Jessica Flack
Professor, Santa Fe Institute | Director, Collective Computation Group @ SFI | Chair, SFI Public Events
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How Swarming Insects Act Like Fluids
Quanta Magazine 6d 4 tweets
By studying a swarm of flying midges as though it were a fluid, physicists have learned how collective behaviors might stabilize a group against environmental disruptions.
Spontaneity and diversity of movement to music are not uniquely human
Sciencedirect.com 8d 1 tweets
Spontaneous movement to music occurs in every human culture and is a foundation of dance [1]. This response to music is absent in most species (includ…
Capturing The Undersung Blues People Of The Rural South
NPR.org 8d 1 tweets
Tim Duffy started Music Maker Relief Foundation to support blues musicians lost to time and poverty. He's also photographed their portraits for a new book, compilation album and museum exhibition.
Jessica Flack Luthier Freeman Vines sits with his hand-carved guitars in the tobacco field by his house, 2015 by Tim Duffy. Fabulous story about talented but unsung (until now) blues musicians from the rural south. 8d
‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’ by Frederick Douglass
The Nation 743d 26 tweets
This is the perfect time to read the entirety of Freerick Douglass’s famous speech, and not merely because of the date on the calendar.
SFI Community Lecture - Swarm Engineering Across Scales
Santafe.edu 14d 2 tweets
Welcome to Santa Fe Institute.
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Jessica Flack Please join on YouTube Tuesday, July 9 (tomorrow), for a sure-to-be great, accessible public lecture by on swarm intelligence & how we can engineer swarms of nanoparticles to treat cancer & flying robots to enhance communication 8d
Top 10 academic institutions in 2018: normalized
Nature.com 27d 8 tweets
This ranking shows which institutions might be punching above their weight in producing high-quality research.
Complexity Explained
Complexityexplained.github.io 18d 4 tweets
IEEE Xplore Full-Text PDF:
Ieeexplore.ieee.org 16d 1 tweets
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Jessica Flack Uncertainty & automation: In excllnt essay on the father of cybernetics, explrs influence of Bertrand Russell +Gibbs stat mech on Wiener's belief chance is part of “warp & weft” of physics + his prescient AI concerns 16d
Through Oscillating Chemicals, Your Brain Cells Might be Measuring Themselves
Physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com 20d 2 tweets
How does your right arm know to be as long as your left? What tells your body how tall you are? Why does a giraffe’s neck grow tall, as it...
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Jessica Flack Accessible write-up on using chemical oscillations to make global measurements Paper motivating the work by Nobel Prize winner Laughlin on how D'Arcy Thompson's "length problem" could be solved w sound 17d
Critical waves and the length problem of biology
PNAS 17d 1 tweets
This paper invokes physical principles to answer the question of why pure reaction–diffusion ideas do not produce a satisfactory explanation of biological growth and form. Two ideas have been missing. One is that oscillation is necessary to achieve...
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Jessica Flack Accessible write-up on using chemical oscillations to make global measurements Paper motivating the work by Nobel Prize winner Laughlin on how D'Arcy Thompson's "length problem" could be solved w sound 17d
The sound of an axon's growth
arXiv.org 17d 1 tweets
Axons are linear processes of nerve cells that can range from a few tens of micrometers up to meters in length. In addition to external cues, the length of an axon is also regulated by unknown internal mechanisms. Molecular motors have been...
Jessica Flack Downward causation & global estimates: How do organisms measure themselves--know how big they are or what their internal pressure is? Cool study finds molecular motors generate chemical oscillations the frequencies of which provide info abt size 17d
Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites
Webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu 21d 6 tweets
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Jessica Flack Information processing & signaling: Interesting paper by provides taxonomy + distribution of deceptive online advertising practices + explores how these "dark patterns" influence decision making Paper: 18d
How E-Commerce Sites Manipulate You Into Buying Things You May Not Want
Nytimes.com 22d 15 tweets
Research released this week finds that many online retailers use so-called dark patterns to influence what shoppers decide to purchase. Cracking down on the practice could be difficult.
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Jessica Flack Information processing & signaling: Interesting paper by provides taxonomy + distribution of deceptive online advertising practices + explores how these "dark patterns" influence decision making Paper: 18d
Deep Focus: Fred & Ginger
Film Comment 67d 1 tweets
Lighter than air: Astaire and Rogers have still got it after all these years, as proven in Film Society’s new complete retrospective
War and Chance: Assessing Uncertainty in International Politics (Bridging the Gap): Jeffrey A. Friedman: 9780190938024: Amazon.com: Books
Amazon.com 40d 2 tweets
War and Chance: Assessing Uncertainty in International Politics (Bridging the Gap) [Jeffrey A. Friedman] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Uncertainty surrounds every major decision in international politics. Yet there is almost...
On Edge | Edge.org
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Rik Allen & Shelley Muzylowski Allen | Blown Glass Art & Multi-Media Sculpture 27d 1 tweets
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Ryan Bingham "Boracho Station" Live at Gruene Hall
YouTube 27d 1 tweets
Ryan Bingham "Boracho Station" recorded live at Greune Hall March 13, 2013. Filmed and edited by TourGigs www.tourgigs.com From the album "Mescalito" (C) 200...
Jessica Flack Such a great song: Boracho Station by 27d
GWCSS at 25: The ‘best department in the world’
Santafe.edu 28d 1 tweets
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Do Brains Operate at a Tipping Point? New Clues and Complications
Quanta Magazine 36d 6 tweets
New experimental results simultaneously advance and challenge the theory that the brain’s network of neurons balances on the knife-edge between two phases.
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Jessica Flack Our brains appear to operate near a critical point where it easy to shift bw diff states. Whether this is adaptive & what the states are has not been clear. New work discussed in a nice essay sggsts brains are poised bw coherence & disorder 29d