Systems
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The Asymmetry of Life
September 08, 2009
Look into a mirror and you’ll simultaneously see the familiar and the alien: an image of you, but with left and right reversed.
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Portfolio: Flight Patterns
September 07, 2009
Richard Barnes's photographs of birds’ flight patterns above a Rome suburb highlight the tension between the individual and the collective.
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Serious Fun
June 23, 2009
Kodu doesn’t have realistic graphics, huge explosions, or even a way to win. But it just might change the way we think about the world.
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Critical Mass
June 22, 2009
For particle physicists who study phase transitions, a traffic jam is simply a solid made up of idling cars.
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What Seashells Tell
May 08, 2009
The growth and pigment of a seashell is controlled by a network of nerve cells. Modeling this process is giving us insight into neural networks and even human memory.
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The Tricorder Arrives
May 01, 2009
Cell phones will soon be able to sense our environment and its pollutants. This new power may change the way we move through the world, but can it motivate us to change it?
data, information, innovation, networks, systems, technology
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This Is Your Brain on Facebook
April 21, 2009
Recent studies on the effects of the internet and other new media on brain plasticity raises an open research question: Is Google making us smarter?
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The Hive Mind
April 14, 2009
Is understanding the selfless behavior of ants, bees, and wasps the key to a new evolutionary synthesis?
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The Body Politic
April 14, 2009
The deep symbiosis between bacteria and their human hosts is forcing scientists to ask: Are we organisms or living ecosystems?
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Adapting to a New Economy
February 12, 2009
An evolutionary perspective on economics can explain how we got into this current mess, and how we might find our way out.
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Seed Salon: Networks, Society, and the Evolution of Cooperation
February 04, 2009
Albert-László Barabási + James Fowler: The physicist and the political scientist discuss contagion and the Obama campaign, debate the natural selection of robustness and ask whether society is turning inward.
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The Prophetic Brain
January 27, 2009
The commonly held belief that information from the outside world impinges upon our brains through our senses to cause perception and then action now appears to be false.
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Group Think
December 22, 2008
A Tel Aviv University professor melds math and sociology of the Internet to predict the next big thing in music.
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Yeast Gone Wild
December 18, 2008
Feral yeast shed light on one of Darwin's greatest evolutionary puzzles, by getting drunk and socializing.
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The Mason’s Apprentice
October 24, 2008
Our closest single-celled relatives reveal the origins of the stuff that holds us together.
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Bacterial Foresight
October 09, 2008
Can bacteria anticipate changes in their environment?
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The Trouble with Biodiversity
October 07, 2008
Life is more varied near the equator. But making sense of that has confounded biologists for 200 years.
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Suspending Life
April 14, 2008
If almost every species on Earth was killed some 250 million years ago, how did our ancient ancestors survive and evolve into us?
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Innovation
Let There Be Light
Astronomers will soon find scores of Earth-sized exoplanets, but imaging them may be decades away. That is, unless NASA decides to build a starshade.
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Ideas
Into the Uncanny Valley
New findings shed light on a century’s worth of bizarre explanations for the eerie feeling we get around lifelike robots.
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World
Signs from Above
The release of an apocalyptic movie prompts NASA to debunk planetary rumors, fowl play shuts down the LHC, and the Catholic Church discusses alien life.
