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Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread--The Lessons from a New Science by Alex Pentland

Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread--The Lessons from a New Science Alex Pentland ebook
Format: pdf
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
ISBN: 9781594205651
Page: 320

The program will Laszlo Barabasi, Distinguished Professor of Physics, director for the Center of Complex Network Research, and a core faculty member of the new graduate program in network science. 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. Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread—The Lessons from a New Science. Feb 21, 2014 - "This university was the first modern research university in the nation; we've been developing and spreading new ideas as a research institution since long before there even was a TED. Dec 29, 2013 - Amnesiac reformers, pumped full of certitude, have pushed forward with “new science,” “new math” and “new history” curricula many times over the past century believing that the content in of itself–particularly delivered by academic Should teachers concentrate on teaching essential subject-matter (e.g., biology, chemistry, physics) to unknowing students or have students act as biologists, chemists, and physicists, posing hunches, inquiring, and solving problems? Mar 5, 2014 - On this episode Cristina and I discuss the new book by Alex Pentland called Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread--The Lessons from a New Science. Jul 9, 2013 - Northeastern will begin recruiting the doctoral program's first class of students this fall. Likewise, talking nonsense about ice-cores @ Cambridge with Eric Wolff in the audience was likely not a good idea either. Photo by In addition to his research on the spread of epidemic contagions, Vespignani is also looking at the spread of ideas and knowledge through social spaces. May 2, 2014 - Pentland's book "Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread--The Lessons from a New Science" provides a full coverage of his viewpoints. 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. 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. Apr 29, 2014 - Lesson 3: I found myself veering between 'oh wow, this is a whole new way of seeing the world' and 'this is just describing what we do already in a new vocabulary'. Oct 2, 2013 - Is the platform itself a science communication tool?