Word: predictabilities
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...designed for the Color Pixter electronic sketchpad. The brainchild of M.I.T. professor Tod Machover, Symphony Painter ($20; fisher-price.com Color Pixter sold separately) combines visual arts and music: you draw a picture and then press the triangular play button to hear a musical interpretation of your artwork. Experienced musicians might predict some outcomes: lines curving up tend to produce increasingly higher pitches, and parallel lines generate harmonies. Different colors represent different instruments' melodic riffs or percussion beats, and the stylus can change tempo...
...Pairwise Rankings, compiled by USCHO.com in an attempt to predict the teams that will be selected by the NCAA committee, have been right in prognosticating the four-team field for every tournament since the inaugural system was introduced...
...friend, protector and boss to a group of orphaned children who collect mines to sell back to U.S. forces. But then three new children join them, fleeing from the Iraqi troops who killed their parents and torched their home: Henkov (Hirsh Feyssal), a boy with no arms who can predict the future; his suicidal sister Agrin (Avaz Latif); and a blind baby who is either their brother or Agrin's son. Satellite falls for Agrin, but she can't return his affections. Cold, broken and without hope, she is an ever-present reminder of the brutalities...
...superfluous data and seizing on essential truth, we learn, but too much time or information can confuse and blind it. And the unconscious mind can be trained. The psychologist John Gottman can watch a 15-minute videotape of a husband and wife about whom he knows nothing and predict with 90% accuracy whether they will still be married in 15 years. Gladwell, with his infernal gift for coining buzzwords, calls the rapid analysis performed by the unconscious mind "thin slicing...
...seemingly trivial tweaks to the system--hence the old romantic notion that a flap of a butterfly's wings in the rain forest of Brazil might give rise to a storm off the coast of Iceland. Perhaps, thought Hoffman, chaos and sensitivity, which make weather so difficult to predict, could be harnessed to purposely change...