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1 Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky
Luck has a lot to do with success. We just don’t want to admit it.
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2 Investing Is More Luck Than Talent
The surprising message of the statistics of wealth distribution.
BY Moshe Levy -
3 How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math
Sorry, education reformers, it’s still memorization and repetition we need.
BY Barbara Oakley -
4 The Multiple Multiverses May Be One and the Same
If multiverses seem weird, it’s because we need to revamp our notions of time and space.
BY Dan Falk -
5 How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games
The responsibilities and challenges of programmed luck.
BY Simon Parkin -
6 Is Artificial Intelligence Permanently Inscrutable?
Despite new biology-like tools, some insist interpretation is impossible.
BY Aaron M. Bornstein
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1 How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math
The building blocks of understanding are memorization and repetition.
BY Barbara Oakley -
2 Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky
Luck has a lot to do with success. We just don’t want to admit it.
BY Bob Henderson -
3 How to Be Lucky
It pays to imagine your life is on a winning streak.
BY Chelsea Wald -
4 Is Artificial Intelligence Permanently Inscrutable?
Despite new biology-like tools, some insist interpretation is impossible.
BY Aaron M. Bornstein -
5 Investing Is More Luck Than Talent
The surprising message of the statistics of wealth distribution.
BY Moshe Levy -
6 How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games
The responsibilities and challenges of programmed luck.
BY Simon Parkin
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The Key to Good Luck Is an Open Mind
Luck can seem synonymous with randomness. To call someone lucky is usually to deny the relevance of their hard work or talent. As Richard Wiseman, the Professor of Public Understanding…
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Inside the Goth Chicken: Black Bones, Black Meat, and a Black Heart
In the historical novel The Black Tulip, written by Alexandre Dumas, an honest and decent Dutch tulip fancier is nearly brought to ruin by his quest to breed a purely black flower. More…
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Why Theories of Everything Are Ill-Conceived
The police don’t often sympathize with speeding drivers, but if you’re a quantum gravity physicist who was distracted by a grand epiphany while driving at night, you might have a better…
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Why We Hear Voices in Random Noise
You may have once seen a giant face in the clouds. Perhaps it took you aback, amused you, or maybe it prompted an “uncanny valley” kind of sensation—realness, but with a lingering…
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