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| | | | | In this episode we sit down with professor Neil Theise, the author of Notes on Complexity, to get an introduction to the science of how complex systems behave - from cells to human beings, to ecosystems, the known universe, and beyond - and we explore if Ian Malcolm was right when he told us in... | |
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| | | | | Fresh from postingon the winter of the steel industry in China, I see that Richard Jones has written a nice top-level view of the role of steel in the world economy, explaining broad indicators like per-capita steel demand, and steel intensity, or steel use per unit of GDP: The dominant uses for steel now are... | |
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| | | | | From a conceptual point of view, the economics of research and development is the opposite of pollution. When a private party carries out an economic activity that leads to pollution, the private party gets the economic benefit, but the broader society bears the costs (in the jargon, a "negative externality"). However, when a private party | |
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| | | SECOND-CLASS IN OUR OWN COUNTRY: Why an English Parliament Would Stop the Rot https://www.visionnews.online/post/second-class-in-our-own-country-why-an-english-parliament-would-stop-the-rot https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3d0183_999f399b67f7435aa299c348a0335a1f~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_1000,h_541,al_c,q_90,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01/3d0183_999f399b67f7435aa299c348a0335a1f~mv2.png 2025-05-07T07:00:13.993Z It's time for England to stand up, and demand its own parliament-before there's nothing left to save. Philip James | ||