When will I find true love? Will I get the job? Will things get better in the new year? From the I Ching and palm reading to tarot and astrology, humans have long used all kinds of tools to predict ...

Source: Heinrich Stürzl / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons We can define divination as using a systematic approach in order to try to gain insight into a situation or problem (Peek, 1991). In the ...

It’s easy for us to look around our world populated by iPhones, AI-driven data analysis, self-driving cars, and self-flying planes, and think that we, and our contemporary technology-rich culture, are ...

HONG KONG — Every day during his lunch break, Sean Cheng, a fortuneteller, pulls out his phone, logs onto Instagram and checks his messages for new client appointments. He replies to comments from ...

Climate science is the exploration of uncertainty. It starts with a question—a portal into a broader investigation, a way to make sense of disquieting realities and incomprehensible futures—that ...

The Harry Potter series has woven an overt web across the world, creating a new generation of readers who have soaked up each successive tome with a surprising enthusiasm never before seen in the ...

We live in an age of science and technology so, strictly speaking, science should be able to forecast the future and help us make decisions better. But, in this age of uncertainty, the best economic ...

The idea of the butterfly effect can be fascinating. How much of a difference can one decision make? Divination is a game that attempts to explore that. It very briefly tasks someone with acting as a ...