A runner who had never lost was beaten by three golden apples. A 2004 forecast had women outsprinting men at the 2156 Olympics, and finishing before the gun in 2636. Part three of three: what a published study's line and three simpler ones say about the health gap in 2100, and why they disagree.
The Fates tied a newborn's life to a burning log, and his mother put it out, then threw it back in years later. Part two of three: a published study sorted the world's countries by what costs them their healthy years and found three groups, and the rerun found one slope cut in two.
A goddess won her lover eternal life and forgot to ask for youth. Part one of three: a published study of how many years countries spend in poor health, rebuilt from public data because its code was never released. Most of it held.
Taft weeping over his closest friend in 1912, a friendship breaking apart at the Royal Statistical Society in 1935, and two statisticians whose falling out never got the ending anyone expects.
The Mona Lisa burning in Glass Onion's finale, the napkin burned just before it, and why four witnesses were never enough to overturn Miles's story.
An afternoon at an English research station, a story statisticians have retold for a century, and the woman most versions of it never bother to name.