How games and game engines can provide new ways of comprehending networked and distributed forms of intelligence. gaming could serve as an alternative to voting — could potentially be realized with a plurality of people gaming national and global eventualities. For any given issue, different proposals could be gamed in parallel. As some games collapsed, […]
How Nature Defies Math in Keeping Ecosystems Stable
Paradoxically, the abundance of tight interactions among living species usually leads to disasters in ecological models. New analyses hint at how nature seemingly defies the math. Diverse, complex ecosystems in nature are generally stabilized by the abundant interactions among the species they hold. Yet in simulations, model ecosystems typically become less stable as the interactions […]
extreme heat next week: Siberia, Canada, Scandinavia
Extreme Heat Event in Northern Siberia and the coastal Arctic Ocean This Week The heatwave in northern Siberia is receding, but heat is building in Northern Canada and Scandinavia this week. All the result of very strong, persistent high pressure systems, leading to surface temperatures 15-30 degrees F (8-17 C) above normal. Global Forecast System […]