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A Tale of Two Butterflies

In his book “Isaac’s Storm about the deadly Galveston hurricane of 1900, Erik Larson quotes the author Ernest Zebrowski, Jr. writing about chaos theory and the butterfly effect in the context of the unpredictability of the development of tropical storms.

“Could a butterfly in the West African rainforest, by flitting to the left of

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