Complexity Digest 2005.37 - 16.01

05/09/16

Three New Web Casts:

Complexity, Science & Society Conference 2005
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[b][green]ECAL2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life
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[green][b]T.Irene Sanders, Executive Director and Founder, The Washington Center for Complexity & Public Policy
http://complexity.vub.ac.be/~comdig/Sanders0508/Sanders0508.mov

Harvesting Energy By Improving The Economy Of Human Walking, Science Bookmark and Share

Excerpts: Humans are tremendously flexible when converting almost any food into energy, but they are both inflexible and insatiable in their demand for mobile energy in another form: electricity. In the developed world, many people seem more concerned with their cell phone battery life than with their next meal. Given the plentiful and, in many cases, increasing supply of stored onboard energy (that is, fat), could humans not generate the necessary electricity themselves? Hand-operated generators are both inexpensive and effective for short-term use.