Jul 26, 2022Member-onlyScience as an intergenerational endeavourIt has been a long time since anyone really knew what year it is, all we know is that civilization collapsed, then someone found this ancient scripture conserved in one of those big buildings in the city. …Science6 min readScience6 min read
Jul 12, 2022Why I’m not so excited by the James Webb telescope?Why I’m not so excited by the James Webb telescope? None of my parents got bachelor degrees, my dad studied some semesters of electrical engineering but got trapped in leftist-communist parasitic ideas and the so called (now wrongly mystified) 1968 “students” movement that ended tragically with the terrible Tlatelolco massacre.James Webb Telescope4 min readJames Webb Telescope4 min read
Jul 8, 2022Science as Levy flightsScience as Levy flights We know from data, models and eco-evolutionary arguments that animals that moves in complex environments looking for resources (i.e. spider monkeys looking for food) do it in what is called a Lévy flight, which is a random walk type in which the step-lengths have a Lévy…Science5 min readScience5 min read
Apr 22, 2022Complejidad: Qué es la criticalidad?Finalmente parece ser que el concepto de criticalidad comienza a recibir la atención que merece….en una reciente convocatoria para publicar artículos en el tema, uno de los más connotados científicos en el tema de la complejidad, S. …Complexity2 min readComplexity2 min read
Apr 21, 2022Choque de dos sistemas (con comentarios)La guerra en Ucrania es un enfrentamiento entre dos sistemas, uno moderno, legalista, descentralizado y multicéfalo; el otro arcaico, nacionalista, centralizado y monocéfalo (Esta es una traducción con comentarios propios, no revisados por el autor original, de una versión compatible con los derechos de autor de la conversación de Nassim Nicholas Taleb con Laetitia Strauch-Bonart publicada en el periódico francés l’Express).Taleb13 min readTaleb13 min read
Nov 26, 2021Naturalized cities or urban ecosystems.Oliver López-Corona & Elvia Ramírez-Carrillo To cope the global loss of wildlife, the cities of everyone is trying to create open areas and re-naturalize their neighborhoods, in what many understand as an effort to return a region to its natural and uncultivated form, while also including new architectural and landscape…Ecology4 min readEcology4 min read
Nov 26, 2021Ciudades naturalizadas o ecosistemas urbanos.Oliver López-Corona & Elvia Ramírez-Carrillo Para luchar contra la pérdida global de vida silvestre, las ciudades de todo el mundo están intentando crear áreas abiertas y renaturalizar sus vecindarios, en lo que muchos entienden como un esfuerzo por devolver una región a su forma natural y sin cultivar, al tiempo…Ecologia4 min readEcologia4 min read
Aug 14, 2021Hijo, toma todos los riesgos que quieras pero neto evita estoUna guia para que los padres piensen en los riesgos básicos no ingenuos que se necesitan transmitir a nuestros hijos, desde una perspectiva de sistemas complejos.Padres E Hijos5 min readPadres E Hijos5 min read
Aug 14, 2021Son, take all risks you want, but you really don’t f**k with thisA cheat sheet for parents to think about core non naive risk taking needed to transmit to our kids, from a complex systems perspective.Parenting5 min readParenting5 min read
Apr 1, 2021Survive in Extremistan.How to be a non-naive paranoid, when it is required to be paranoid. Oliver López-Corona Abstract To survive repeated exposure to long-tailed risks including absorbent barriers (risk of ruin), it is necessary to act in a precautionary and anticipatory manner in what we might call non-naive “paranoia.” In this essay I…Complexity20 min readComplexity20 min read
