Tag Archives: complex systems

Kathryn Schulz: On Being Wrong [ TED 2011 ]

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How Simple Rules Determine Pedestrian Behavior and Crowd Disasters [From PNAS]

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What Defines a Meme? [via Smithsonian Magazine]

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David Christian: Big History [ TED 2011 ]

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Law as a Complex System: Updated Reading List – April 2011

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Transportation in Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems Approach [Via MIT World]

From the abstract: “In the nineteen fifties and sixties, students of transportation focused on building infrastructure and applied lessons from the physical sciences to designing mobility. Mobility was facilely linked to the engines of economic growth and expanding GDP. In … Continue reading

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Complex Systems: A Survey

From the abstract: “A complex system is a system composed of many interacting parts, often called agents, which displays collective behavior that does not follow trivially from the behaviors of the individual parts. Examples include condensed matter systems, ecosystems, stock … Continue reading

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Nassim Taleb “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms” [ from Charlie Rose]

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Robert Trivers: Mathematical Approaches to Problems in Evolutionary Social Theory

Trivers is always very enlightening. Also, check out Part 2 and Part 3 … [HT to Fabio Rojas at OrgTheoryBlog]

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Modeling the Financial Crisis [ From Nature ]

This week’s issue of Nature offers two brief but meaningful articles on the financial crisis. Here are the abstracts: Financial Systems: Ecology and Economics (By Neil Johnson & Thomas Lux): “In the run-up to the recent financial crisis, an increasingly … Continue reading

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Eric Berlow: How Complexity Leads to Simplicity [TED 2010]

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