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? 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 and the chaos it can sow, taking aim at most people’s neat and 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 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 evol
In this seventh DATA Set adventure, the kids fast-forward and rewind time with an all-controlling TV remote!Dr. Bunsen has built an all-controlling TV remote that the DATA Set use to fast-forward and
Kathy, a self-reliant idealist, and Bill, a charming trust fund kid, meet as undergrads at an Ivy League college in 2012. After a whirlwind courtship, Bill places his sizable fortune in Kathy’s philan
Rewind charts the history of design and advertising over the last forty years. Covering a wide range of creative disciplines - including graphic design, TV, press and poster advertising, packaging, pr
Watcher Adam Sarno, who possesses a video camera that he can use to rewind time and reality, focuses the lens at a particular event before stepping into the picture himself