Two people can look at the exact same run of bad luck and walk away with completely different conclusions. One decides the world is chaotic and nothing can be predicted. The other starts looking for the pattern hiding underneath the noise. Abraham de Moivre, the French mathematician who spent much of his career pricing gambling…

Image: Society for Science Organic gardening is described as the natural, wholesome choice, yet an eighth grader from Ripon, California, has shown that animal-based fertiliser can carry a hidden microbial problem. Virinchi R. Madireddy tested cow, chicken, fish and bat manure for bacteria that survive an antibiotic, and cow manure turned out to hold the…