“Social Entrepreneurship has Complexity Written All Over It”

That's the title and conclusion of this paper by Jeffrery Goldstein et al which was presented at  this talk at the Skoll Foundation International Social Innovation Conference 2009.  Here's a slide from that talk that I like: If you like the theme of "Social Entrepreneurship, Systems Thinking and...

The Quandaries of Quantifying Complexity

My good friend and computer scientest Kyle Burke has recently started a highly interesting blog on his research field: combinatorial game theory. The idea of this field is to use games as a tool for studying issues of complexity. Though his blog is only a month old, some important foundational ideas have...

A Middle/High School That Teaches Complex Systems Through Games??!

A new school is opening in New York for grades 6-12 that completely blows my mind. The Quest to Learn school combines games and complex systems in a way that pretty much would have made my life as a teenager. Hell, I wouldn't mind going back to high school now if I got to go here. I'll let them describe...

Complex Links: Cancer

Why We're Losing the War on Cancer Untangling the Roots of Cancer Cancer as an evolutionary and ecological process Scientific, Social and Organizational Requirements for the Specific Cure of Cancer Stochastic cancer progression driven by non-clonal chromosome aberrations Aneuploidy theory explains...