Last Rose of November, 2100 block of Park Avenue, St. Louis, MO

Somewhere in my reading I came across the notion of surprise as the mathematical result of combining seemly unconnected statistical outliers. A metaphors can be seen as an equivalence of meanings, and statisically those meanings are positions along a statistical distribution...

Arthropod-borne viruses, known as "arboviruses", are of increasing concern to epidemiologists because modern transportation methods make it relatively easy to unwittingly infect new areas. An emerging arbovirus called chikungunya is becoming an issue, although it's not yet a problem in the U.S...

To know is to bring light to a situation; to enlighten; to understand; to make visible. There are many ways to bring the light of knowledge to bear on something.