Stream 055 – Unintended Consequences with Complexity Scientist Yaneer Bar-Yam by HumanCurrent
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Category: Talks
Reinventing Society in the Digital Age – Dirk Helbing
This talk took place on May 9, 2017 as part of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna workshop series “RE-INVENTING SOCIETY IN THE DIGITAL AGE”.
The program for the event can be found at https://goo.gl/cloqsb.
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The biology of our best and worst selves
How can humans be so compassionate and altruistic — and also so brutal and violent? To understand why we do what we do, neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky looks at extreme context, examining actions on timescales from seconds to millions of years before they occurred. In this fascinating talk, he shares his cutting edge research into the biology that drives our worst and best behaviors.
Source: www.ted.com
Why Is ‘Systems Thinking’ So Rare?
Center for Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems (CoCo) Seminar Series
April 27, 2017
Mark Sellers (Systems Science, Binghamton University / Northrop Grumman Laser Systems)
“Why Is ‘Systems Thinking’ So Rare?”
Slides are available at http://bit.ly/2p51VEc
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Science in service to the public good
We give scientists and engineers great technical training, but we’re not as good at teaching ethical decision-making or building character. Take, for example, the environmental crisis that recently unfolded in Flint, Michigan — and the professionals there who did nothing to fix it. Siddhartha Roy helped prove that Flint’s water was contaminated, and he tells a story of science in service to the public good, calling on the next generation of scientists and engineers to dedicate their work to protecting people and the planet.
Source: www.ted.com
