Systems Community of Inquiry | Site Wide Activity http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/feed Site Wide Activity Feed Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:30:01 +0000 http://buddypress.org/?v=1.5.2 en http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2993/ David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists: Credibility gap in "No Need to Panic About Global Warning" […] http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2993/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:30:01 +0000 David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists Credibility gap in "No Need to Panic About Global Warning" article in WSJ signed by 16 scientists? Opinion piece at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204301404577171531838421366.html

Repudiation about sources by D.R. Tucker "Scared of Science" at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/d-r-tucker/wall-street-journal-global-warming_b_1240195.html , citing Peter Gleick | "Remarkable Editorial Bias on Climate Science at the Wall Street Journal" | Jan. 27, 2012 | Forbes at http://www.forbes.com/sites/petergleick/2012/01/27/remarkable-editorial-bias-on-climate-science-at-the-wall-street-journal/

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]]> http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2992/ Danny became a registered member http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2992/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:11:04 +0000 Danny became a registered member

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]]> http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2988/ David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists: At INCOSE IW, Janet Singer (as ISSS VP Research and Pubs) […] http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2988/ Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:04:18 +0000 David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists At INCOSE IW, Janet Singer (as ISSS VP Research and Pubs) was tasked to lead a subcommittee on describing Systems Thinking, Systems Science and Systems Approach for the INCOSE Systems Engineering Book of Knowledge. Other projects (e.g. ontology) may also be involved.

See workshop at https://sites.google.com/site/syssciwg/meetings/workshop-2012-january . If you're interested in contributing, speak up to Janet or myself!

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]]> http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2986/ David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists: What should dialogue designers know about inquiring systems? […] http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2986/ Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:51:31 +0000 David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists What should dialogue designers know about inquiring systems? Workshop recap at http://bit.ly/AeetP6, slides http://bit.ly/A2him0 . Dialogue with Design session in Toronto

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]]> http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2981/ Stefan Blachfellner posted an update in the group Systemicists: You might be already aware: Nevertheless do not miss this […] http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2981/ Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:11:02 +0000 Stefan Blachfellner posted an update in the group Systemicists You might be already aware: Nevertheless do not miss this unique opportunity. The next European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research take place in April 2012 in Vienna, Austria. There are great offerings, open calls for symposia, submission for extended abstracts still open until 20th January, early bird registration until 31st January 2012, and a promising PhD colloquium & award with a monetary prize for the best paper! Have a look at http://www.emcsr.net

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]]> http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2980/ David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists: Systems biology, seeing properties in organisms not in the […] http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2980/ Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:07:28 +0000 David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists Systems biology, seeing properties in organisms not in the parts, arose from advances in computing in larger datasets, says David Weinberger.

> In 2002, when Hiroaki Kitano wrote a cover story on systems biology for Science magazine — a formal recognition of the growing importance of this young field — he said: “The major reason it is gaining renewed interest today is that progress in molecular biology … enables us to collect comprehensive datasets on system performance and gain information on the underlying molecules.” Of course, the only reason we’re able to collect comprehensive datasets is that computers have gotten so big and powerful. Systems biology simply was not possible in the Age of Books.

See highlights of article at http://ingbrief.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/systems-biology-based-on-computer-based-datasets-to-know-but-not-understand-david-weinberger-the-atlantic/ .

Edited excerpt as “To Know, but Not Understand” | David Weinberger | Jan. 3, 2012 | The Atlantic at http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/to-know-but-not-understand-david-weinberger-on-science-and-big-data/250820/.

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]]> http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2954/ Timo posted an update: My essay: http://timotiikeri.wordpress.com/ Happy new year mates! http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2954/ Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:09:50 +0000 Timo posted an update My essay: http://timotiikeri.wordpress.com/
Happy new year mates!

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]]> http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2953/ David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists: The influences between culture and education in a society […] http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2953/ Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:53:11 +0000 David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists The influences between culture and education in a society are circular. "Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success today, was never excellence. It was equity" says Pasi Sahlberg, director of the Finnish Ministry of Education's Center for International Mobility.

