http://synapse9.com/blog How Nature makes things Simple is with Complex Systems, so Reading the Signals of Change in their Designs transports you out of the World of Explanations, for true Explorers drawing on a kind of Physics for Observing Independent things Behave. Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:09:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Please update your RSS feed subscription. The updated blog is Synapse9.com/signals and you need to go there and subscribe the RSS feed for it or subscribe from this RSS feed link. As of today 7/24/11, subscribers to this blog have missed 8 new posts on the new ... http://synapse9.com/blog/2011/10/30/move-rss-feed-subscription-to-new-blog/ My posts are now going to my updated blog. The updated blog is Synapse9.com/signals and you need to go there and subscribe the RSS feed for it or subscribe from this RSS feed link. As of today 7/24/11, subscribers to this blog have missed 8 new ... http://synapse9.com/blog/2011/07/24/please-update-your-rss-feed-for-new-blog/ I'll be switching from posting at "synapse9.com/blog" to "synapse9.com/signals" where I've installed a more functional blog. Nothing much fancy happening, but upgrading the tools of my original blog to Wordpress 3.1.3. You'll still find this collection of posts covering the past 6 years of comment and research ... http://synapse9.com/blog/2011/06/28/new-blog-site-coming/ What’s the cost of increasing investment when you’re already over-invested…?? Many organic and environmental systems display talents for taking care of themselves we could use, using internal steering to avoid approaching hazards and be responsive to change. In studying how they do it one comes across some wonderful new ... http://synapse9.com/blog/2011/06/26/defining-netgdp-for-steering-a-planet/ The Systems Energy Assessment (SEA) method of estimating the total energy use of businesses exposes a very large undercount compared to the standard method, commonly on the scale of 80%. That is due to the standard method not counting the energy needed to support the business services a business ... http://synapse9.com/blog/2011/06/19/the-wider-implications-of-systems-energy-assessment/ A somewhat better summary of my work that Rex Weyler found helpful started from a discussion titled "Are Stock Markets Ponzi Schemes or Real Wealth?". Rex wrote back: "This and the SEA presentation on your site are helpful. Thanks." I’m not sure what to think of it. ... http://synapse9.com/blog/2011/06/17/where-ive-gotten-so-far/ Aleks Jakulin is a systems scientist, entrepreneur and professor at Columbia University, a very interesting guy, who was invited to present at the June 2011 Foo Camp meeting of rising information space hackers and scientists. The invitation is to present the work of someone else, a nice twist, and ... http://synapse9.com/blog/2011/06/10/seminar-on-my-work-at-foo-camp/ There's a now famous study of progress in human welfare that betrays how humans are dazzled by positive images, and quite forget what we're looking at. Hans Rosling has traveled the world, presented at the TED talks many times and raised huge amounts of money for his work, ... http://synapse9.com/blog/2011/05/30/the-telling-mental-gap-at-gapminderorg/ The research paper is waiting for publication, with a special collection of Biophysical Economics papers on understanding EROI for business systems and depleting resources for Sustainability (MDPI). Copies of the paper, called "Systems Energy Assessment (SEA)" can be found at the Cornell physics archive, and at the ... http://synapse9.com/blog/2011/05/29/using-the-boundaries-of-net-energy-systems-to-study-working-units-of-nature/ An exchange with John Baez on his Azimuth blog. Phil Henshaw says: May 28, 2011 at 1:54 am I think the actual problem, and why it’s so intractable, is that our “resource management system” is designed to serve our financial system,… not the reverse. Our financial system is designed to create stable ... http://synapse9.com/blog/2011/05/29/whats-one-thing-everyone-could-do-to-slow-climate-change/