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Guerin - I'll see your Strogatz and raise you a Smolin! http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/lee_smolin_on_science_and_democracy.htmlThis talk by Lee Smolin while at TED addresses obliquely a lot of the talk about science, politics and religion (or at least world view). - Steve Nice video of Steven Strogatz and Carlo Ratti discussing complexity and urban design:http://salon.seedmagazine.com/salon_strogatz_ratti.html Strogatz mathematically describes how natural and sociocultural complexity resolves into vast webs of order. Ratti uses technology as a tool to create interactive urban environments. In this video Salon, Strogatz and Ratti discuss whether building and analyzing human networks can help us overcome our poor mathematical understanding of complexity. -S |
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