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Does a Crowd Ever Move as One?

Measured one way, a system built from separate parts is more complex as a whole than its parts added up, unless they move in step. A new calculation finds that the gap grows as parts are added; it does not average out. Press play and watch it open.

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The Tree Got a Rule.

Fall colors- trees get personhood in a Quebec municipality.

One more entry to a category that already includes corporations and ships. What changes, legally, when a tree joins the list of things that can hold rights

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