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Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread--The Lessons from a New Science Alex Pentland
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)

At two new books, The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move? But interestingly, there is a large opposition to this trend of hardening the social sciences, and this opposition is particularly pronounced towards physicists who take their knowledge to work on data about social systems. Feb 18, 2014 - Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread—The Lessons from a New Science (Penguin Press, 2014). May 4, 2014 - I am part way through Social Physics: how good ideas spread - the lessons from a new science by MIT academic and entrepreneur Alex Pentland. Dec 29, 2013 - Amnesiac reformers, pumped full of certitude, have pushed forward with “new science,” “new math” and “new history” curricula many times over the past century believing that the content in of itself–particularly delivered by academic Should teachers concentrate on teaching essential subject-matter (e.g., biology, chemistry, physics) to unknowing students or have students act as biologists, chemists, and physicists, posing hunches, inquiring, and solving problems? By Patrick Tucker, and Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread — The Lessons From a New Science by Alex Pentland. Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) emerge as a new high potential material class. Apr 11, 2011 - This is an introduction to the Materials that do not yet exist today, addapted for social media. Download the full report here (PDF version, 1.15MB) .. 5 days ago - Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread—The Lessons from a New Science (The Penguin Press, 2014), by Alex “Sandy” Pentland, reviewed by Steve Gladis. Mar 4, 2014 - In a new book, “Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread — The Lessons from a New Science,” Alex “Sandy” Pentland, the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and the director of the …read more. Feb 17, 2014 - In fact, if you want to read more about sociometric tagging to measure engagement, and other group tools, you might want to read: “Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread: The Lessons from a New Science” by MIT Prof. But is using a trendy pattern the best way to do so? A big part of my fear is anecdotal. Jan 4, 2014 - Spreading the message of science and skepticism is vitally important. Apr 7, 2014 - Or so you'd think if you're a physicist. Research projects and prizes have been identified as effective instruments that can spread awareness, stimulate new ideas and the conception of new products, connect players along the value chain, and speed up access to market. The event was moderated by Ann R. The typical social experiment that lends itself to analysis will be in relatively small and well-controlled communities (say, testing the implementation of a new policy).