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Understanding Emergence
Emergent behaviour seems to be characteristic of the `complex systems that currently feature in Mathematics, Computer Science, the Physical Sciences and Philosophy.
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Taking Evolutionary Biology Beyond the Gene
Evolution depends on the copying of genetic information (DNA) with the incorporation of changes (mutations) that are inherited by subsequent generations.
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Modelling Memory: From Statistical Mechanics to Behavioural Economics and Beyond
Memory plays an important role in many real-life situations; in particular, it is obvious that remembering past experiences affects future choices.
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Developmental origins of racial and gender bias in very young children and how it unfolds
This project addresses how, and how early, racial and gender biases emerge in young children and how they are shaped by the linguistic and social communities (families, schools, neighborhoods) in which children are raised.
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Sleeping beauties: Dormant innovations in nature and culture
Innovations in biological evolution and in human culture – from science to the arts – arise by processes with multiple parallels.
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Metaphors of identity, recognition and connection in the 20th century - cell biology and literature
Every knowledge-based discipline proceeds trough history by coining new terms.
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Occupational Health and Well-being in the Performing Arts in South Africa: The formation of an interdisciplinary Performing Arts Health network led by the universities of Stellenbosch and Pretoria
This project aims to consolidate and develop a national Performing Arts Health network led by Stellenbosch University and the University of Pretoria for interdisciplinary scholarly activity in the field of performing arts health in South Africa.
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Meeting Long Term Challenges
Professor Ian Goldin is the Director of the Oxford Martin School and Professor of Globalisation and Development at the University of Oxford.
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Innovations: Key to structural change and prosperity
One of the key activities during my stay at STIAS is, together with Margareta Norell Bergendahl, to finalize the agenda of the up-coming Round Table meeting to be held at STIAS in February 2016.
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Animal, Mineral or Vegetable?
During my time at STIAS I will collaborate with Stellenbosch faculty in both the humanities and the sciences to examine ancient Egyptian mummies, particularly those belonging to animals.
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Anticipation. How Individuals and Communities Use the Future
The future is incorporated into all phenomena, conscious or unconscious, physical or ideational, as anticipation, from those forms of anticipation that are observed, for instance, in a tree that loses its leaves in the Autumn to human planning that colonizes the future inspired by imaginary futures.
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Conceptafrica
The target and at the same time the tool of the project is the conceptualisations and imaginations of the social and the economic in various African languages.
