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

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. But is using a trendy pattern the best way to do so? Feb 18, 2014 - How do technological advances affect the spread of new ideas? May 27, 2014 - "In his book "Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread - The Lessons from a New Science," he argues that human communication behaviors follow the rules of mathematics. Jan 4, 2014 - Spreading the message of science and skepticism is vitally important. The basic The idea is that good models often throw out lots of details that are not important to the fundamental process of interest and that through such abstraction one can find great generality. Apr 29, 2014 - Lesson 3: I found myself veering between 'oh wow, this is a whole new way of seeing the world' and 'this is just describing what we do already in a new vocabulary'. Feb 25, 2014 - And in his new book Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread—The Lessons from a New Science Pentland takes time out to catch us up on his findings. 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. A big part of my fear is anecdotal. Jun 30, 2008 - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC: New York, USA, 2007 "This book is about wealth, power and politics, class hatred, and racial segregation. May 2, 2014 - Pentland's book "Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread--The Lessons from a New Science" provides a full coverage of his viewpoints. It is about fads, fashions, It is written in an easy to read non-academic style and assumes no prior knowledge of either physics or social science. Dec 16, 2013 - Here's a novel idea that could flip high-school science education on its head: Instead of teaching biology as the first course for high-school freshmen, start instead with physics.