302 | Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution
Randomness plays an important role in the evolution of life (as my evil twin will tell you). But random doesn’t […]
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301 | Tina Eliassi-Rad on Al, Networks, and Epistemic Instability
Big data is ruling, or at least deeply infiltrating, all of modern existence. Unprecedented capacity for collecting and analyzing large
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299 | Michael Wong on Information, Function, and the Origin of Life
Living organisms seem exquisitely organized and complex, with features clearly adapted to serving certain functions needed to survive and procreate.
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296 | Brandon Ogbunu on Fitness Seascapes and the Course of Evolution
Biological evolution via natural selection is a simple idea that becomes enormously complicated in its realization. Populations of organisms are
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293 | Doyne Farmer on Chaos, Crashes, and Economic Complexity
A large economy is one of the best examples we have of complex dynamics. There are multiple components arranged in
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286 | Blaise Agüera y Arcas on the Emergence of Replication and Computation
Understanding how life began on Earth involves questions of chemistry, geology, planetary science, physics, and more. But the question of
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269 | Sahar Heydari Fard on Complexity, Justice, and Social Dynamics
When it comes to social change, two questions immediately present themselves: What kind of change do we want to see
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266 | Christoph Adami on How Information Makes Sense of Biology
Evolution is sometimes described — not precisely, but with some justification — as being about the “survival of the fittest.”
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253 | David Deutsch on Science, Complexity, and Explanation
David Deutsch is one of the most creative scientific thinkers working today, who has as a goal to understand and
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251 | Rosemary Braun on Uncovering Patterns in Biological Complexity
Biological organisms are paradigmatic emergent systems. That atoms of which they are made mindlessly obey the local laws of physics;
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