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The real scientific reasons why everything always goes wrong
Start looking for Murphy's Law, and you'll find it everywhere. Buses go round in threes, the queue you join always goes slowest, when your hands are full your nose starts to itch, you think of several important things to remember just as you are falling asleep...
Can there ever be a rational explanation?
The answers turn out to be one part scientific fact to three parts psychology. The world has changed a lot in the last four thousand years, but our brains haven't. So, again and again, we find our reactions are just plain out of date.
Why do you take the same wrong turning time after time?
Why is the tuneyou hate most the one that you can't get out of your head?
Why, when you lose something, do you keep looking in the same place over and over?
And why is it suddenly there the fourth or fifth time you look?
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Richard Robinson is the author of 10 books of popular science including the Science Magic series (Oxford University Press) which was shortlisted for the Aventis Science Prize. He works full-time as a science presenter, and is regularly invited to perform demonstrations around the world at science festivals, universities and schools. He has performed at festivals ranging from the Edinburgh Science Festival to the Korean Science Festival, and lectured at universities ranging from the UK to the Ukraine. He holds a BSc in psychology. Illustrator Kate Charlesworth has drawn regularly for New Scientist and has illustrated a wide variety of publications including The Cartoon History of Time.
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