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Evidence also suggests that when average incomes tend to rise in a neighborhood relative to its surrounding areas, the racial demographics of the areas are slower to change. Sociologist Patrick Sharkey, for example, finds that the lessening of poverty in US neighborhoods between 1970 and 2000 is not associated with white residents displacing

roughly half of the population over its lifetime and an average of 11,000 unique daily visitors.

The science of complex systems is the study of how local interactions can lead to global consequences.

The causes of poor health are many and complex, and, therefore, solutions are complex and diverse, as well. Public health conceptualizes and organizes this complexity by applying the concepts and principles of ecology, which views individuals as embedded within their environment, or context.

our particular agent’s worldsheet and the simple geometric result that the average probability of interaction over some time is proportional to the individual’s worldsheet divided by the interaction volume of the city over that time, multiplied by the number of other agents, N − 1.

Hence, we are more likely to accept a dangerous idea if it aligns with our own experiences and is supported by the people we value.

Each of us is sewn by invisible threads into the superorganism. We are cells in the beast of family, company, and country. If those social ties are severed we begin to shrivel and die. There’s more. Hard work and the pursuit of challenge have seldom been demonstrated to hurt us, but we can be damaged powerfully by the lack of control. And without

Ideas, things and even individuals can cross in both directions, but however porous and elastic the boundary is – and both are major components in its strength – it must retain its integrity if the group is to survive as a definable people.