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NECSI Book on Food Prices Research
This book includes two papers on the role of high food prices in riots and the causes of high food prices.
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The Food Crises and Political Instability in North Africa and the Middle East
A new study from NECSI shows that the timing of outbreaks of violence rocking North Africa and the Middle East is linked to global food prices.
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Causes of High Food Prices:
Speculators and Ethanol Production
NECSI releases a new paper on the surge in world food prices, calling on private and public policy makers to recognize the serious impact that price spikes in food bring to the world′s most vulnerable populations.
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The Science of Peace
Switzerland and Yugoslavia both have separated cultural, linguistic and religious groups; they are not integrated well-mixed societies. Surprisingly, the main difference between them seems to be whether the boundaries are in the right place or not.
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Stopping the Market Crash
NECSI research played a key role in stopping the market collapse in March 2009, as Congressman Barney Frank, Chairman of the Financial Services Committee, took action to stop the collapse using NECSI recommendations.
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The Science of Ethnic Violence
NECSI has developed a model to predict the locations of violence from the spatial distribution of ethnic groups.
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The Science of Global Crises
NECSI responds to increasing global vulnerabilities and cascading worldwide crises
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Healthcare Costs: the Road Map
Decision makers in all sectors see a mounting crisis in delivering affordable healthcare. The health-care system is clearly not working: How can we fix it? In this series, we provide eight scientifically-based steps toward reducing costs and improving quality.
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The Future of New Orleans
NECSI President, Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam, tours the Army Corps of Engineers’ efforts to protect New Orleans from hurricanes.
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The Evolution of Cooperation
Evolution through natural selection is intensely competitive, yet, altruistic cooperation is remarkably common. It is found in social insects, human society, and even cells of multicellular organisms. Why individuals cooperate is one of the central puzzles of evolutionary theory. Here we describe advances in understanding the evolution of cooperation.
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* Movies Mobile App Released
Researchers at the New England Complex Systems Institute have used network theory to put together a network of the top 500 movies.
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History: NECSI and the 2004 Red Sox Parade
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Making Things Work
Making Things Work describes how science can help solve the problems facing us today in healthcare, education, military conflict, ethnic violence and terrorism, and third world development.
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Twitter Rising
The Transition from Search to Social Media
- NECSI Book on Food Prices Research
- Link Between High Food
Prices and Unrest - Food Prices due to
Speculators and Ethanol - The Science of Peace
- Stopping the Market Crash
- The Science of Ethnic Violence
- The Science of Global Crises
- Healthcare Costs: the Road Map
- The Future of New Orleans
- The Evolution of Cooperation
- * Movies Mobile App Released
- History: NECSI and the
2004 Red Sox Parade
Scientific Research and Applications
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- ethnic violence
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News
Year in Review--> News Archive- Yaneer Bar-Yam to speak at 22nd Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences Conference
- NECSI food price update warns of crisis by 2013
- Bar-Yam seminar on education & individual differences
- NECSI maps Twitter news-sharing network
- NECSI food prices research among top ten scientific discoveries in 2011
- Statement on Complex Systems and OWS
- NECSI shows: (1) high food prices due to speculators and ethanol, (2) link between food prices and riots
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