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Biological evolution, says Kauffman, is just one example of a self-organizing system that teeter-totters on the knife edge between order and chaos, "a grand compromise between structure and surprise." Too much order makes change impossible; too much chaos and there can be no continuity. But since balancing acts...
Perhaps the most disturbing idea proposed in Star's editorial is that the black people's discontent with America today stems solely from their resentment of prior incidents of racism. Star himself admits that racial biases have long prevented equality of opportunity. "Exactly what is the black community mad about...
Can both strategies--to engulf and to disgorge--actually be reconciled in today's business world? Richard D'Aveni, a professor of corporate strategy at Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business, sees plenty of room for deals along the lines of both the Time Warner merger and the AT...
Evolution designed our minds and bodies to maximize the potential for getting our own genes into the next generation. But the same forces now fuel a growing population that is rapidly destroying the natural world. The reproductive behavior that helped us survive as a species may no longer be beneficial...
Artistic license has expired on shtick like that, and further critical explication of the separate realms of fact and fiction can no longer insulate the comedy from the offense . But the sexual obsession and obscenities are intrinsic to Sabbath's exaggerated character as a dirty old man. There is much...