Christopher X J. Jensen
Professor, Pratt Institute

What kind of in-group does Facebook represent?

Posted 05 Feb 2012 / 0

On the Media “Life in Facebookistan” I am fascinated by the idea that we all belong to many overlapping social groups, and I wonder how these groups might be subject to multilevel selection. “Facebookistan” is an interesting conceptualization of a large international group: Facebook users. With characteristic incisive questioning, On The Media suggests that this might Read More

A Minor Post, Multilevel Selection, Psychology, Radio & Podcasts

Steven Railsback and Volker Grimm offer new introduction to the process of agent- and individual-based modeling

Posted 27 Jan 2012 / 0

Princeton University Press “Agent-Based and Individual-Based Modeling: A Practical Introduction” by Steven Railsback and Volker Grimm

A Minor Post, Ecological Modeling, Individual-based Models, Spatially Explicit Modeling

Joel E. Cohen on the 7 billion human mark

Posted 04 Nov 2011 / 0

WNYC The Brian Lehrer Show “7 Billion and Counting“

A Minor Post, Carrying Capacity, Population Growth, Population Pressure

A fabulous article on the collective efforts that created the World Wide Web and the corporate efforts to destroy it

Posted 20 Aug 2011 / 0

Scientific American “Long Live the Web“

A Minor Post, Articles, Computer Science

National Geographic “Fatal Attraction”

Posted 05 Mar 2010 / 0

This month’s National Geographic features a really beautiful article on carnivorous plants written by Carl Zimmer. The article presents the numerous independently-evolved adaptations possessed by a diversity of plants which live in nitrogen-poor soil. These adaptations are a great example of coarse-scal evolutionary convergence, as a variety of plants have all come up with the Read More

A Minor Post, Adaptation, Articles, Bogs & Wetlands, Convergence, Evolution, MSCI-260, Evolution, Predation
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