Stochasticity (a wonderfully slippery and smarty-pants word for randomness), may be at the very foundation of our lives. To understand how big a role it plays, we look at chance and patterns in sports, lottery tickets, and even the cells in our own body.

Along the way, we talk to a woman suddenly consumed by a frenzied gambling addiction, meet two friends whose meeting seems to defy pure chance, and take a close look at some very noisy bacteria.

***A Very Lucky Wind. An English girl just shy of ten years old, didn't realize the strange course her life would take after her red balloon was swept away into the sky

***Seeking Patterns

***Random Rules

[June 15, 2009]