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fromEurekAlert!
1 day ago
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Why some people change only when enough others do

Understanding individual thresholds for change and social networks can help overcome resistance to adopting new behaviors like climate change solutions.
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fromPhys
2 weeks ago

Personal change thresholds may explain why popular policies fail to spread

Individual thresholds for adopting new behaviors vary widely, and measuring these thresholds through behavioral experiments can help overcome resistance to widely supported solutions like climate change mitigation.
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fromAeon
5 months ago

A radical reimagining of physics puts information at its centre | Aeon Videos

A proposed law of increasing functional information treats information as fundamental, explaining rising complexity across systems and offering insight into the nature of time.
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fromNature
6 months ago

What drove the rise of civilizations? A decades-long quest points to warfare

By the sixteenth century, multiple large societies independently developed structurally similar political institutions, revealing common patterns in social evolution discoverable through data and complexity science.
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