Tag: Chance

Isn’t it fascinating how some people suddenly, as if by chance, become wildly successful? It seemingly happens all the time. What did they do beforehand, and where does chance fit into their success? What is chance? Many of us know there is far more to chance than chance alone. How do yo...

On the 31st of August 1986, a quiet holiday weekend in the Los Angeles suburb of Cerritos was shattered by a distant bang, the roar of engines, and a mighty explosion. In the skies overhead, two planes had come together in the busy airspace near Los Angeles International Airport: a private Piper PA-...

It’s nine o’clock on Thursday night. Friday night in the Middle East. The weekend’s here and all are heading home or with their kids, or out and about at bars. I’m with my fellow students, walking on wet walkways of our University. The skies are almost clear, the moon is out....

When former presidential candidate Andrew Yang announced recently that he had helped to form a new, somewhat centrist third party, I knew that he was about to be raked over the coals. I knew that people on the right would immediately dismiss the effort because the Republican Party has moved so very ...

Prathima Muniyappa is a Designer, Conservator, and a research assistant for the Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab. She is interested in addressing issues of social and climate justice and works in close collaboration with Indigenous communities across the world to support them in the...

If I have a daughter,” she says, “I will probably think about it every day of her life.” Michelle, a 32-year-old public health practitioner in Illinois, only learned she was BRCA-positive last year. The news upended her life plans to eventually have more children once she and he...