"What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success" | Anu Partanen | Dec. 29, 2011 | The Atlantic at http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/250564/

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]]> http://syscoi.com/commons/groups/systemicists/forum/topic/cs0004-day-3-201111-systemic-thinking-of-sustainable-communities-aalto-university/#post-400 Timo replied to the forum topic CS0004 Day 3, 2011/11 Systemic Thinking of Sustainable Communities (Aalto University) in the group Systemicists http://syscoi.com/commons/groups/systemicists/forum/topic/cs0004-day-3-201111-systemic-thinking-of-sustainable-communities-aalto-university/#post-400 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:12:55 +0000 Timo replied to the forum topic CS0004 Day 3, 2011/11 Systemic Thinking of Sustainable Communities (Aalto University) in the group Systemicists http://timotiikeri.wordpress.com/
My 3rd post

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]]> http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2947/ Roman Lihhavtshuk posted an update in the group Systemicists: My essay and interactive tool about the way to connect dots […] http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2947/ Sun, 25 Dec 2011 10:15:10 +0000 Roman Lihhavtshuk posted an update in the group Systemicists My essay and interactive tool about the way to connect dots between different theories by using systems thinking http://www.dip.ee/systems/
Merry Christmas!

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]]> http://syscoi.com/commons/2011/12/upgrade-site/ Dan Barber wrote a new post, Site upgrade complete http://syscoi.com/commons/2011/12/upgrade-site/ Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:11:08 +0000 Dan Barber wrote a new post, Site upgrade complete I've completed the site upgrade to Wordpress 3.3 and Buddypress 1.5.2.  To keep the three column look on Wordpress pages (like About, Hints, etc), I created a 3 column page template.  There is an issue between […]

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]]> http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2863/ David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists: In school, losing cursive writing and long division seems […] http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2863/ Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:24:46 +0000 David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists: In school, losing cursive writing and long division seems like civilization in decline.

>WHAT’S IN: iPad therapy [....] Twitter assignments [....] Smartboard MacGyvers [....]
>WHAT’S OUT: Cursive writing [....] Long division [....] Computer labs [....]

The print edition also included WHAT'S ODD: Wikipedia U. [...] Robot Teachers [....]

Main article at "iPads are in, cursive is out (and other education trends)" Tamara Baluja | Nov. 30 | Globe and Mail at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/primary-to-secondary/ipads-are-in-cursive-is-out-and-other-education-trends/article2254353/ .

Poll on Wikipedia Education Program at "Vote: Are Wikipedia articles an education hit or miss?" at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/vote-are-robot-teachers-an-education-hit-or-miss/article2253253/ .

Poll on Robot Teachers at "Vote: Are robot teachers an education hit or miss?" at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/vote-are-robot-teachers-an-education-hit-or-miss/article2253253/ .

More on Wikipedia Education Program at http://blog.wikimedia.org/tag/wikipedia-education-program/ .

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]]> http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2854/ David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists: "Systems Thinking in a Bar" blog post leads to […] http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2854/ Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:00:18 +0000 David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists: "Systems Thinking in a Bar" blog post leads to @jurgenappelo "Complexity Thinking or Systems Thinking ++" breezy 191-slide presentation. References to Russell Ackoff, Dave Snowden, Ralph Stacey, Donella Meadows, Peter Senge, Michael C. Jackson.

Blog post at http://www.noop.nl/2011/11/systems-thinking-in-a-bar.html , slides at http://www.slideshare.net/jurgenappelo/complexity-thinking . Via @ironick at https://plus.google.com/117735783041226205402/posts/L7McywG9o2c

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]]> http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2853/ David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists: Obliquity: those who succeed the most are those who take the […] http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2853/ Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:18:03 +0000 David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists: Obliquity: those who succeed the most are those who take the oblique path, says John Kay.
> [In] John Kay’s Obliquity ... The veteran Oxford University economist carefully examines the pathways that people and organizations follow to success, and finds, over and over, that those who succeed the most are those who take the oblique path. “If you want to go in one direction,” he writes, “the best route may involve going in another.”
> The companies that make the largest profits are not the ones that have profit maximization as their main goal, but rather those that try to do something well. The people who have the most wealth are not those who set out to become wealthy, but often those who have avoided money-making opportunities. The people found to be most happy are not those who have pursued happiness, but those who have struggled against challenges.

This reference was surfaced, with a comparison of styles by William Hague and John Baird, at "The direct approach isn’t always most effective" | Doug Saunders | Nov. 26, 2011 | Globe and Mail at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/the-direct-approach-isnt-always-most-effective/article2249830/

