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Why is the stock market so hard to predict? Confused by Everyone Else | p. 18 |
Why is it so hard to leave a burning building or an endangered city? Confused by Instincts | p. 47 |
How does a single bullet start a world war? Confused by Social Structure | p. 77 |
Why do the jobs that require the greatest skills often pay the least? Why do companies with the least to sell often earn the most? Confused by Payoffs | p. 113 |
Why do people, mice, and worlds die when they do? Confused by Scale | p. 137 |
Why do bad teams win so many games and good teams lose so many? Confused by Objective | p. 159 |
Why do we always worry about the wrong things? Confused by Fear | p. 189 |
Why is a baby the best linguist in any room? Confused by Silence | p. 210 |
Why are your cell phone and camera so absurdly complicated? Confused by Flexibility | p. 232 |
Why are only 10 percent of the world's medical resources used to treat 90 percent of its ills? Confused by False Targets | p. 255 |
Why does complexity science fall flat in the arts? Confused by Loveliness | p. 282 |
Epilogue | p. 303 |
Author's Notes | p. 309 |
Index | p. 313 |
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