Boltzmann in the Funny Pages

Explore how random fluctuations influence creativity, as seen in Calvin and Hobbes and the Dilbert comic. Discover the insights today!

His Brains, anyway. (Which he never talked about himself, but that's neither here nor there.) Random fluctuations make an appearance in Dilbert. (Hat tip Nick Suntzeff.)

One can only wonder what Calvin and Hobbes could have done with this.

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