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Source: Thunder Bay, Canada. Used with permission of Dan Hunt, MD. Coincidences attract our attention because they seem weird, odd, or unlikely. Their improbability stimulates wonder—“what are the ...

In school, we are trained to think that math problems always have one correct answer. But this is not necessarily true for problems dealing with probability, if the method used to reach the described ...

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This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A potent idea in astrobiology is that by ...