TOM HOLROYD – In school physics classrooms the world over, students are taught to use equations such as dx/dt = f(x, p) + H.O.T. to model nature mathematically. In such equations,  f(x, p) is some linear function, and H.O.T. stands for Higher Order Terms, or in other words, stand for nonlinear terms of the mathematical model.  Quite often when applied to real world scenarios, analysis of this kind of equation focuses...

OLAF SPORNS – “The division of our world (natural and social) into distinct contraries or opposites has become almost universal practice in most fields of human endeavor and inquiry, including science. Undeniably, imposing such divisions on space and time, wave and particle, order and chaos, action and perception, or organism and environment have enabled significant progress in our scientific understanding of...

J. A. SCOTT KELSO & DAVID A. ENGSTRØM – have written The Complementary Nature to summarize their research plan. In this book, Kelso and Engstrøm contend that ubiquitous contraries are complementary and propose a comprehensive, empirically-based scientific theory of how the polarized world and the world in between can be reconciled. They nominate the squiggle (~), as the symbolic punctuation for reconciled...