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I'm a big fan of the counterintuitive results of messing with systems, and this is a very lovely example. The video at this page talks about what happened when wolves were returned to Yellowstone after 70 years ( Read more... )

I wanted to capture this here, because it's elegant and a great catch ( Read more... )

WOOT! I've been looking for this for years, but I couldn't remember useful enough search terms and I didn't know the author.

Apparently, it's from Draper Kauffman, in "Systems 1: An Introduction to Systems Thinking," (at least according to Gene Bellinger at systems-thinking.com from whom I have grabbed these.) I had originally seen them ( Read more... )

Five Ways to Survive Any Disaster "1. Learn how to text message."

The extinction of species and why it matters more than you think This was interesting to me, because the social networking theorists and some of the math that's vaguely alluded to I'm familiar with. I've mentioned (at a dead run -- I've not had the chance to discuss) Granovetter ( Read more... )

Have yet to figure out how to wedge being an early musician into things, but that's one of today's very, very few loose ends....

Note to self:

Write up more on today's talk at work on The Patterns Project by Andrea A. diSessa (UC Berk.)

From talk, the rubric:Definition: The essence, defining features ( Read more... )