Have you ever pondered how rare your existence truly is in this infinite universe? From the Big Bang to the emergence of intelligent life, the odds of you existing are astronomically low. Scientists ...

David Hand is a British mathematician and developed the Improbability Principle. 2 The essence of the Improbability Principle is what we may think as rare events happen every day and that we ...

The concentration of carbon dioxide gas in today’s atmosphere is 417ppm (parts per million). There are 10^44 gas molecules in the entire atmosphere (78% diatomic nitrogen, 21% diatomic oxygen, 1 ...

Hannah Rothschild’s new novel “The Improbability of Love” is an insider’s look at the international art market, a satire of consumption and corruption in the London art world.

The best of many sharply drawn protagonists may be the painting itself, an endearingly anthropomorphized diva slyly unfurling its own storied history—and gazing down from its canvas perch on the ...

I like to think I’m unique. Don’t you? Complicated. Surprising. Unpredictable. I like to think that people who’ve only just met me or who know only the basic facts about me still have a lot to learn.

The improbability principle says that those very rare events, those very strange coincidence, in fact should be expected to happen. Now, that sounds like a contradiction.

Humans love to read meaning into the improbable, even when such events—from Germany's World Cup loss to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's congressional win—happen frequently.

That makes us at once the audience and the spectacle. This may be the real reason why, in this election season, no one can get anything right: millions of Americans won’t let them. The supporters of ...

The improbability of subjective elephants, if too easily assumed, may cast doubt on the validity of the improbability hypothesis applied to objective elephants.