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his human flock, and it was thus right and natural for his subjects to obey him
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
area is proportional to r2 just comes down to dimensional analysis.
Sean M. Carroll • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
Even if the inflaton started out with the bare minimum level of jitters allowed for by the uncertainty principle, a burst of inflationary expansion would transform these into macroscopic wobbles, superimposing on the overall smoothness of the expanding universe a wavy pattern of variations in the field, much like ripples on the surface of an otherw
... See moreThomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
But this sort of omnivorous eclectic mindset, which is very much what the SFI is, that is an aspect of physics that has been built into the genome of the SFI. That’s what would be necessary to be able to go after those kinds of aspects of conventional economics, which are just sitting there and have been for over half a century. Nobody’s actually t
... See moreW. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
gregarious.
Lisa Taddeo • Three Women: THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Alexander von Humboldt—Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt—or Baron von Humboldt, as he was commonly addressed. He had been born in Berlin on September 14, 1769, the second son of a middle-aged army officer, a minor figure in the court of Frederick the Great, and of a rather solemn, domineering young woman of Huguenot descent who
... See moreDavid McCullough • Brave Companions
Einstein’s and Eddington’s