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To understand risk, use your imagination

By Nicolas Bouleau

22 June 2011

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Le Corbusier’s architecture used randomness

(Image: Patrice Josserand/Corbis)

Random and meaningless? See the next image to find out – but be warned, you'll never see this one in the same way again

Random and meaningless? See the next image to find out – but be warned, you’ll never see this one in the same way again

Once you've seen this, there's no way back

Once you’ve seen this, there’s no way back

Whether it’s a shape, a structure or a work of art, once you see a meaning in something, there’s no going back. The reasons why run deep

THE concept of chance as we understand it today emerged long after the birth of philosophy. The ancient Greeks distinguished between events which were inevitable and those which were seen as the will of…

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