In the 1993 blockbuster film Jurassic Park, Jeff Goldblum’s character, Dr. Ian Malcolm, explains chaos theory—commonly known as the butterfly effect—the concept that even the smallest events, like a ...

Theory has it that the flapping of a butterfly’s minuscule wings can cause a typhoon halfway around the world. Indeed, the war in West Asia and the choke-up of the Hormuz Strait is driving the private ...