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How do human social, cultural, and economic systems interact with natural ecosystems? In a brief "Big Questions" video profile, SFI Professor Jennifer Dunne explores how these obvious but often neglected interdependencies can be studied through the mathematics of networks. 
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Networks guru and author Albert-László Barabási says diseases are the results of system breakdowns within the body, and mapping intracellular protein networks will help us discover cures.
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Bestselling journalist and author Jonah Lehrer shows how new research is deepening our understanding of the human imagination and considers how this new science can make us happier. Via FastTFriend
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A fascinating series of talks on Economic Complexity which took place at the Institute of New Economic Thinking Conference in Berlin earlier this year. Featuring talks from Doyne Farmer, J-P Bouchaud, Ricardo Hausmann and Mauro Gallegati.
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Google Tech Talk March 2, 2012 Presented by Professor Carsten Sørensen. My talk will report on research conducted within the mobility@lse research unit at the London School of Economics since 2000. It will present some of the main findings regarding the social and business impact of the mobile revolution, for example, the re-negotiation and daily endeavour to manage a boundary-less world by cultivating boundaries. The mobile revolution has significantly contributed to the erosion of long-established boundaries for inter-personal interaction, and as a result individuals will through their everyday life with the technology seek to resolve the resulting paradoxes. The technology that sets them free and allows for "anytime-anywhere" communication also enslaves them as they are always available.
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Empathy, cooperation, fairness and reciprocity -- caring about the well-being of others seems like a very human trait. But Frans de Waal shares some surprising videos of behavioral tests, on primates and other mammals, that show how many of these moral traits all of us share.
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When does a social group reach agreement by imitation processes? I will discuss how we answer this question by considering the voter model, a paradigmatic example of simple model of social behavior. Aspects to be addressed include the role of tie heterogeneity and non persistent ties in social networks, as well as the heterogeneity in the timing of interactions and the coexistence of imitation and rational behavior. I will also discuss the competition between self-organization and external messages or mass media in models of social consensus.
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FuturICT - Participatory Computing for Our Complex World http://www.multimedia.ethz.ch/conferences/2012/futurict Kirman, Alan; Hedström, Peter... Via Frédéric Amblard
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"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" asks Regina Dugan, then director of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In this breathtaking talk she describes some of the extraordinary projects -- a robotic hummingbird, a prosthetic arm controlled by thought, and, well, the internet -- that her agency has created by not worrying that they might fail. (Followed by a Q&A with TED's Chris Anderson)
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Yaneer Bar-Yam I will present a few perspectives on the current trends in education from the point of view of a complex systems scientist. Among the likely topics: centrally prescribed metrics and standardized testing, charter schools, and innovations in mathematics education. The discussion will be based upon analysis of complexity and scale, the substructure of neural cognition, and other relevant complex systems insights. This talk was delivered on March 14, 2012 at the Kaput Center at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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Online talks by Peter Allen, Bruce Edmonds and Jean Boulton given at University of Bath
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by James Gleick
The story of information began in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon as it is born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long-misunderstood talking drums of Africa, Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself.
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The second of Steven Strogatz's Simons Lectures, given in the MIT Department of Mathematics in April, 2011.
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What can mathematics say about history? According to TED Fellow Jean-Baptiste Michel, quite a lot. From changes to language to the deadliness of wars, he shows how digitized history is just starting to reveal deep underlying patterns.
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TED Talks How do we consume data? At TED@SXSWi, technologist JP Rangaswami muses on our relationship to information, and offers a surprising and sharp insight: we treat it like food.
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Eduardo Paes is the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, a sprawling, complicated, beautiful city of 6.5 million. He shares four big ideas about leading Rio -- and all cities -- into the future, including bold (and do-able) infrastructure upgrades and how to make a city "smarter."
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I recently had the pleasure of presenting at the first Data Visualisation London Meetup event where I spoke about some of work we do at UCL CASA. A fair chunk of the slides were movies so I thought it best to stick them in a blog post.
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The past decade has witnessed a momentous transformation in the way people interact and exchange information with each other. Content is now co-produced, shared, classified and rated on the Web by millions of people, while attention has become the ephemeral and valuable resource that everyone seeks to acquire. This talk will focus on how social attention is allocated among all media and how it decays as novelty fades and new content is created. This will be followed by a description of the role that attention plays in the production and consumption of content within social media, how its dynamics can be used to predict future trends, and its connection with the emergence of a public agenda.
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David Chalmers is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University. Chalmers is inter... Via Spaceweaver
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TED Talks Imagine a set of electronics as easy to play with as Legos. TED Fellow Ayah Bdeir introduces littleBits, a set of simple, interchangeable blocks that make programming as simple and important a part of creativity as snapping blocks together.
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Can your social network make you fat? Affect your mood? Political scientist James H. Fowler reveals the dynamics of social networks, the invisible webs that connect each of us to the other. With Nicholas A Christakis, Fowler recently coauthored, Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives.. Via EcoTone Advisors | Erika Harrison, David Rodrigues
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The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive | Santa Fe InstituteBrian Christian is the author of The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, and The Guardian. Each year Turing Test sponsors confer the title of "Most Human Computer" to the machine most successful at persuading the judges it’s human. But there is another prize, bizarre and intriguing, for the real person who does best; the "Most Human Human" award. Using his experiences as a “confederate” in the 2009 Turing test, and drawing on science, philosophy, literature and the arts, Brian Christian discusses the profound ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human.
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Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems Research Group Seminar Series February 22, 2012 Hiroki Sayama (Bioengineering & Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton University) "How Networks Changed the "Scale" of Our World"...
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