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...
View ArticleThink 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleEconomics 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...
View ArticleRecording 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...
View ArticleThis 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...
View ArticleManagement 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
View ArticleTowers 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....
View ArticleWar, 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...
View ArticleSocial: 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,...
View ArticleScarcity: 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...
View ArticleModelling 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...
View ArticleCan 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleWe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleConstructed 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...
View Article“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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThings
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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