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Chaos: Making a New Science
Ever tried to predict the weather and failed spectacularly? Or wondered why tiny changes sometimes explode into chaos? James Gleick’s Chaos: Making a New Science dives headfirst into the wild, unpredictable world behind those everyday frustrations. It’s a story about how a butterfly flapping its wings can, theoretically, cause a tornado halfway across the globe—and why that’s not just poetic nonsense.
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