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 ...

Aya Tsintziras is a freelance writer who writes about TV, movies, and has a particular interest in the horror genre. She has a Political Science degree from the University of Toronto and a Masters of ...

There is an iconic scene in “Jurassic Park” where Jeff Goldblum explains chaos theory. “It simply deals with unpredictability in complex systems,” he says. “The shorthand is ‘the butterfly effect.’ A ...

The butterfly effect is a concept first popularized in the 1960s by a mathematician and meteorologist named Edward Lorenz. It essentially holds that the mere fluttering of a butterfly's wing can lead ...

It is easy to confuse this picture with a work of art. The pattern is mesmerising and it evokes powerful mental associations. But this is not art, it is mathematics! Puzzled? Well, let’s take you to ...