The British economist John Kay can be found at http://www.johnkay.com/

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]]> http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2852/ David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists: Beyond the paleo diet, six elements of the Paleolithic […] http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2852/ Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:35:11 +0000 David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists: Beyond the paleo diet, six elements of the Paleolithic lifestyle (Pedro Carrera-Bastos)
> DON’T JUST EAT IT – LIVE IT
Here are six key elements of the Paleolithic lifestyle, according to Pedro Carrera-Bastos, a Swedish health researcher specializing in the effects of “ancestral” diets, and his colleagues.
> 1. SUNSHINE
Getting enough vitamin D is crucial to bone health, and may also play a role in preventing cardiovascular disease and some cancers. [....]
> 2. SLEEP
Go to sleep when it’s dark, get up when it’s light. [....]
> 3. NO POLLUTION
An obvious one – but easier said than done in the modern world.
> 4. ACUTE STRESS
The typical hunter-gatherer life punctuated long periods of low stress with short bouts of acute stress that triggered the fight-or-flight response. In contrast, modern office workers often show signs of chronically elevated stress, which can have consequences such as elevated blood pressure and a weakened immune system.
> 5. PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Sure, paleo folks got more exercise than we do. But what kind? [....]
> 6. FRESH, UNPROCESSED FOOD
... modern hunter-gatherers typically get only 35 per cent of their calories from meat, with the rest derived from plants.

The infographic is unfortunately missing in the paper edition, "The Paleo Lifestyle: Should You Go Caveman?" | Alex Hutchinson | Nov. 21, 2011 | Globe and Mail at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/health-nutrition/nutrition-features/is-the-caveman-lifestyle-a-healthy-choice/article2241453/ . One of the six diagrams by Trish McAlaster (on stress) appears at http://sweatscience.com/paleo-the-pace-of-evolution-and-chronic-stress/

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]]> http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2849/ David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists: The magic of diasporas: Immigrant networks are a rare bright […] http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2849/ Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:14:11 +0000 David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists: The magic of diasporas: Immigrant networks are a rare bright spark in the world economy. Rich countries should welcome them.
> Diaspora networks—of Huguenots, Scots, Jews and many others—have always been a potent economic force, but the cheapness and ease of modern travel has made them larger and more numerous than ever before. There are now 215m first-generation migrants around the world: that’s 3% of the world’s population. If they were a nation, it would be a little larger than Brazil. There are more Chinese people living outside China than there are French people in France. Some 22m Indians are scattered all over the globe. Small concentrations of ethnic and linguistic groups have always been found in surprising places—Lebanese in west Africa, Japanese in Brazil and Welsh in Patagonia, for instance—but they have been joined by newer ones, such as west Africans in southern China.
> These networks of kinship and language make it easier to do business across borders (see article). They speed the flow of information ...
> Diasporas also help spread ideas. [....]
> Diasporas spread money, too. [...]

See "The magic of diasporas" | Nov. 19, 2011 | The Economist at http://www.economist.com/node/21538742

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]]> http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2848/ David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists: Nice guys can finish first: Social networks aid cooperation, […] http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2848/ Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:17:30 +0000 David Ing posted an update in the group Systemicists: Nice guys can finish first: Social networks aid cooperation, discourage selfishness (David Rand, Harvard)

>... in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the research is among the first studies to examine social interaction as a fluid, ever-changing process. Previous studies of complex social networks largely used static snapshots of groups to examine how members were or were not connected. [....]

> What this is showing is that a key aspect of real-world social networks is the dynamic component. The point of this paper is to say that those networks are always shifting, and they’re not shifting in random ways. [....]

>The findings, Rand said, showed that players re-wired their social networks in intriguing ways that helped both themselves and the group they were in. They were more willing to make new connections or maintain existing connections with those who acted generously, and break connections with those who behaved selfishly.

> “Because people have control over who they are interacting with, people are more likely to form connections with people who are cooperative, and much more likely to break those links with people who are not,” Rand said. “Basically, what it boils down to is that you’d better be a nice guy, or else you’re going to get cut off.”

See "Nice guys can finish first" | Peter Ruell | Nov. 14, 2011 | Harvard Science at http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/11/social-networks/

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]]> http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2843/ Olli posted an update: I got into right mood... here you go, my insights on how to […] http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2843/ Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:07:14 +0000 Olli posted an update: I got into right mood... here you go, my insights on how to build a good terrarium using systems thinking:
http://bit.ly/rKggSb

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]]> http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2842/ Olli posted an update: Howdy ho! I share couple of thoughts on learning […] http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2842/ Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:01:32 +0000 Olli posted an update: Howdy ho!
I share couple of thoughts on learning platforms:
http://bit.ly/ufF5WS
Enjoy!

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]]> http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2833/ Mridu posted an update: http://mridumehta.wordpress.com/ My 2nd post - India, […] http://syscoi.com/commons/activity/p/2833/ Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:07:56 +0000 Mridu posted an update: http://mridumehta.wordpress.com/
My 2nd post - India, Collapse and Resilience

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