Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TikTok's latest obsession is chaos theory but it's a little less complicated than it sounds. People are using the butterfly effect ...

In 1972, the US meteorologist Edward Lorenz asked a now-famous question: "Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?" The image of the tiny flapping butterfly has come ...

Small changes can have incredibly large and unintended consequences, whether for good or for ill. And no matter how smart you (think you) are, there’s absolutely no way that you can predict all of the ...

Is the 2004 Ashton Kutcher vehicle The Butterfly Effect a good movie? Definitely not, no—but try telling that to me at age thirteen. And then wrap your head, once more, around the fact that if you had ...

In 1961, MIT meteorologist Edward Lorenz was inputting numbers into a weather prediction program. His model was based on a dozen variables, the value of one being .506127. When he ran the model again, ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Living in suburbia already has enough of a bum rap, but the lives of Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher ...