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Big Data, Global Development, and Complex Social SystemsNathan Eagle, Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, infers behavioral dynamics on a broad spectrum of scales using technology; from risky behavior in a group of MIT freshman, to cholera outbreaks in Rwanda and wealth in the UK, to disease transmission and slum formations in East Africa. ...
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The outbreak of cooperation among success-driven individuals under noisy conditions — PNASAccording to Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan [1651; 2008 (Touchstone, New York), English Ed], “the life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short,” and it would need powerful social institutions to establish social order. In reality, however, social cooperation can also arise spontaneously, ...
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Brain lives at "edge of chaos"U.K. researchers are offering new evidence that the human brain lives “on the edge of chaos,” at a critical transition point between randomness and order. The study, published March 20 in the research journal PLoS Computational Biology, provides experimental data ...
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The outbreak of cooperation among success-driven individuals under noisy conditions — PNASThe outbreak of cooperation among success-driven individuals under noisy conditions
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The Network University? Technology, Culture and Organisational Complexity in Contemporary Higher EducationWhile Castells and other network theorists often treat the network as a force that is somehow seen to precede the social, the findings of our study of networked technology in the university setting indicate that the so-called logic of the network is marked by a number of potential trajectories. ...
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Learning to share learning - an exploration of methods to improve and share learningA report prepared for the UK Commission for Health Improvement. March 2003 This report is an illustrated literature review drawing on studies in the fields of education, psychology, organisational learning, personal learning, and participatory approaches to explore understanding of good ...
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Networks and partnershipsLike organisations, networks come in different shapes and sizes. At one extreme, they are informal, loosely structured communities of practice, with a shared leadership or none at all. At the other, they have a secretariat, a recognised leader and a clear agenda. The form of a network can evolve ...
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Citizen engagement in science and technology policy: a commentary on recent UK experienceA complex area of scientific, social and ethical debate was being dealt with in an apparently arrogant and high-handed manner. At the same time, the public’s legitimate questions over risk and technological development were dismissed as irrational and ignorant. Whilst the BSE and GM food cases ...
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Building leadership and facilitation capacity in Networked Learning CommunitiesNetworked Learning Communities -NLCs- is a development and research programme involving six percent of all schools in the United Kingdom. The programme’s focus on ‘development’ is deliberate and reflects a set of values which requires network members to make a commitment to ‘ Learn from , with and ...
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BBC NEWS | UK | Website maps surnames worldwideA website which maps global surnames has been launched to help people find the origins of their name and how far it may have spread.
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