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Strange Universe: Coincidence 6/11/23

It’s often hard to separate coincidence from correspondence, like the 11-year sunspot cycle. Powerful solar storms must affect us, but there are thousands of potential rhythms from political events to earthquakes we could try to match up with it. It's challenging to know which are related and which are merely the mischief caused by the law of averages.

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