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110 | Neil Johnson on Complexity, Conflict, and Infodemiology

3 Comments / Complexity / August 17, 2020

Physicists have traditionally simplified systems as much as possible, in order to shed light on fundamental properties. But small, simple […]

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Episode 5: Geoffrey West on Networks, Scaling, and the Pace of Life

5 Comments / Biology, Complexity, Physics / July 16, 2018

If you scale up an animal to twice its height, keeping everything else proportionate, its volume and weight become eight

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