Don't just do something, stand there! Reflections on the counterintuitive behavior of complex systems, seen through the eyes of System Dynamics, Systems Thinking and simulation.
Well, at least me and a few fellow Montanans. There’s an earthquake swarm in Yellowstone right now. The supervolcano is sure to blow us all to Kingdom Come. This elk my wife met seems unconcerned though:
A guy at Wolfram made a nice visualization example out of the data, though it’s not exactly a gripping movie.
I’ll be there next week, but COP14 is already underway.
Nature has an editorial and an interview with Yvo de Boer, UNFCC executive secretary.
COP14 HQ
Poznan city guide
Local governments are here.
Twitter PoznanWeb and 350.org and DeSmogBlog
Topix newswire
From Econbrowser: “The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research announced today that the eleventh U.S. postwar recession began in December of 2007.” Of course, if you live in a general equilibrium model, you already knew that.
I’m off to Copenhagen for a week, with Drew Jones & Beth Sawin of SI – getting ready for Poznan and Copenhagen 2009.
Via Prometheus.
Adam Stein of TerraPass has some interesting thoughts at WorldChanging.
I stopped by the county offices here in Montana to register my car. SpongeBob Squarepants was wandering down the sidewalk. More amazingly, there was a line of early voters stretching out the door of the Clerk’s office, down the hall, and up the stairs to the second floor. The motor vehicle registrar told me that 20,000 people have registered to vote in the last few weeks. That’s 1/4 of the population. It looks like turnout is going to be huge.
I hope the system can keep up. It seems reasonable to think that many jurisdictions have become habituated to low turnout, and simply don’t have the capacity to handle everyone exercising their rights.
Vote early, vote often.
