{"id":2724,"date":"2008-05-24T21:27:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T21:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2008-05-24T21:27:49","modified_gmt":"2008-05-24T21:27:49","slug":"cherry-picking-from-complexity-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2724","title":{"rendered":"Cherry-Picking from Complexity Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forgot about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comdig.org\/index.php?id_issue=2008.21#30202\"><strong><em>Complexity Digest<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>for a while. Some great stuff there &#8211; a sampling:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.santafe.edu\/research\/publications\/workingpapers\/08-05-024.pdf\">A theory for the formation of large agrarian empires<\/a><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>by<strong> Peter Turchin<\/strong> (PDF)<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2008\/05\/080513202149.htm\">New Insights Into The Dynamics Of The Brain&#8217;s Cortex <\/a>&#8211; <strong><em>Science Daily<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aaas.org\/news\/releases\/2008\/0422national_security.shtml\">Natural Security: Ecologist Says Evolution Offers Important Lessons for Security Policy\u00a0 <\/a>&#8211; <strong>AAAS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In regard to the last one: the need for consilient thinking is starting to penetrate the bureaucracy &#8211; about goddamn time<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgot about Complexity Digest for a while. Some great stuff there &#8211; a sampling: A theory for the formation of large agrarian empires\u00a0 by Peter Turchin (PDF) New Insights Into The Dynamics Of The Brain&#8217;s Cortex &#8211; Science Daily Natural Security: Ecologist Says Evolution Offers Important Lessons for Security Policy\u00a0 &#8211; AAAS In regard to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complexity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}