read, much less review, all the books that arrive in a steady stream by post, email and, in one memorable case, a richness of minks. So this monthly feature is our way of introducing you to a handful of books by Vermont authors. To do that, we contextualize each book just a little and quote a single representative sentence from, yes, page 32.
The Business of Botanicals: Exploring the Healing Promise of Plant Medicines in a Global Industry
Ann Armbrecht, Chelsea Green Publishing, 288 pages. $24.95.
It was a hippie dream, Drake said, to make $10,000.
In the 1970s, herbalist ....

United States , Drake Sadler , Donald Trump , Jones Deady , Taylor Swift , Ann Armbrecht , Terrence Youk , Georgerr Martin , E Ray Sokol , Rosemary Gladstar , Charles Simpson , Richard Hawley , Sustainable Herbs Program , University Of New York Plattsburgh , Healing Promise , Plant Medicines , Chelsea Green Publishing , Traditional Medicinals , Healing Power , Savoy Theater , The Business , Global Industry , Steep Side , Rand Smith Publishing , Orchises Press , Fomite Press ,

Magician-turned-mathematician uncovers bias in coin flipping

By ESTHER LANDHUIS
Persi Diaconis has spent much of his life turning scams inside out. In 1962, the then 17-year-old sought to stymie a Caribbean casino that was allegedly using shaved dice to boost house odds in games of chance. In the mid-1970s, the upstart statistician exposed some key problems in ESP research and debunked a handful of famed psychics. Now a Stanford professor of mathematics and statistics, Diaconis has turned his attention toward simpler phenomena: determining whether coin flipping is random. Could a simple coin toss used routinely to decide which team gets the ball, for instance actually be rigged? ....

New York , United States , Cornell University , Joseph Keller , Persi Diaconis , Aharon Kapitulnik , Stephen Shenker , Ali Ercan , Brian Wandell , Abbas El Gamal , Richard Montgomery , Susan Holmes , Hans Andersen , Joe Blitzstein , El Gamal , Martin Gardner , Las Vegas , Fred Mosteller , Tony Daristotile , William Feller , Esther Landhuis , Dai Vernon , University Of California , City College Of New York , Columbia University David Bayer , Statistics Department ,