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

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. Likewise, talking nonsense about ice-cores @ Cambridge with Eric Wolff in the audience was likely not a good idea either. Videos are now available from the YOW! In the blog Usually there are moral lessons also associated with Avatars. 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. May 4, 2014 - I am part way through Social Physics: how good ideas spread - the lessons from a new science by MIT academic and entrepreneur Alex Pentland. Apr 30, 2014 - As is well known, the scientific method consists of making observations with the sense organs (mainly eyes with the help of devices like telescopes, microscopes, electronics etc.); making Assuming that the survey was correct, such a low rate of belief in science is probably based on literal interpretation by the participants, of their scriptures which were written thousands of years back. 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. Oct 2, 2013 - Is the platform itself a science communication tool? 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. Feb 25, 2014 - And in his new book Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread—The Lessons from a New Science Pentland takes time out to catch us up on his findings. For more on the amazing ways human social networks improve problem solving take a look at Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread-The Lessons from a New Science. 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. To answer these questions, and many more, I talked to Allison Mercer, the Georgia Tech physicist who came up with the idea for GT Starter in the first place. Mar 4, 2014 - Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread – The Lessons From a New Science, Alex Pentland takes a mathematical approach to human behavior to better understand where good ideas come from, and how they spread. One would think that writers in the humanities would be delighted and energized by the efflorescence of new ideas from the sciences.