Throughout Cloud Atlas, Mitchell heavily emphasizes the theme of humanity and its innate flaws, the inevitability of our eventual fall. Even with the greatest intentions in mind, we tend to encounter a fatal obstacle, stumbling despite our best...

It seems almost clichéd to note the distracted, disparate plurality of a certain contemporary consciousness that has developed alongside personal computers and the blogosphere, with its roots in television and cable. But it is just such an...

“Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?”

This was the question that Edward Lorenz asked at the 139th meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lorenz’s inquiry blossomed into a concept...