Why Does Chance Fool Us? | The Chance of Chance

Podcast: Sleep Stories from the Pioneers · Pioneers of Human Behaviour

Opublikowano: 2026-10-30

Content note: This episode discusses gambling losses, family separation, and brief references to illness, death and warfare. Why does chance fool us, and why do we find patterns in randomness? Settle into The Chance of Chance, a thoughtful sleep story for adults exploring the history of probability, the mathematics of randomness, and the fascinating ways the human mind attempts to understand unpredictable events. Our journey begins on the road to Vidarbha, in an ancient Indian tale from the Mahabharata. A charioteer stops to investigate a king's extraordinary ability to count, opening a story about...