One of the biggest projects of complex systems research is to find "universal" phenomena: patterns that manifest themselves in sim...

This has nothing to do with complex systems theory, but it's so cool I had to share it. I found out on Wired Science today that, accord...

Christos Papadimitriou , one of the world's foremost computational theorists, gave a talk Thursday at MIT entitled "The Algorithmic...

Like it or hate it, there's no denying that capitalism is the dominant economic system on the globe. In countries which established capi...

Communism was always a mystery to me. Why was it that all the countries supposedly founded on the egalitarian ideals of Marx ended up as rep...

We humans are an egotistical bunch. We'd like to think that we are capable of anything, that our minds are infinite, and that there is ...

Complexity matters. This will hopefully become evident through the course of our discussion, but for now let's accept the principle that...