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November 30, 2007
'Step:' A Short Film by DK
Some of you will wonder why Dandan has been quiet for so long. Things have been cooking up over at DesignKompany.com is the reason.
Blogs often die and I don't want Dandan to be a statistic! So I hope you don't mind the long silence. I will see if Akira can write something.
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November 27, 2007
Two Sets of Twins at the Same Time!!
Today I met a woman who's got two sets of twins.
Two sets of twins!!!
[Twins Twins]+[Twins Twins]
The sun was out and it was a lovely time to be walking around Eastlake. Except I wasn't walking, I was waiting for a bus. The bus wasn't here yet. Bicyclists cursed drivers. People waited. And... my mind starts up...
That woman has two sets of twins! How the hell?... Maybe it's fertility drugs, I heard about those septuplets. Or... maybe it's just the randomness of nature. I wonder, though, what are the odds of having two sets of twins?
Of course I have to look into this.
According to Babycenter.com, "These days, about one in 32 births are twin births. This rate has gone up 65 percent since 1980. --Babycenter.com
So there’s me thinking:
Probability of having one set of twins = 1/32 = .03125, or about 3%. Fair enough.
That means... all other things being equal*, the probability of having two sets of twins = (1/32)^2 = 1/1024.
In other words, .000975, or .0975%. Less than one percent. Dude, less than a tenth of one percent!!!
I'm still curious. What about other scenarios, for example, two sets of twins at the same time?
What I find with the help of Google is Dr. Iannelli, who apparently was curious about the same questions as me, and did his own round of internet research on the probabilities of having twins.
Though dated, Dr. I found from his searches that the chance of having 'natural' quads that are made up of two sets of identical twins is thought to be... 1 in 25-36 million.
But it happened! He writes: "A family in Nevada gave birth to four identical boys (Karma quads) in 1997, and two families, one in California (Khamsa/Muy quads) and another in Washington (Hulford quads) had four identical girls in 2002."
Read further about twins. Specifically, fetishes... in the Stranger
*Qualified!
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November 1, 2007
Why I Didn't Take a Digital Camera
Just back from Europe, on assignment for Design Kompany.
Of course I had to bring along my trusty Minolta SLR. But I didn't bring the digital camera.
Reasons:
Battery could fail, weighty, charger needs to be handled, memory runs out, and the fact that you can always find a picture of something you saw somewhere online.
Above: Milan's Duomo.
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