Emergence and Persistence of Communities in Coevolutionary Networks

Here is some serious geekery for your Saturday entertainment. This is a fairly complex and computational model of how social communities emerge and survive over time through a process called “adaptive rewiring.” Here is a brief overview of how these coevolutionary networks might exist in different realms: In a social network, communities might indicate factions, … Read more

Kelly Clancy – Your Brain Is On the Brink of Chaos

From Nautilus, Kelly Clancy takes a look at the increasing evidence for chaos in the brain and nervous system. The nervous system is literally overwhelmed by incoming sensory data, so much so that much of it never makes it into consciousness. On the other hand, the brain stem and its adjacent structures, a collection of … Read more