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Why can’t we get a good weather forecast? Meteorologist Edward Lorenz tried to predict the weather but in the end all he... Read more
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Alan Turing and Morphogenesis
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What makes tigers striped and cheetahs spotty? World War II code-breaker and father of computing, Alan Turing, has a sim... Read more
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Warren Weaver and Complexity Theory
Warren Weaver and Complexity Theory
In 1948, Warren Weaver identified what he called complex systems. These are systems where individual parts act independe... Read more
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D’Arcy Thompson, Structuralism and the Shape of Life
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If evolution is all about random mutations, why do the same patterns keep cropping up in the natural world? Coincidence?... Read more
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