Life is a game of chance - the remarkable power of randomness | Florian Aigner | TEDxRWTHAachen

Life is a game of chance. We often like to believe that we are the masters of our fate, when quite frankly you never really know what’s going to happen. Most of the time, we have very little control over the hand we're dealt in life – so press play and enjoy the ride! Florian Aigner is a physicist and science journalist based in Vienna, Austria. With his unique ability to explain complicated things in a clear way, he uses a broad variety of media such as specialist journals, newspapers and texts for children, in his attempt to combat pseudo-science. In spite of an overall great popularity of so-called pseudo-sciences, they are often based on exoteric claims that cannot be upheld through scientific evidence. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx