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Fluke chance, chaos, and why everything we do matters

"In Fluke, social scientist Brian Klaas takes a deep-dive into the phenomenon of random chance and the chaos it can sow, taking aim at most people's neat and tidy version of reality. The book's argument is that we willfully ignore a bewildering truth: but for a few small changes, our lives -- and ou...

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Main Author: Klaas, Brian, 1986- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2024.
Edition:First Scribner hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Chance > Social aspects.
Chaotic behavior in systems.
Conduct of life.
Social psychology.
Forecasting.
Causation.
Informational works.
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Table of Contents:
  • Changing anything changes everything
  • Everything doesn't happen for a reason
  • Why our brains distort reality
  • The human swarm
  • Heraclitus rules
  • The storytelling animal
  • The lottery of Earth
  • Everyone's a butterfly
  • Of clocks and calendars
  • The emperor's new equations
  • Could it be otherwise?
  • Why everything we do matters.

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