That cutesy, perfectly circular image of yin and yang teardrop-ing into each other might actually be quite wrong, at local scales. It’s not a static …
Absurcracy
I’ve learned some fascinating things reading news headlines over the last year or so. This is mostly thanks(?!) to an app on my phone, which …
Traffic flow, ‘jamitons’ and trucks
…I like the word jamiton*… this idea of a traffic jam “particle”… a component of a deceleration wave travelling backwards through traffic from something concrete …
Failure nets : the ‘dark matter’ of complex systems
A thought: Complex systems are prone to fail and, knowing that, we build into them every manner of defense against such outcomes. If we consider …
SYN-ACK? (or, the fragility of human relationships)
<mood-warning>rambling vague psychobabble</mood-warning> Human interactions are interesting things. One thing I have learned about them is that an incredibly huge proportion of every set of …