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People are Biased Against Creative Ideas, Studies Find [via Cornell Chronicle Online]

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Tim Harford: Trial, Error and the God Complex [ Ted 2011 ]

Economics writer Tim Harford studies complex systems — and finds a surprising link among the successful ones: they were built through trial and error. In this sparkling talk from TEDGlobal 2011, he asks us to embrace our randomness and start … Continue reading

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Computing for Everyone [via MIT World]

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Law, Institutions and Human Behavior – Gruter Institute Squaw Valley Conference

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Are Scientific Reputations Boosted Artificially? [NatureNews]

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Kathryn Schulz: On Being Wrong [ TED 2011 ]

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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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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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Steven Johnson: Where Good Ideas Come From [Ted 2010]

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An Easy Way to Boost a Paper’s Citations [Via Nature News]

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Scott Page on Leveraging Diversity

Diversity is one the major topics of interest here at Michigan Center for the Study of Complex Systems.  This includes diversity as experienced in physical as well as in social systems. On this topic, here is a lecture that one of … Continue reading

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