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Online Community Development
fromPhys
2 days 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.
Philosophy
fromAeon
4 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.
History
fromNature
5 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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