As a physicist I was taught to boil down every complex problem to its most basic, simple, and solvable elements. It was a strategy I totally embraced. While this reductio ad absurdum approach has made ...

The power grid is an example of a network connected to other networks, such as telecommunications, travel and the economy. Researchers at UC Davis and Caltech are studying how surprising and complex ...

Generate three principles of emergent group behavior. Ask students what kind of simple rules the individual animals mentioned in Question 1 might be following as they gather in their groups. What does ...

Uri Wilensky of Northwestern University’s Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling Department observed the world has a variety of natural or emergent phenomena consisting of patterns, ...