complexitystudies

Another important post from Overcoming Bias about why it is difficult to explain things to other people.
Overcoming Bias: Expecting Short Inferential Distances
Call it “inferential distance” if you like; I like to call it “building on concepts”. We all acquire concepts when we learn things, and at the end of your academic education things look [...]

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A post on Overcoming Bias about the attitude that “science doesn’t know anything about phenomenen X”.
While I don’t think the example of spacetime curvature as an explanation of gravity is well chosen (after all, this just raises a lot of further questions), the post is well worth the read.
Overcoming Bias: No One Knows What Science [...]

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TED | TEDBlog: The center of our minds: Vilayanur Ramachandran on TED.com

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Maths as it should be taught: a video intuitively explaining the turning of a sphere inside/out.
Beautiful.
Outside In

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Gisagents review Swarm, Mason and Repast. Plus: a load of references, most of them linked (to PDF files of the papers). Have fun.
GIS and Agent-Based Modelling: Open Source Simulation / Modelling Systems for ABM

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Have you also noticed that many people who propose to be individualists are actually following some stereotype? That “revolution” is more often than not institutionalized? Read on below. Be sure to watch the Monty Python video
Overcoming Bias: The “Outside the Box” Box

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Sentient Developments: Dancing uplifted monkeys

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