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  1. Santa Fe Institute's annual short course, Exploring Complexity, Sept. 14-16 at Stanford University. santafe.edu/education/scho…
  2. Part 2 of my Power Laws post: exploringcomplexity.blogspot.com
  3. A couple of new entries on my blog: "Keeping up with blogging" and "Scaling: What's all the fuss about power laws?" exploringcomplexity.blogspot.com
  4. Max is discussing his work on understanding the Egyptian revolution using social network analysis of Twitter data. #rethink @maksim2042
  5. Max Tsvetovat speaking on social networks at SFI / Krasnow short course. Book: Social Network Analysis for Startups #rethink @maxkim2042
  6. Upcoming SFI short courses: May, 2012: tuvalu.santafe.edu/events/worksho… September 2012: santafe.edu/education/scho…
  7. The Science of Complexity: Understanding the Global Financial Crisis krasnow.gmu.edu/soc/
  8. A "sustainable" scaling law: xkcd.com/1007/
  9. But does Lego Barbie think the math is hard? wired.com/wiredscience/2…
  10. New on my blog: "Top Ten Writing Errors (of My Students) in 2011". exploringcomplexity.blogspot.com
  11. My latest blog post: Discussion of “The Common Patterns of Nature” (by Steve Franks), part 1: exploringcomplexity.blogspot.com/2011/12/discus…
  12. Santa Fe Institute's summer research internship program for undergrads: santafe.edu/education/fell…
  13. Scott Page of U. Michigan is offering a free, on-line course on modeling in complex systems: modelthinker-class.org He's a terrific teacher.
  14. The Turing Fellowships and Scholarships Competition. Very nice fellowship for people not more than 10 yrs past Ph.D: mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/giv…
  15. Just put up new blog post: "We Have to Talk About Scaling". First in a series on scaling controversies. exploringcomplexity.blogspot.com
  16. SFI's Complex Systems Summer School, 2012: santafe.edu/education/scho…
  17. Very good short TED talk on evidence-based medicine: ted.com/talks/ben_gold…
  18. Ig Nobel prizes have been awarded! improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig…
  19. My blog on complexity: exploringcomplexity.blogspot.com. First post is on IBM's cognitive computing chips.