Is anything truly random?
Published: July 24, 2026
Duration: 27:09
We’re delving into the CrowdScience archive to give you another chance to hear an award-winning show from 2025.
CrowdScience listener Dorit has a problem. She wants the tiles in her new bathroom to be arranged randomly but, no matter what she does, it still looks like they form some kind of pattern.
This has got Dorit thinking about randomness – what is it, how do you create it, why do we find it so hard to recognise, and is anything really random at all? And if nothing is truly random, does it mean that everything is theo...