Tag: nytimes
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A physicist solves the City equation
Geoffrey West, a physicist, set out to study cities and urban growth and find variables for growth and decline. Consuming massive amounts of data, he discovered cities are governed by Laws, just like physics. After two years of analysis, West and Bettencourt discovered that all of these urban variables could be described by a few […]
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Creativity and divergent thinking as a strategic national asset
Thomas Friedman views immigration and the melting pot that is America as a strategic asset of creation: …America’s most important competitive advantage: the sheer creative energy that comes when you mix all our diverse people and cultures together. We live in an age when the most valuable asset any economy can have is the ability […]