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Sorin Adam Matei

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Social Physics: Measuring and Explaining Social Interactions as Complex Reflexive Systems

If the latest trendy phrase in cybersphere, Social Physics, should refer to anything, that should be an emergent social scientific approach to characterizing social systems as if they were particle aggregates, each component unit moving according to laws dictated by their intrinsic…

The origin of human skin color

The origin of dark color in human skin is strongly connected to our African roots. However, it is puzzling how different we are from the great apes… SHAVE a chimpanzee and you will find that beneath its hairy coat its skin is…

About the VOSON Project | Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON)

An ambitious Social Netwok Analysis site… The World Wide Web (WWW) has changed how humans interact; for some scholars, we now live in the “Age of the Network”. As online populations grow and the quantity and quality of interactions improve with new…

Memories in Nature – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com

Image via Wikipedia “The conscious, brain-based memories that we humans set so much store by are not the only memories out there.” Think of our immune system for a minute… And then, get ready to learn about plant memories. Truly poetic… via…