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Steven Johnson on the source of good ideas

Two short videos by science writer Steven Johnson on his book Where good ideas come from: the natural history of innovation. An animated promotional video for his book: And him giving a TED talk. Steve Johnson has posted some of … Continue reading

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Homer-Dixon on Risk, Uncertainty and Crises

Think Globally Radio recently posted a number of great interviews. Here is one interesting one with political scientist, and renown author Thomas Homer-Dixon from University of Waterloo (Canada) – one of the world’s leading scholars on the intersection of environment, security … Continue reading

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Economics as a complex systems science

An interesting interview of Paul Krugman by Edward Hugh is on A Fistful of Euros: E.H. : The late Sir Karl Popper used to contrast what he regarded as science with ideologies like Marxism and Psychoanalysis, because there seemed to … Continue reading

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