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Facebook has become more than just a central component of online life; its a fixture of modern culture. Facebook is the world’s second most frequented website, with nearly 1.19 billion monthly active users, nearly 80% of which come from outside the US and Canada. In the US, 71% of online adults use Facebook, 63% of whom… 
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The New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) is an independent educational and research institution dedicated to advancing the study of complex systems.
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Liz Rykert's insight:
Great to hear Lorenz
Eli Levine's curator insight,
March 31, 2014 3:08 PM
I <3 Science.
The lessons that are discussed here are applicable to our social sciences and questions of governance, especially the non-linear nature of society, economy and social psychology and the importance of initial conditions.
It's not a stable universe.
And we're living and apart of the instability!
Think about it. 
Vasileios Basios's curator insight,
April 1, 2014 9:43 AM
Wow! such a rare delightful material .... Ralph Abraham and Lorenz who could imagine! 
Luciano Lampi's curator insight,
April 16, 2014 8:31 AM
to be watched by the new generations! old certitudes and new doubts?
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The Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) – a Brazilian think-tank linked to the government – is making a request for proposals for eight IDB consultants to contribute with chapters to a seminal book on Complex Systems applied to Public Policies. On one hand, the project aims at pushing forward the modeling frontier, its methodologies and applications for the case of Brazil. On the other hand, the project pursues actual improvement on the understanding of public policies’ mechanisms and effects, through complex systems’ tools and concepts. http://www.ipea.gov.br/portal/index.php/?option=com_content&view=article&id=21745&Itemid=5 Via Complexity Digest
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Signals and Boundaries: Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems [John H. Holland] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Complex adaptive systems (cas), including ecosystems, governments, biological cells, and markets, are characterized by intricate hierarchical arrangements of boundaries and signals. In ecosystems
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Revision of Previous Show on SNA and Introduction to Tools The Language of Networks Introduction to Social Network Analysis/ Cases Tools for Analyzing social... Via june holley
Liz Rykert's insight:
Thanks for this one June!
june holley's curator insight,
March 5, 2014 11:20 AM
Lots in here about social network mapping and analysis.
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"In nature, there are communities of organisms that interact with each other and the nonliving parts of their environment. That’s what an ecosystem is. Living organisms include plants, animals, bacteria, fungi, and more. We humans are part of the ecosystems we live in, but we don’t always contribute as much to the community as we could. Let’s look at ways some businesses have learned to start behaving more like cooperative members of nature. This story is about beer but can be applied to any business because it’s about how emulating an ecosystem can lead to less waste while supporting various industries." Via Miguel Prazeres
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The present work is meant as a reference to provide an organic and comprehensive view of the most relevant results in the exciting new field of Networks of Networks (NetoNets). Seminal papers have recently been published posing the basis to study what happens when different networks interact, thus providing evidence for the emergence of new, unexpected behaviors and vulnerabilities. From those seminal works, the awareness on the importance understanding Networks of Networks (NetoNets) has spread to the entire community of Complexity Science. The reader will benefit from the experience of some of the most well-recognized leaders in this field. The contents have been aggregated under four headings; General Theory, Phenomenology, Applications and Risk Assessment. The reader will be impressed by the different applications of the general paradigm that span from physiology, to financial risk, to transports. We are currently making the first steps to reduce the distance between the language and the way of thinking of the two communities of experts in real infrastructures and the complexity scientists. Although this path may prove to be long, it is extremely promising, both in extending our understanding of complex systems and in finding concrete applications that can enhance the life quality of millions of people.
Via Complexity Digest
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Far-sighted cities around the world are adopting an improved process for ensuring that all residents benefit from infrastructure investments.
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City building and sustainable healthy cities requires big thinking on lots of fronts. The Toronto Star has been running a series on Big Ideas for the City of Toronto. This one one deals negotiating community benefits for things like big infrastructure projects. Brilliant.
