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A Timely Fix for a Grand Theory of Nature

By Veronique Greenwood
March 11, 2016
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A disarmingly simple model of ecology does everything well — except predict how rapidly nature can change. Can it become more realistic while still avoiding all of biology’s messy complexities?

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The Thermodynamic Theory of Ecology

By Veronique Greenwood
September 3, 2014
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Nature’s large-scale patterns emerge from incomplete surveys that borrow ideas from information theory.

Data Driven: The New Big Science

Imagining Data Without Division

By Thomas Lin
September 30, 2013
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As science dives headlong into an ocean of data, the demands of large-scale interdisciplinary collaborations are growing increasingly acute.


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