Stephen dubner and angela duckworth answer a question about why we are so fascinated by coincidences. Stephen: What is it about our psychology that makes us so fascinated with these seemingly meaningless occurrences? Angela: I am very interested in them, but i had never thought about how universal that is. Why do you think people aren't noticing the same coinces happening synchronously at the same time? Stephen: There's no way of knowing whether or not something like this will happen to your family one day.
Why are humans so fascinated by coincidences? What do Carl Jung and an album by The Police have in common? And what did Stephen win in a bar mitzvah limbo contest?