The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A few centuries ago, the swirling polychromatic chaos of Jupiter’s atmosphere spawned the immense vortex that we call the Great Red Spot ...

Ragnar van der Merwe received funding from the John Templeton Foundation as part of the project The Evolution of Complexity hosted at Bath University. Alex Broadbent received funding from the John ...

What Can Science Say About Where the World Is Going? When thinking about complex systems in terms of the context of this speaker series, one might assume that the phrase refers mainly to the sciences.

Discussion of the concept of lever points from emergence theory as a tool for understanding and acting as revolutionaries in different moments. “Give me a long enough lever and a place to stand, and I ...