WOMEN CHANGE EVERYTHING

Not Enough Males ? Monoamines Change Everything !

Being a mother can be very hard work, and finding enough food to feed your young is risky and time-consuming. But some parasitoid species give their young the best start in life by having an energy-rich meal ready and waiting when they emerge from the egg. The catch is that this very nutritious breakfast is the body of a hapless victim, its muscles paralysed by the mother’s venom. However, not ...

Context Is Everything : Measuring Institutional Change in Transition Economies

* This paper was prepared while the author was a World Bank's Robert S. McNamara Fellow. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed here are entirely those of the author and should not be attributed in any manner to the World Bank, to its affiliate organizations, or to members of its Board of Directors or the countries they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy...

Everything Computes

The emergence of complexity in our universe is caused by generative processes that confound us. Collective behaviours going under names such as evolution, swarming, embryogenesis, thought, and emergence produce results that seem counterintuitive (or downright impossible) when the individual elements in the collective are examined. In this seminar I explore the causes of complex behaviour in gen...

Everything flows

S ometimes, an important aspect of the world is so obvious that we simply take it for granted. We rarely discuss it or even think about it explicitly. In our opinion, the processual nature of reality— that it is fundamentally a sequence of interconnected occurrences or events—is one such aspect: we continually experience change, but tend instead to explain the world in terms of static things. F...

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