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Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread--The Lessons from a New Science Alex Pentland
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)

But one Positivist assumptions provided the epistemological foundations for Social Darwinism and pop-evolutionary notions of progress, as well as for scientific racism and imperialism. Apr 30, 2014 - The deluge of changes that shook Europe around 1800 -- the making of the modern world -- brought with them an explosion of big new ideas, new ways of framing the social, historical, and natural world which we inhabit. One would think that writers in the humanities would be delighted and energized by the efflorescence of new ideas from the sciences. Jun 18, 2013 |By Ozgun Atasoy With social media connecting people to an unprecedented degree, it is possible that the sudden emergence of unexpected collective action will be a defining feature of this era. Aug 7, 2013 - Not only did many of them contribute to mathematics, physics, and physiology, but all of them were avid theorists in the sciences of human nature. Feb 18, 2014 - How do technological advances affect the spread of new ideas? Jan 4, 2014 - Spreading the message of science and skepticism is vitally important. Amazon.com: Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread—The Lessons from a New Science (9781594205651): Alex Pentland: Books. Social media became the Please send suggestions to Mind Matters editor Gareth Cook, a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and regular contributor to NewYorker.com. Apr 1, 2014 - Meanwhile, Joanna Ptolomey it talking online about big data too and Alex Pentland's new book about big data – Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread – The Lessons from a New Science. But is using a trendy pattern the best way to do so? For instance, there is not enough time in your life to learn how an aircraft carrier works, let along all that 'brand new' science for the electronics. Dec 16, 2013 - While disease models draw on ideas about epidemic spread that predate digital computers, and are scientifically well-grounded, climate models are much more complex and are a large, ramified work in progress. Darwin, Freud, Marx, Walras, Carnot, Classical physics offered a view of the world that stressed the fundamental orderliness of nature -- the idea that natural phenomena were mathematical and law-governed. Mar 7, 2014 - I was in the airport (a fairly common hang out for me) waiting for a plane and I picked up a copy of the new book by Alex “Sandy” Pentland called “Social Physics”. Mar 9, 2014 - There is a chance, however small, that they may be right, but science doesn't work through guesswork, it works by considering all the evidence and weighing that evidence accordingly. A big part of my fear is anecdotal. Likewise, talking nonsense about ice-cores @ Cambridge with Eric Wolff in the audience was likely not a good idea either. Jun 18, 2013 - The protests in Turkey demonstrate the social physics of highly connected crowds.