Children's Adaptation to Chaos and Order

Chaos Theory is a mathematical toolkit that allows us to extract ordered structures from chaos. The theory can reveal the intricate workings of such diverse natural systems as the beating of the human heart and the trajectories of asteroids.

At the center of Chaos Theory is the fas...

There is, at a very deep level, a growing dissatisfaction with the centralized status quo. But for most people, the solution is far from clear. In the popular imagination, central government is associated with order; the state and the society are understood to rise and fall together....

There’s a big part of us that doesn’t like chaos: we want order and simplicity.

• When we feel overwhelmed, we might beat ourselves up and try to look for a system to get things under control.
• When plans don’t go how we hoped they would