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More Is Different: Nature’s Unruly Complexity
According to reductionism, every system, no matter how complex, can be understood in terms of the behavior of its...
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Economic Cosmology and the Evolutionary Challenge
Our paper discusses three very old “cosmologies” in Western thought, how these play out in economic theory, and how...
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The Scrotum Is Nuts
Soccer fans call it brave goalkeeping, the act of springing into a star shape in front of an attacker...
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Signs of a Stranger, Deeper Side to Nature’s Building Blocks
According to modern quantum theory, energy fields permeate the universe, and flurries of energy in these fields, called “particles”...
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Technological Mandalas
Artist’s Statement I am interested in how systems can be applied in the process of making art, how something...
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How Wonder Works
When I was growing up in New York City, a high point of my calendar was the annual arrival...
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From the Mouths of Babes and Birds
Babies learn to speak months after they begin to understand language. As they are learning to talk, they babble,...
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Portrait of the Artist as a Caveman
In a letter to the botanist Asa Gray written in 1860, a year after the publication of On the...
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The Man Who Knew Moses But Not His Own Son
“Nissim”, a 64 year old man, knows that the word for the eldest son in a family is the...