The Hubble Space Telescope has released one final set of images for 2003. Studies of two distant galaxy clusters using a combination of the largest radio,...
Hello, I'm new and I was browsing over the messages section to find a link to avoid falling out of the deep blue sky and thought this perhaps the most...
... I think there is no well-defined number of rules or levels that distinguishes a complex from a simple system. Cellular Automata with similar rules can...
Hello, Thanks for the reply. I've been looking into complexity and chaordic systems for a while, mostly from the fringe of "popular science." So I'm no...
President Bush is so dumb that it hurts. Why should we send humans to the Moon or to the Mars ? We have been on the Moon, and it is not a friendly place. There...
I've updated my article about the emergence of complexity. With a new table of contents, a revised chapter about the evolutionary theories of cooperation...
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING - ICONIP 2004 Calcutta, India - November 23-25 SPECIAL SESSION ON ANT COLONY AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS ...
The CSRG Complex Systems Reading Group at the University of Michigan, organized by Christopher Paul Warren, is discussing this paper in their meeting on...
"Because almost every real system is inherently complicated, to say that a system is complex is almost an empty statement — couldn't an Institute for Complex...
Scaling Laws and Urban Systems Denise Pumain SFI Working Paper 04-02-002 http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/publications/Working-Papers/04-02-002.pdf Finite State...
Advertising, Replication and Reproduction Have you noticed that many religious, political, military and other groups (or the corresponding group-owners,...
Bill Bryson has written a very popular book about evolution and the emergence of complexity. He gives a summary what has happened from the time of the Big Bang...
Before it drowns in the NYTimes.com archives, here is Ed Regis' review of Bryson's book from May 18, 2003. ... Atoms the Size of Peas By Ed Regis A SHORT...
... The problem with economy's growth, as it stands, is that it is following a "growth imperative" which is exponential. Growth patterns of production and...
Hi, In regards to five star reviews... ... This fascinating article appears in todays New York Times. Thought you might find it of interest. February 14, 2004...
Take at look beyond the edge of time with Hubble. Astronomers today (09-Mar-2004) unveiled the deepest portrait of the visible Universe ever achieved by...
250 million years ago, long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the land and oceans teemed with life. This was the Permian, a golden era of biodiversity that...
Presenter (Graham Chapman): Good evening. CAPTION: "THRUST - A QUITE CONTROVERSIAL LOOK AT THE WORLD AROUND US" Presenter: I have with me tonight Anne Elk. Mrs...
Stephen Jay Gould has proposed with Niles Eldredge the theory of punctuated equilibrium (*) in evolution. The traditional or gradualistic view, represented by...
Richard Dawkins writes in the foreword to "The Theory of Evolution" from John Maynard Smith (Cambridge University Press, 1993): "You can live some sort of life...
From the publisher "Kassel University Press". I will post a link to the corresponding website as soon as it is published (which will be next month, maybe even...
Oops, the last posting got the wrong subject line. Here are the most interesting new SFI working papers: Networks, Fields, and Organizations: Micro-Dynamics,...