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Corruption, Culpability and Short-Termism

Feb 082010

February 8, 2010 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 3:03 pm Primers Comments Off

Corruption, Culpability and Short-Termism

National Photo Co. Dr. Buzzkill September 5, 1925 Washington, D.C. “W.A. Green, Chief Prohibition Inspector.” Ilargi: As everyone spends their time getting increasingly nervous about the future quality of ouzo and olive oil, Stoneleigh looks ahead and beyond and holds up a mirror that says many of the aspects of modern day Greek society that make it so vulnerable are in fact established features of all countries and communities, features that have merely been dormant for what will look

Fractal Adaptive Cycles in Natural and Human Systems

Jan 012010

January 1, 2010 Posted by Nicole Foss at 8:16 pm Primers Comments Off

Fractal Adaptive Cycles in Natural and Human Systems

Detroit Publishing Co. Taxi! Taxi! 1900 Cab stand at Madison Square, New York City Stoneleigh: Adaptive cycles are the foundation of both natural ecological and human socio-economic systems, and have been investigated independently from very different perspectives by ecologists and financial analysts who have almost certainly never heard of each others’ work. It is interesting then to look at the strong correspondence of the self-similar hierarchical patterns, best described as fractals, which emerge from both fields. This form of organization