by Yaneer Bar-Yam, New England Complex Systems Institute, endcoronavirus.org, covidzero.us, covidactiongroup.net My fellow Americans There is nothing we can’t do together. Today I am presenting to you a science-based plan to eliminate the coronavirus from the United States. We can meet this challenge as we have met challenges before. We…

John W. Crawford, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, UK and Yaneer Bar-Yam, New England Complex Systems Institute, 277 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA The way we start out thinking about a problem shapes the solutions that we end up with. This is as true in physics as it is…

Exercise is a different strokes for different folks kind of thing. Here is a view from complexity science: There are two quantities that trade off against each other, complexity and scale. We can do things that are large scale and things that are more complex. Exercise is commonly divided into…

In our explorations of the world we have often discovered that the natural world may be described in terms of underlying simple objects, concepts, and laws of behavior (mechanics) and interactions. When we look still closer we see that these simple objects are composite objects whose internal structure may be…

Logic is the most fundamental framework of our understanding of the world in a formal language. The ability to say that a statement is true or false is basic to everything we know as mathematics. Despite its fundamental nature it is also difficult to understand fully. Formal logic is often…

Is formal logic a valid description of the world? I argue that it can’t be. Let’s start from an example. The statement: “Green traffic lights mean go,” is a simple statement that seems true. …

Consider the different places you can be in a house. Living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom. More specifically, consider each location to stand, sit or lie down. If there are several floors, then you can be in many different places on each floor. To get from one place to another…

By Alan L. Feld, Boston University School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, and Yaneer Bar-Yam, New England Complex Systems Institute, 277 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02458. For several decades, the idea that economic growth results from promoting investing that creates jobs has motivated changes in tax policies that…

The past decades have seen a series of economic recessions, the financial crisis, weak recoveries and increasing household debt. According to the New England Complex Systems Institute’s recent analysis of the US economy [1], policies for rapid and consistent economic growth, with widespread prosperity, are possible. We separated the savings/debt…