While driving home last night, I heard the best story on RadioLab (and learned a new word: stochasticity).
A 10-year old English girl named Laura Buxton released a balloon into the sky with the note: "Please send back to Laura Buxton". It flew south over England and landed in the yard of another 10-year old girl, whose name also happened to be Laura Buxton! When they met, they were identical in height, hair color, and both wore a similar pink jumpers and jeans. Not to mention, they each brought their pet guinea pig. Now they are best friends.
Do you believe it was purely chance that brought these two together?
{Image by: Katie Oak Flickr}
