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I just realized… Math is kinda beautiful.
…survivors usually move an average of five rows before they can get off a burning aircraft. That’s the cutoff…the people who are most likely to survive a plane crash are people who are sitting right next to the exit row or one row away. Not a particular exit row but any exit row.
…research has shown that the first three minutes of a plane flight and the last eight — this is called the rule of plus three/minus eight — are when about 80% of airplane accidents take place.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1872154,00.html#ixzz0f5WtPJLt
…is reading
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers