Sublime

We live in a global village of broken barriers and borderless communities. The internet has allowed us to reach across thousands of miles, offering convenience and connection without having to leave the sofa. The problem is that if we spend so long looking out into the distance, we miss what’s close at hand. We spend so lon

They exist mainly because of a lack of information, or trained personnel, or incentives—all areas in which the right government policies can make a big difference.

The value (“fitness”) of a given combination of building blocks often cannot be predicted by a summing up of values assigned to the component blocks. This nonlinearity (commonly called epistasis in genetics) leads to co-adapted sets of blocks (alleles) that serve to bias sampling and add additional layers to the hierarchy.

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The take-home message from Schelling’s story—that incentives sometimes backfire—is familiar to psychologists.

The only option is to forge your own path. You must set a conscious goal, create clarity through self-education and experimentation, and abide by the principle of progressive overload: to increase the challenge, practice until your skill is up to par, and repeat the process as life lessons compound into a personal philosophy that can be shared to a

“The Entertainment Technology Center” (www.etc.cmu.edu),

A third approach attempts to leverage and organize existing media content and exchanges, rather than induce participants to produce new content. This approach is closely allied to academic work on "digital humanities", which harnesses computation to understand and organize human cultural output at scale. Organizations like the Society Lib