Captions : Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I’ve been lucky enough to visit twice. Rosecrans Baldwin

Captions : I think the most fundamental error we make is mistaking a noisy, anomalous event for the norm. This happens all the time – in the stock market, in reports of crime and natural disaster, etc. The fact is that big, noisy, anomalous events catch our attention because they’re anomalous, which isn’t a problem in and of itself. Stephen J. Dubner