Stochasticity

When Kelley Benham and her husband Tom French finally got pregnant, after many attempts and a good deal of technological help, everything was perfect. Until it wasn't. Their story raises questions that, until recently, no parent had to face… and that are still nearly impossible t ...  Show more

We’re coming up on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and it had us thinking about an episode we produced in 2014. It’s the story of one sentence, written in the hours after September 11th, 2001, that has led to the longest war in U.S. history. We examine how just 60 words ...  Show more

Learn about the chaotic motion that underlies even the most ordered structures, including life.

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the strange mathematics of probability where heads or tails is a simple question with a far from simple answer. Gambling may be as old as the hills but probability as a mathematical discipline is a relative youngster. Probability is the field of ma ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the strange mathematics of probability where heads or tails is a simple question with a far from simple answer. Gambling may be as old as the hills but probability as a mathematical discipline is a relative youngster. Probability is the field of ma ...  Show more

Do we create our own luck? Or is it random? In this episode of Thick & Thin, I strive to discover the true definition of luck and why humans are so obsessed with being lucky. // Follow me on IG: instagram.com/katybellotte // Sources: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/reinve ...  Show more