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Ingenious: David Krakauer
The systems theorist explains what’s wrong with standard models of intelligence.
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Why Our Genome and Technology Are Both Riddled With “Crawling Horrors”
When we build complex technologies, despite our best efforts and our desire for clean logic, they often end up being far messier than we intend. They often end up kluges: inelegant solutions that work just well enough...
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The Skyscraper of the Future
The push to build a new kind of tower has begun.
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If the World Began Again, Would Life as We Know It Exist?
Experiments in evolution are exploring what would happen if we rewound the tape of life. (2014)
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The Archdruid Report: The Delusion of Control
I'm sure most of my readers have heard at least a little of the hullabaloo surrounding the release of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si...
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Why we need Arnold Toynbee’s good life
As the dreams of Silicon Valley fill our world, could the dowdy historian Arnold Toynbee help prevent a nightmare? By Ian Beacock.
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The Evolution of Alternative Medicine
When it comes to treating pain and chronic disease, many doctors are turning to treatments like acupuncture and meditation—but using them as part of a larger, integrative approach to health.
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Stanford scholar debunks long-held beliefs about economic growth in ancient Greece
Using a pioneering digitization project that maps out details of life in the ancient world, classics Professor Josiah Ober links the democratic politics and surprisingly robust economy of classical Greek society.
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Researcher devises method to untangle, analyze ‘controlled chaos’
A researcher at Indiana University has developed a new mathematical [graph theoretic] framework to more effectively analyze.
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Death by Design? Spatial models show that natural selection favors genetically-limited lifespan as a lineal benefit
Standard evolutionary theories of aging and mortality, being based on mean-field assumptions – which analyze the behavior of large and complex stochastic models by studying a simpler model – conclude that programmed mortality resulting from natural selection is impossible. Recently, however...
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Time’s Taboos: Dirty Thoughts on Systems, Syntropy, and Psi
Classical physics, with its totally determinative, forward-in-time, billiard-ball causation, requires sweeping anomalies like psi under the rug, not to mention resigning ourselves to an absence of higher meaning and direction in the universe. Even the local islands of order allowed within the framework of dynamical systems theory... By Eric Wargo.
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The Noömass Hypothesis: Is Dark Matter Made of Knowledge? @ The Nightshirt
Could the dark matter in the universe be a giant data center?
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Slime-mould economics
Orthodox economics is broken. Applying what we know about evolution, ecology and collective behaviour might help us avoid another catastrophe. By Kate Douglas
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Can Sound Explain a 350-Year-Old Clock Mystery?
Lab experiments suggest that a strange synchronization of pendulum clocks observed in the 1600s can be chalked up to acoustic energy. By Jesse Emspak.
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The Archdruid Report: The Cimmerian Hypothesis, Part Three
The End of the Dream.
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Ten scary hacks I saw at Black Hat and DEF CON
While cyber security is increasingly important, researchers show how little of it we actually have. By Lucian Constantin.
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Escaping the tragedy of the commons through targeted punishment
Failures of cooperation cause many of society's gravest problems. It is well known that cooperation among many players faced with a social dilemma can be maintained thanks to the possibility of punishment, but achieving the initial state of widespread cooperation is often much more difficult. We show here that there exist strategies of ‘targeted punishment’ whereby a small number of punishers can shift a population of defectors into a state of global cooperation. By Samuel Johnson.
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What explains the glory that was Greece? Actually, sound economic policy
Where and how did the ancient Greeks gain the wealth with which to build a culture that became central to the modern world? By Josiah Ober.
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Crops farmed by leafcutter ants show signs of domestication
Fungus-farming ants seem to have selected for genome duplications in their crop, just like human farmers, allowing them to expand the size of their colonies. By Claire Asher.
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Devoted to Terror: How the Camps Were Run
Thomas Laqueur reviews “KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps” by Nikolaus Wachsmann.
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