11 Emerging Scientific Fields That Everyone Should Know About

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There was a time when science could be broken down into neat-and-tidy disciplines — straightforward things like biology, chemistry, physics, and astronomy.

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Cliodynamics

Cliodynamics: History as Science Empires rise and fall, populations and economies boom and bust, world religions spread or wither... What are the mechanisms underlying such dynamical processes in ...

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Can "cliodynamics" help historians predict future unrest?

Unlike physicists and chemists, historians have been unable to formulate grand equations or immutable laws. The trends of history, it would seem, are outside the scope of reproducible science. But a

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Knowing and Making: What is the difference between cognitive economics and behavioural finance?

This question was posed in an interesting LinkedIn discussion group (Behavioural Finance: Theory and Practice) by Kerry Pechter. I dashed off a quick answer which ended up being 500 words long. So I

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" CSSSA Papers

Note: Discussions are open only to current CSSSA members and authors contributing to a given year's papers. Sack, Graham; Wu, Daniel; Zusman, Benjamin 2012 Simulating the Cultural Evolution of ...

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