
Fluke
Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
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Brian Klaas
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Brian Klaas
This “captivating illustration of the follies of trying to model and forecast the unpredictable world” (Financial Times) is both “empowering” (The New Statesman, UK) and “compelling” (New Scientist) as it challenges our most fundamental assumptions—by social scientist and Atlantic writer Brian Klaas.
If you could rewind your life to the very beginning and 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?
In Fluke, myth-shattering 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 our societies—could be radically different.
Offering an entirely new lens, Fluke explores how our world really works, driven by strange interactions and apparently random events. How did one couple’s vacation cause 100,000 people to die? Does our decision to hit the snooze button in the morning radically alter the trajectory of our lives? And has the evolution of humans been inevitable, or are we simply the product of a series of freak accidents?
Drawing on social science, chaos theory, history, evolutionary biology, and philosophy, Klaas provides a brilliantly fresh look at why things happen—all while providing mind-bending lessons on how we can live smarter, be happier, and lead more fulfilling lives.
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Another outstanding book from Klaas!
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Glad I read it but not my highest recommendation.
Not bad —but I was hoping for mote
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Very nice and interesting!
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This book should be listed as fiction
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The "What If"and the "What Is" book.
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Uñbèlievaɓle facts about things I thought I knew a lot about, which make history infinitely more facinating
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Thought provoking
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l listened to this book again. It was even better the second time. Especially the chapter on free will. It addressed questions that I have been discussing with my nephew who is a quantum physics professor. I asked him if there were free will and he said yes. I said how can that be possible? So we go around and around about it. Brian Klaas has clarified a lot of these ideas for me. Thanks again, Brian.
The obvious logic
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Deep and thoughtful
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Thought provoking
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