Category: Discussion
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Cooperation through exchange: an emerging paradigm
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“Evolution,” in the words of biologist Martin Nowak, “is based on a fierce competition between individuals and should therefore reward only selfish behaviour. Every gene, every cell, and every organism should be designed to promote its own evolutionary success at the expense […]
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LML Discussions: lessons to learn about modelling from the COVID experience
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Scientists regularly use models, which help make their thinking definite, specific, and easier to challenge, test and refine. Scientists know that models always have shortcomings. There’s no such thing as “modelling the real thing,” only various approximations thereof, which may be more […]
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General resource: useful articles on the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic (last updated 8 April 2020)
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This blog post lists some further articles and scientific papers which may be of interest in following the unfolding coronavirus epidemic. It has been assembled from suggestions made by LML Fellows and associates.
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General resource: useful articles on the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic (last updated 31 March 2020)
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This blog post lists a number of articles and scientific papers which may be of interest in following the unfolding coronavirus epidemic. It has been assembled from suggestions made by LML Fellows and associates.
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General resource: useful articles on the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic (last updated 24 March 2020)
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This blog post lists a number of articles and scientific papers which may be of interest in following the unfolding coronavirus epidemic. It has been assembled from suggestions made by LML Fellows and associates.
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Biological movement and the Lévy flight hypothesis
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How do animals move through their environment as they search for resources, or try to satisfy other natural goals? Over the past two decades, researchers have examined this question using real world data for organisms such as albatross, marine predators and bees, […]
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Improving the art of earthquake prediction
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In Southern California, Japan, Indonesia or other areas around the world prone to earthquakes, people at risk face vast uncertainty about when, where, and how strong the next one will be.
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Heteroclinic networks – probing the hidden influence of unstable fixed points
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The stable fixed points of a dynamical system attract obvious interest as potential resting points, or final states. Without continued forcing, for example, a physical pendulum will ultimately end up hanging motionless in the downward position.