Emoji are a great way to express yourself. Through Simulating the World, the latest interactive web toy by artist Nicky Case, they’re more than just cute stickers. They become a tool for thinking ...

Analysing human societies as complex systems can provide an insight into historical processes and the strengths and weaknesses of capitalism. Complex systems theory is a scientific theory coming out ...

Philanthropy, especially in the United States and Europe, is increasingly espousing the idea that transformative shifts in social care, education, and health systems are needed. Yet successful ...

Understanding the difference between deterministic and non-deterministic systems is key to thriving in this new world of AI.

Uri Wilensky is a professor of Learning Sciences, Computer Science and Complex Systems at Northwestern University; co-founder of the Northwestern Institute on Complex systems; and the founder and ...

Ever since ZapThink published our Business Agility as an Emergent Property of SOA ZapFlash, we've been explaining in our Licensed ZapThink Architect course how SOA implementations must be complex ...

In fields ranging from immunology and ecology to economics and thermodynamics, multi-scale complex systems are ubiquitous. They are also notoriously difficult to model. Conventional approaches take ...

Getting to the heart of causality is central to understanding the world around us. What causes one variable — be it a biological species, a voting region, a company stock, or a local climate — to ...

Ragnar van der Merwe received funding from the John Templeton Foundation as part of the project The Evolution of Complexity hosted at Bath University. Alex Broadbent received funding from the John ...