Cika wannan magana: Littafin ya haɗu da nazarin nazarin shari'ar tare da taƙaitattun bincike na kimiyyar zamantakewa, da yin amfani da nazarin ilimi, rahotannin haɗari, da kuma tambayoyin asali. Nazarin shari'ar sun haɗa da, alal misali, kamfen ɗin kafofin watsa labarun da bai yi nasara ba a Starbucks, abincin dare na Godiya ya ɓace,
Hadarin nukiliya na Three Mile Island, rikicin ruwa na Flint, Nasdaq's ba shi da kyau wajen gudanar 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 haɗarin jirgin kasa na Washington Metro a watan Yunin 2009. 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.