YouTube favorite Veritasium unpacks why “normal” stats often fail us in the real world, diving into power laws—those funky distributions where outliers rule the day. You’ll cruise from the classic St. Petersburg paradox through fractals and self-organized criticality, discovering why things like sandpiles, magnetism and forest fires refuse to play by bell-curve rules.
Along the way, Derek and crew show how tiny events can trigger massive earthquakes, why we light small fires to dodge megablazes, and even how power laws shape startups and social networks. By the end, you’ll be asking yourself: are you playing the Normal game, or have you switched to Power?
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