Is the 2004 Ashton Kutcher vehicle The Butterfly Effect a good movie? Definitely not, no—but try telling that to me at age thirteen. And then wrap your head, once more, around the fact that if you had ...

Reflecting on World Cancer Day got me thinking about butterflies, a symbol of hope, but, according to the “Butterfly Effect” theory, a small flap of their wings could have major impacts on the world, ...

What is the butterfly effect? Please can you give some examples of systems that exhibit it? Let’s start with a formal definition: The butterfly effect is a phenomenon associated with chaos theory in ...

Long before I began teaching full time, I was required in a graduate course to write a statement of my teaching philosophy. In my statement, I worked in a plethora of passionately idealistic ...

The butterfly effect is a concept first popularized in the 1960s by a mathematician and meteorologist named Edward Lorenz. It essentially holds that the mere fluttering of a butterfly's wing can lead ...

Sam Reid possesses the ability to go back in time and witness past events. As the man wrongfully accused of murdering his girlfriend faces the death penalty, Sam decides to go back attempt to solve ...