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Is anything truly random?

CrowdScience by BBC

Jul 24, 202627:09Science & Medicine

We’re delving into the CrowdScience archive to give you another chance to hear an award-winning show from 2025. CrowdScience listener Dorit has a problem. She wants the tiles in her new bathroom to be arranged randomly b...

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