A single elevated ESR, without any symptoms of a specific disease, will usually not give enough information to make a medical decision. Furthermore, a normal result does not rule out inflammation or disease. Moderately elevated ESR occurs with inflammation but also with anemia, infection, pregnancy, and with aging.
Between 65 and 81 percent of people can curl their tongues, and slightly more women than men can do it, studies find. The notion that a person's ability to roll his or her tongue is determined by a single dominant gene stems from a paper published in 1940 by geneticist Alfred Sturtevant.
This number is approximately 8.5255. So, on average, you can expect to hold the dice about eight and a half rolls when playing Craps. Next month we'll look at the harder problem of determining how many rolls it takes to have an even chance of losing the dice. See you then.