By Athenarium / Posted on10/03/2022 Sensitivity, Uncertainty, and Incompleteness — Brief notes on Clockworks, Chaos, and Computation Quantum worlds, butterfly effects, and incompleteness problems.
By Athenarium / Posted on07/03/2022 A Crude Look at the Whole — John Miller on the Complex Systems of Life, Business, and Society Automata, sea snails and invisible hands
By Athenarium / Posted on26/01/2022 On Being The Right Size — J.B.S Haldane on Size, Structure, Nature and Institutions Galileo, Godzilla, and cheetah-like elephants.
By Athenarium / Posted on01/11/2021 The Eerie Silence — Paul Davies on SETI, the Drake Equation, and Anthropocentrism The search for extraterrestrial intelligence requires a truly long-term perspective.
By Athenarium / Posted on09/08/2021 How Democracies Die – Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt on Norms and Forbearance The historical patterns of democratic subversion, and the important roles for norms, legitimacy and forbearance.
By Athenarium / Posted on13/04/2021 The Nature of Human Existence — Edward O. Wilson on Superorganisms, Eusociality and Human Nature What leafcutter ants and superorganisms can tell us about organisation and human nature.
By Athenarium / Posted on26/02/2021 The Blind Watchmaker — Richard Dawkins on Complexity, Cumulative Selection and Arms Races Richard Dawkins helps us to understand the process of evolution and the emergence of complexity.