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Particle Fever follows the inside story of six brilliant scientists seeking to unravel the mysteries of the universe, documenting the successes and setbacks in the planet’s most significant and inspiring scientific breakthrough.
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Social enterprises face many challenges to scaling, and preparing them with the appropriate team, culture, and systems is a critical first step in the process. Part one of a three-part series.
Liz Rykert's insight:
Nice piece on the first stage of scaling innovation. Worth the read.
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Visit http://sustainableman.org/ to explore the world of sustainability. For more from George Monbiot, visit http://www.monbiot.com/ and for more on "rewildi...
Liz Rykert's insight:
Great Video on the idea of cascading Trophic Cycles, in this case on the rejuvenation of Yellowstone National Park through the introduction of wolves. I had a chance to visit Yellowstone with the Plexus Institute just after the wolves had been introduced in 2002 or 2003. It is amazing to see how this one change has had such a powerful and extensive impact.
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Behavioural design has the potential to bridge the gap between research and practice to revolutionise how we tackle social issues.
Liz Rykert's insight:
Good short piece on the need to combine perspectives and approaches for collaboration to solve complex problems. Shares Design Councils Design Thinking Model. Thanks @paulinemeijer for the tweet: Are behavioural science and design the building blocks of innovation? - http://mf.tt/d1PGu Design Council - @edwardgardiner
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With his book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” Thomas Piketty has written a blockbuster in the world of economics.
Liz Rykert's insight:
Exciting new book by Thomas Picketty on Economic Inequality - the article form the NYTimes summarizes it well and includes some key steps for action. The essence is that economies and wages grow more slowly than the rates of return on investments and capital. Here is a quote from the article: "A higher than normal rate of population and economic growth helped reduce inequality, along with higher taxes on the wealthy. But the professional and political assumption of the 1950s and 1960s, that inequality would stabilize and diminish on its own, proved to be an illusion. We are now back to a traditional pattern of returns on capital of 4 percent to 5 percent a year and rates of economic growth of around 1.5 percent a year. So inequality has been quickly gathering pace, aided to some degree by the Reagan and Thatcher doctrines of tax cuts for the wealthy. “Trickle-down economics could have been true,” Mr. Piketty said simply. “It just happened to be wrong."
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US documentary about Hurricane Sandy and neighbourhood reconstruction shows councils should support creative projects Via june holley
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Thanks June for this great Scoop!
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The generality of network properties allows the utilization of the ‘wisdom’ of biological systems surviving crisis events for many millions of years. Yeast protein-protein interaction network shows a decrease in community-overlap (an increase in community cohesion) in stress. Community rearrangement seems to be a cost-efficient, general crisis-management response of complex systems. Inter-community bridges, such as the highly dynamic ‘creative nodes’ emerge as crucial determinants helping crisis survival. Crisis Responses and Crisis Management: what can we learn from Biological Networks? Systema: connecting matter, life, culture and technology Vol 2, No 1 (2014) http://www.systema-journal.org/article/view/115 Via Complexity Digest
Liz Rykert's insight:
Love the insights generated by looking at existing systems and how one could apply or learn from how they function in a different context - rich with insight and ideas.
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This is one of a series of short nicely produced videos on complexity concepts. This one deals with the shift from certainty to uncertainty - from Newtons laws to a more ambiguous emergent understanding of the world.
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Snippets of information, often hidden in social-media streams, offer companies a valuable new tool for staying ahead. A McKinsey Quarterly article.
Liz Rykert's insight:
Has a strong corporate focus - listening for opportunities in the marketplace - but for me the idea of finding ways to listen for the weak signals relates to leveraging the weak ties in networks. It is looking for the opportunities that may be right in front of you, either as content or as a potential connection or collaboration. How you tune-in to the these gems and act on them is key.
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From an arthropod to a virus, here are 10 of the most impressive bioinspired developments from the past year.
