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

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 ...

By contrast, Rothschild's first novel, "The Improbability of Love," is an exuberant, uneven satire of consumption and corruption in the London art world.This is fiction aimed at readers who find ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 dust jacket of “The Improbability of Love” claims that it is “a satire worthy of Evelyn Waugh.” That’s neither true nor helpful. For sure, author Hannah Rothschild has an occasional ...

The mind-blowing statistical improbability of Matt Schaub’s pick-six problem December 6, 2015 Miami Dolphins defensive end Derrick Shelby smiles as he scores a touchdown after intercepting ...

A new algorithm speeds simulations of chemical reactions by focusing on rare but crucial molecular motions.

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 ...