365 HOWLS #28: GLEICK

365 Howls #28: GLEICK 5-10-2013 bret harold hart gear: Telecaster[FROM THE PROLOGUE OF James Gleick's great book, CHAOS: MAKING A NEW SCIENCE "Now that science is looking, chaos seems to be everywhere. A rising column of cigarette smoke breaks into wild swirls. A flag snaps back and forth in the wind. A dripping faucet goes from a steady pattern to a random one. Chaos appears in the behavior of the weather, the behavior of an airplane in flight, the behavior of cars clustering on an expressway, the behavior of oil flowing in underground pipes. No matter what the medium, the behavior obeys the same newly discovered laws. That realization has begun to change the way business executives make decisions about insurance, the way astronomers look at the solar system, the way political theorists talk about the stresses leading to armed conflict."http://www.around.com/chaos.html