Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Littafin ya haɗu da nazarin nazarin shari'ar tare da taƙaitaccen bincike na kimiyyar zamantakewa, ta hanyar yin amfani da nazarin ilimi, rahotannin haɗari, da kuma tambayoyin asali. Nazarin shari'ar sun hada da, alal misali, kamfen din kafofin watsa labarun da ya gaza a Starbucks, abincin dare na Godiya ya tafi ba daidai ba, hatsarin nukiliya na Three Mile Island
, rikicin ruwa na Flint, Nasdaq's ba daidai ba ne game da IPO na Facebook, haɗarin jirgin sama na sararin samaniya "Challenger" da "Columbia", hadarin kasuwancin lantarki na Knight Capital, hadarin jirgin ValuJet 592 da Air France 447, da kuma Yuni 2009 Washington Metro jirgin kasa karo. Binciken ilimin kimiyya da aka rufe a cikin littafin ya fito ne daga ilimin zamantakewa, ilimin halayyar mutum, ilimin tattalin arziki na hali, ka'idar ƙungiya, da kuma ilimin kwakwalwa, gami da nazarin Charles Perrow, Diane Vaughan, Karl Weick, Amy Edmondson, Dacher Keltner, Gary Klein, Gregory Berns, Daniel Kahneman, da Georg Simmel, da sauransu.