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How Poverty Taxes the Brain

Human mental bandwidth is finite. You’ve probably experienced this before (though maybe not in those terms): When you’re lost in concentration trying to solve a problem like a broken computer, you’re...

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Think uncertainty is a bad thing? It’s actually a mark of sound science

Scientists are challenging the idea that uncertainty in research is a reason for people to worry about the reliability of findings. Researchers use uncertainty to express how confident they are in...

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The Surprising Origins of Life’s Complexity

Conventional wisdom holds that complex structures evolve from simpler ones, step-by-step, through a gradual evolutionary process, with Darwinian selection favoring intermediate forms along the way.But...

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Economics 2.0: The Natural Step towards a Self-Regulating, Participatory...

Despite all our great advances in science, technology and financial innovations, many societies today are struggling with a financial, economic and public spending crisis, over-regulation, and mass...

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Recording and replaying human touch: The next user-interface revolution?

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego report a breakthrough in technology that could pave the way for digital systems to record, store, edit and replay information in a dimension that...

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This Mind-Reading Headset Gives Users The Power of Mind Control

Five years ago, Vietnamese-Australian inventor and Emotiv CEO Tan Le released the Emotiv EPOC neuroheadset, what was billed as the world’s first commercial brain-computer interface. The product, which...

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Management Is (Still) Not Leadership - John Kotter - Harvard ...

Business bloggers at Harvard Business Review discuss a variety of business topics including managing people, innovation, leadership, and more.See it on Scoop.it, via operationalizing complexity

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Towers Watson: complexity coming straight at you

To be a long-term investor requires thematic investing because markets and economies are complex adaptive systems, according to Tim Hodgson, global head of the thinking-ahead group at Towers Watson....

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War, space, and the evolution of Old World complex societies

How did human societies evolve from small groups, integrated by face-to-face cooperation, to huge anonymous societies of today? Why is there so much variation in the ability of different human...

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Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect (by Matthew D. Lieberman)

In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic,...

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Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (by Sendhil Mullainathan and...

A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity—and our flawed responses to it—shapes our lives, our society, and our cultureWhy do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why...

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Modelling Complexity for Policy: Opportunities and Challenges

This chapter reviews the purpose and use of models from the field of complex systems and, in particular, the implications of trying to use models to understand or make decisions within complex...

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Can science stop government shutdowns?

Government is not traditionally the domain of natural science. But a growing body of researchers think it should be. In their view, rather than being one damned thing after another, human history is...

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What Are the New Implications of Chaos for Unpredictability?

From the beginning of chaos research until today, the unpredictability of chaos has been a central theme. It is widely believed and claimed by philosophers, mathematicians and physicists alike that...

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We make our technologies and then they make us

We develop an idea, apply it, and the idea then changes us. This is generic to the human condition, but we only recognise its significance during periods of very rapid change when we have amassed...

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The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2013

There is no way to predict the price of stocks and bonds over the next few days or weeks. But it is quite possible to foresee the broad course of these prices over longer periods, such as the next...

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Constructed Complexities

Complexity theory and social constructionism are two important meta-theories that have evolved from very different worldviews and knowledge bases. Yet, there are some important similarities between the...

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“Wrong, but Useful”: Negotiating Uncertainty in Infectious Disease Modelling

For infectious disease dynamical models to inform policy for containment of infectious diseases the models must be able to predict; however, it is well recognised that such prediction will never be...

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The Network City

“Only connect,” the writer E. M. Forster said famously — and modern scientists working with network structures are learning how right he was. Forster was talking about how to tell a good story, but it...

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Things

Assuming one could momentarily step aside from the current pandemonium generated by big data, social networks, and smart phones; there is an obvious question that comes to one's mind: what will be the...

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