Tag: disorder

• Grad Students Find Inevitable Patterns in Big Sets of Numbers

  August 8, 2024

  In late 2017, Ashwin Sah and Mehtaab Sawhney met as undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since then, the pair have written a mind-boggling 57 math proofs together, many… more ›

• Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century

  December 5, 2023

  Helen Thompson explains why we in the West, live in the political times we do; a moment of historical time arising from systemic dynamics that have wrought predicaments to confront… more ›

• The war that changed the world

  August 21, 2022

  It feels like an eternity ago, that grim wintry pre-dawn of Thursday 24 February. https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/ukraine/2022/08/ukraine-invasion-six-months-that-changed-world more ›

• How the Coronavirus Spread QAnon

  August 9, 2020

  Anecdotal examples bolster what the data shows. Internet communities that hadn’t previously done so are now associating with far-right conspiracies like QAnon, impending mass arrests of elites for running pedophile… more ›

• Antifragile states and global cities

  December 1, 2019

  In a series of books, and especially in Antifragile, Nassim Taleb has introduced an important concept — that of being antifragile, referring to ‘things that gain from disorder’. https://www.ips-journal.eu/regions/global/article/show/antifragile-states-and-global-cities-3879/ more ›

• From Chile to Lebanon, Protests Flare Over Wallet Issues

  October 24, 2019

  Pocketbook items have become the catalysts for popular fury across the globe in recent weeks. LONDON — In Chile, the spark was an increase in subway fares. In Lebanon, it… more ›

• Design for the New Normal — Superflux

  November 19, 2018

  Design for the New Normal — Superflux We developed our Design for the New Normal talk for the NEXT Conference in Berlin, April 2013. This is an ongoing research piece and… more ›