A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You - Sean B. Carroll Audiobook
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“Fascinating and exhilarating - Sean B. Carroll at his very best.” (Bill Bryson, author of The Body: A Guide for Occupants)
In this audiobook, acclaimed writer and biologist Sean B. Carroll narrates the rollicking, awe-inspiring story of the surprising power of chance in our lives and the world.
Why is the world the way it is? How did we get here? Does everything happen for a reason, or are some things left to chance? Philosophers and theologians have pondered these questions for millennia, but startling scientific discoveries over the past half century are revealing that we live in a world driven by chance. A Series of Fortunate Events tells the story of the awesome power of chance and how it is the surprising source of all the beauty and diversity in the living world.
Like every other species, we humans are here by accident. But it is shocking just how many things - any of which might never have occurred - had to happen in certain ways for any of us to exist. From an extremely improbable asteroid impact, to the wild gyrations of the Ice Age, to invisible accidents in our parents’ gonads, we are all here through an astonishing series of fortunate events. And chance continues to reign every day over the razor-thin line between our life and death.
This is a relatively small work about a really big idea. It is also a spirited tale. Drawing inspiration from Monty Python, Kurt Vonnegut, and other great thinkers, and crafted by one of today’s most accomplished science storytellers, A Series of Fortunate Events is an irresistibly entertaining and thought-provoking account of one of the most important but least appreciated facts of life.
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This post has 10 comments with rating of 4.7/5
August 4th, 2021
Fascinating book about contingency. Sean B. Carroll is always an interesting voice for science. Many thanks!
August 4th, 2021
I love chance.
I bought a motorcycle many years back. I caught a train from Reading to Leicester, where I was meant to meet the person I was buying the bike from.
I got off the train, wandering around, and decided to call the seller. I was talking to him and we were trying to find each other and I saw a guy on a phone looking around. We made eye contact, and I said, down the phone, “hey, I see you”, waved, took the phone from my ear and walked up to him. We shook hands, walked to his car and headed to the bike.
Whilst he drove me there, we made idle chat. I asked how his holiday had been, as this was the reason we had delayed meeting up to do the exchange of money for merchandise. He did seem a little akilter to this question, but nonplussed.
It wasn’t until we got to his garage and he unveiled this nice, shiny, sports bike, and he asked, “so, what do you think?”, that things started to fall apart.
I was like, “that’s a really nice bike, but where’s the I came to see?”. He looked at me all confused. I don’t have , this is what I am selling. I immediately thought it was a scam, but the bike actually looked in better nick than the one I had bought, so that didn’t make sense.
I said, “you are called Dave?”. He replied, “Yes”. Encouraged, I added, “and, you are selling ?”. He replied, “no”. “Did you recently come back off holiday?”, to which he also said, “no”.
It was then we both decided to recall our respective buyer/seller and establish they were still at Leicester station in a similarly confused state.
August 4th, 2021
The above wall of text has had some left and right angle brackets removed. Please, try to add them mentally in the appropriate places. If feeling sufficently mentally adroit, insert the word, ‘bike’, inbetween those imaginary angular braces.
August 4th, 2021
Disappointed, Tigerman. I was hoping that was going to end in a romantic clinch of some description. I luv happy endings.
“A passionate kiss is like a spider’s web, it soon leads to undoing of fly.”
(”A man who does business in a knocking shop gets jerked around.”)
August 5th, 2021
:-) The old Alfred P Dolittle theory eh?
August 6th, 2021
Why would he drive you to see a bike he wasn’t going to sell… Was he there for a man date?
August 6th, 2021
If you set your expectations lower, you’ll never be disappointed.
August 6th, 2021
kinetic69, he was selling a bike, just not the bike I wanted to buy :)
Somehow, 2 buyers/sellers of motorcycles booked the same time and station to meet each other. Add to this, both sellers were called Dave, and all the involved parties were on their mobile phones trying to find each other when the wrong pair saw each other and assumed that the person on the other end of the phone was the one in their view.
August 6th, 2021
At least you got two rides out of ‘im. Can’t say fairer, me ole china pot. They sound like a right pair of Rodneys.
August 26th, 2021
Confucius say: Man with hole in his pocket feel cocky all day.
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