Randomness Week

Though the rich sometimes forget, Darwin knew that nature frequently rolls the dice.

• By Noah Berlatsky

"Sometimes people just get pains."

• By Jake Blumgart

For all the crystal balls and beaded doorways, some psychics provide a useful, non-paranormal service. The best ones—they give good advice.

• By Andy Wright

Noah Davis talks to David Sally, one of the authors of The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong, about how uncertainty affects and enhances the games we watch.

• By Noah Davis

Our human minds are incapable of truly answering that question.

• By Aaron Gordon