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Duncan Watts

14 mai 2012 Topics : Science

References
[1] D. J. Watts, Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer. Crown Business, 2011, p. 352.
[2] No one is reading your E-mails.


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Edward O. Wilson: “The Social Conquest of Earth”

07 mai 2012 Topics : Philosophy | Science

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[1] E. O. Wilson, The Social Conquest of Earth. Liveright Publishing Corporation,U.S.


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Terrence Deacon - Language and complexity: Evolution inside out

16 janvier 2012 Topics : Science

References
[1] Terrence Deacon Home Page
[2] T. W. Deacon, Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter. W. W. Norton & Company, 2011, p. 624.


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Marc Pagel : Infinite Stupidity

13 décembre 2011 Topics : Science




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[1] M. D. Pagel, Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind. WW Norton & Co, 2012, p. 384.

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Complexity Talks by Albert-László Barabási, Geoffrey West

24 novembre 2011 Topics : Science











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Time-lapse video from ISS

14 novembre 2011 Topics : Art | Science

Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.

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Iain McGilchrist and Michael Gazzaniga : The Divided Brain

23 octobre 2011 Topics : Social Science | Philosophy






References
[1] I. McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. Yale University Press, 2010, p. 608.
[2] M. S. Gazzaniga, Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain. Ecco, 2011.
[3] Iain McGilchrist's webpage
[4] Edge's page of Michael Gazzaniga
[5] V. S. Ramachandran, The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human. W. W. Norton & Company, 2011, p. 357.




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Learning from Bacteria about Social Networks

19 octobre 2011 Topics : Science | Biology | Medicine | Networking | Social Science


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[1] Wikipedia's page of Eshel Ben-Jacob

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The Sagan and Feynman Series

09 octobre 2011 Topics : Science | Sustainability






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[1] The Sagan Series
[2] The Feynman Series
[3] The LongNow Foundation

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History and Effects of the Civilization

02 octobre 2011 Topics : Social Science | Economy | Philosophy | Politics












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[1] A History of Violence and Edge Master Class 2011 by Steven Pinker
[2] Edge.org
[3] S. Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Viking Adult, 2011, p. 832.
[4] Steven Pinker Profile
[1] N. Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest. Penguin Press HC, The, 2011, p. 432.




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Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity

03 août 2011 Topics : Science | Philosophy | Biology










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[1] M. D. Pagel, Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind. WW Norton & Co, 2012, p. 384.


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Peter Kareiva & J. Stephen Lansing: Conservation in the Real World

13 juillet 2011 Topics : Enviroment | Science




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[1] P. Kareiva, H. Tallis, T.H. Ricketts, G.C. Daily, and S. Polasky, Natural Capital: Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services, Oxford University Press, USA, 2011.
[2] J.S. Lansing, Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali, Princeton University Press, 2007.

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The Empathic Civilisation by Jeremy Rifkin

30 mai 2011 Topics : Economy | Science

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[1] J. Rifkin, The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis, Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2010.

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Why Cities Keep Growing, Corporations and People Always Die, and Life Gets Faster by Geoffrey West

16 août 2011 Topics : Science



References
[1] Edge Page about the talk of Geoffrey West
[2] Web page's of Geoffrey West

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Kevin Kelly : What Technology Wants

02 décembre 2010 Topics : Technology | Science




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[1] K. Kelly, What Technology Wants, Viking Books, 2010.
[2] K. Kelly Home Page

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Les nouvelles technologies : révolution culturelle et cognitive – Michel Serres

24 novembre 2010 Topics : Technology | Science

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David Eagleman on Possibilianism

28 octobre 2010 Topics : Science | Philosophy




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[1] Possibilian web site
[2] D. Eagleman, Sum: Tales from the Afterlives, Canongate Books Ltd, 2010.
[3] D. Eagleman web site

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Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data

04 août 2010 Topics : Technology | Science

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Cornell University : Computational Systesis Laboratory

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