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“Acquisition of an Abandoned 2 story property for reuse as a Library, Slide Archive and Soul Food Kitchen 20092 year design-build projectDorchester Projects encompasses a cluster of formerly aban”
Via june holley
Liz Rykert's insight:
Thanks June Holley for this find! Amazing story of renewal in Chicago. Overlaps everywhere.
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Part 3 is a 5 part series - all worth looking at - how learning is being changed by the social web is the focus if this post.
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Read about how network society, the interactions between technology and people, has brought people together to create major social movements. Via Cathryn Wellner, Patricia Thompson
Liz Rykert's insight:
Thanks Pat Thompson for finding this gem. Interesting to see integration of movements and networks.
Leadership Learning Community's curator insight,
February 23, 2014 6:17 PM
I just got a copy and will summarize soon.
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Change It Wall or Everchanging Wallnado Concept is designed by Amirko aka Amirkhan Abdurakhmanov & this wall is based on turning triangles with different colors.
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Can you imagine having one of these in your office - the patterns would be endless!
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Fritjof Capra, in his book ‘The Hidden Connections’ applies aspects of complexity theory, particularly the analysis of networks, to global capitalism and the state of the world; and eloquently argues the case that social systems such as organisations and networks are not just like living systems – they are living systems. The concept and theory of living systems (technically known as autopoiesis) was introduced in 1972 by Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela.
This is a complete version of a ‘long-blog’ written by Al Kennedy on behalf of ‘The Nature of Business’ blog and BCI: Biomimicry for Creative Innovation http://thenatureofbusiness.org/2012/08/15/superorganisations-learning-from-natures-networks/
-▶ MIMICKING NATURE: ORGANIZE LIKE ANTS TO MOVE MOUNTAINS http://sco.lt/5DcYXh
-▶ NATURE HAS THE ANSWERS. WE ARE SURROUNDED BY GENIUS - WHOLE SYSTEMS DESIGN BY NATURE http://sco.lt/7maN5V
Conservation - University of Washington ▶ DESIGN GENIUS - NATURE'S MOST ELEGANT DESIGNS MAY HOLD THE KEY TO UPER-EFFICIENT, ECOFRIENDLY TECHNOLOGY http://www.conservationmagazine.org/2011/09/design-genius/
June 17, 2013 Global Possibilities ▶ BEST OF BIOMIMICRY http://www.globalpossibilities.org/best-of-biomimicry/
Smithsonian Magazine
▶ THE EVOLUTION OF BUSINESS: HOW A NEW BUSINESS ERA INSPIRED BY NATURE, NOT GREED, CAN BENEFIT US ALL http://sco.lt/97vmc5
The Nature of Business, November 26, 2013
-▶ A GREEN COMMON-BASED GOVERNANCE: THE RIGHT TO A CLEAN AND HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL SPECIES A Green, Commons-Based Governance: The Right to a Clean and Healthy Environment for all species http://sco.lt/8qokwj Via ddrrnt, Spaceweaver, David Hodgson, pdjmoo, Kevin Jones, june holley
ASPEL Editor's curator insight,
January 4, 2014 11:36 AM
Fritjof Capra, in his book ‘The Hidden Connections’ applies aspects of complexity theory, particularly the analysis of networks, to global capitalism and the state of the world; and eloquently argues the case that social systems such as organisations and networks are not just like living systems, they are living systems. This parallel relationship between nature and technical complex systems Kelly describes as “vivi-systems” and he proposes that the “world of the made will soon be like the world of the born: autonomous, adaptable, and creative but, consequently out of our control. ” The hyper connection and web of life we can now experience through the use of digital tools and platforms will allow us to circumnavigate the old paradigm and develop for the collective greater good. So how can we look to nature and use Biomimicry to help us optimise our groups and organisational communications to create real value in our social networks, to build or shape networked businesses that are built for resilience? 
Decision Intelligence's curator insight,
January 4, 2014 11:29 PM
A great resource in the Decision Intelligence for Sustainability space. 
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December 6, 2014 11:04 PM
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