Geoffrey B. West: The Universal Laws of Growth and Pace
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The Positive Feedback Mechanism of Science
Scientist: One of the marvelous things about science is that we predict things that haven't been measured. He says social networks are a measure of somehow the degree of interaction as a function of city size. "If we could measure independently how often people interact in cities and plot it versus the function of citysize, it should just look like one of this fall on top of that," he said.
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