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The boy thinks: Something slow and purposeful wants to turn every human building into soil.

But in a real sense, the Sternins were building a Baran Web

The bottom line is that small changes in the communication structure can affect decisions.

It was on these foundations that John von Neumann created the architecture of the modern computer, which represents our third major idea. Called the von Neumann machine, it has remained the core structure of essentially every computer for the past sixty-seven years, from the microcontroller in your washing machine to the largest supercomputers. In

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By simulating as many as 20 million possible ganglion circuits, Marder’s lab found that the vast majority aren’t capable of producing the needed rhythms, but certain specific configurations are. Each lobster, through some combination of genes and development, finds its way to one of these functioning configurations.

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

he helped start a research group called MIDAS, which stood for Mining Data at Stanford.