World Science Festival
Season 1, Episode 11: The Illusion of Certainty: Risk, Probability, and Chance
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Stuff happens. The weather forecast says it’s sunny, but you just got drenched. You got a flu shot—but you’re sick in bed with the flu. Your best friend from Boston met your other best friend from San Francisco. Coincidentally. What are the odds? Risk, probability, chance, coincidence—they play a significant role in the way we make decisions about health, education, relationships, and money. But where does this data come from and what does it really mean?
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
Infinite Worlds: A Journey through Parallel Universes
Episode 2
Quantum Reality: Space, Time, and Entanglement
Episode 3
A Thin Sheet of Reality: The Universe as a Hologram
Episode 4
Beyond Beauty: The Predictive Power of Symmetry
Episode 5
Engineering the Brain: Deploying a New Neural Toolkit
Episode 6
Gravitational Waves: A New Era of Astronomy Begins
Episode 7
Hidden Dimensions: Exploring Hyperspace
Episode 8
Neutrinos, Matter, and Antimatter: The Yin Yang of the Big Bang
Episode 9
How Music Affects Your Brain: Notes on the Folds
Episode 10
Measure for Measure: Quantum Physics and Reality
Episode 11
The Illusion of Certainty: Risk, Probability, and Chance
Episode 12
The Matter of Antimatter: Answering the Cosmic Riddle of Existence