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Critical Mass: How one thing leads to another by Philip Ball
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Critical Mass: How one thing leads to another

by Philip Ball

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ktruh in 888 Challenge : Favourite Book in Each Category? (Nov 25, 2008, 2:23pm)

... to describe Simpson's ordeal in the Peruvian Andes alone after a fall smashes his leg. Issues: An easier choice with Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball. Social behavior as the result or how it has to do with physics. Next in favorite series: My favorite is Kag ...

ktruh in 888 Challenge : ktruh's 888 challenge (Apr 20, 2008, 8:50am)

Critical Mass, written by physicist Phillip Ball, addresses how physics concepts can help us understand society, particularly emerging behaviors. For example, Ball looks at how biological structures and snowflakes form and how what we know about that formation can inform us about how cities and ...

ktruh in 888 Challenge : ktruh's 888 challenge (Mar 23, 2008, 11:43am)

Issues 1. Memo to the President Elect by Madeleine Albright 2. World Without Us by Alan Weisman 3. Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Phillip Ball (finished) 4. Checkbook and the Cruise Missile by Arundhati Roy 5. Every War Has Two Losers by William Stafford (fini ...

buddahboy in Science! : Science! Message Board (Dec 14, 2006, 4:24pm)

One book I'd definitly recommend is Critical Mass by Philip Ball - it's a very good introduction to complexity science, which is kind of the big new fashionable area in science (arguably too fashionable as the university I work at's just employed about 10 new academics in it - but then I'm ...

timspalding in Recommend Site Improvements : When posting goes wrong (Sep 28, 2006, 6:55am)

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