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Stochasticity

Stochasticity (a wonderfully slippery and smarty-pants word for "randomness"), may be at the very foundation of our lives. To understand just how big a role it plays, we look at chance and patterns in sports, lottery tickets, and even the cells in our own body. And we meet two girls named Laura, whose unlikely meeting seems to defy pure chance.

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