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Memetics

Stumbleupon Review of : http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMES.html From the page: “Meme: an information pattern, held in an individual’s memory, which is capable of being copied to another individual’s memory. Memetics: the theoretical and empirical science that studies the replication, spread and evolution … Continue reading →

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Psychology of Cyberspace – Gender Swapping

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/genderswap.html From the page: “The beauty, and sometimes misfortune, of the internet is that it offers the opportunity for people to experiment with their identity. One way to do that is to switch one’s gender to … Continue reading →

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socio.demon.co.uk/magazine/magazine.html

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.socio.demon.co.uk/magazine/magazine.html From the page: “Cybersociology is a non-profit multi-disciplinary webzine dedicated to the critical discussion of the internet, cyberspace, cyberculture and life online”

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Gamasutra – Features – &Soapbox: Why Virtual Worlds are Designed By Newbie

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20041103/bartle_pfv.htm From the page: “Annual income £20/-/-, annual expenditure £19/19/6, result happiness. Annual income £20/-/-, annual expenditure £20/-/6, result misery.” The rise and fall of Virtual Empires. How decadence set in.

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Index of /hybridvigor/issue1

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.college.emory.edu/hybridvigor/issue1/ The science of love.

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New Scientist Breaking News &045; Why it is hard to share the wealth

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7107 The rich are getting richer while the poor remain poor. If you doubt it, ponder these numbers from the US, a country widely considered meritocratic, where talent and hard work are thought to be enough … Continue reading →

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[cond-mat/0503078] Self-similarity of complex networks

Stumbleupon Review of : http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0503078 Complex networks have been studied extensively due to their relevance to many real systems as diverse as the World-Wide-Web (WWW), the Internet, energy landscapes, biological and social networks \cite{ab-review,mendes,vespignani,newman,amaral}. A large number of real networks … Continue reading →

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New Scientist Premium- The bubble that ate the universe – Features

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18524901.500 From the page: “Space-time fizzes with bubbles popping in and out of existence all across the cosmos – they could destroy the universe and everything in it THROUGHOUT the universe, space-time is fizzing. Bubbles pop … Continue reading →

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Complexity International

Stumbleupon Review of : http://journal-ci.csse.monash.edu.au/ From the page: “Complexity International is a refereed journal for scientific papers dealing with any area of complex systems research.”

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The Foundation for P2P Alternatives – P2P Foundation

Stumbleupon Review of : http://p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Manifesto From the page: “Manifesto From P2pFoundation Peer to Peer and Human Evolution On “the P2P relational dynamic” as the premise of the next civilizational stage” The following essay describes the emergence, or expansion, of a … Continue reading →

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