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Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by DR BRIAN. KLAAS is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters about?

In the perspective-altering tradition of Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point & Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan comes a provocative challenge to how we think our world works—and why small, chance events can divert our lives & change everything, by social scientist & Atlantic writer Brian Klaas. If you could rewind your life to the very beginning & then press play, would everything turn out the same? Or could making an accidental phone call or missing an exit off the highway change not just your life, but history itself? And would you remain blind to the radically different possible world you unknowingly left behind? In Fluke, myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas dives deeply into the phenomenon of random chance & the chaos it can sow, taking aim at most people’s neat & tidy storybook version of reality. The book’s argument is that we willfully ignore a bewildering truth: but for a few small changes, our lives—and our societies—could be radically different. Offering an entirely new lens, Fluke explores how our world really works, driven by strange interactions & apparently random events. How did one couple’s vacation cause 100,000 people to die? Does our decision to h

Who reads Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
DR BRIAN. KLAAS
Publisher
Scribner, Simon & Schuster
Published
2024
Language
EN
ISBN
9781668006528
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Philosophy, Social Science, Cultural

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