As writer Ryan Frazer would have it "humans are bad at understanding probability". This clear, quite concise statement marks the start of a steep descent into the curly rabbit hole that is the theory of probability – involving baleful texas gunslingers, shady betting arrangements, and the laden mathemagics of unearthly miracles. At some point I popped out the other end of said rabbit hole with some timely illustrations of white-tooth Price Is Right star Larry Emdur. Go figure.

The article is well worth a read and can be found over in Issue 2 of Future Perfect Magazine.