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Condensed concepts

Ruminations on emergent phenomena in condensed phases of matter.

  • By Ross H. McKenzie
  • Based in Australia
  • Roughly three posts per month
  • First post on

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May 2024 2
Jun 2024 5
Jul 2024 3
Aug 2024 3
Sep 2024 6
Oct 2024 5
Nov 2024 2
Dec 2024 2
Jan 2025 2

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Most recent posts

Quantifying the obscurity of academic writing
Occasionally The Economist publishes nice graphs capturing social and economic trends. Here is one.It is part of a nice articleAcademic writing is getting harder to read—the humanities most of allThe downward trend in the humanities …
On , by Ross H. McKenzie, 112 words
Self-organised criticality and emergence in economics
A nice preprint illustrates how emergence is central to some of the biggest questions in economics and finance. Emergent phenomena occur as many economic agents interact resulting in a system with properties that the individual …
On , by Ross H. McKenzie, 1,176 words
From Leo Szilard to the Tasmanian wilderness
Richard Flanagan is an esteemed Australian writer. My son recently gave our family a copy of Flanagan's recent book, Question 7. It is a personal memoir that masterfully weaves together a dizzying array of topics, …
On , by Ross H. McKenzie, 264 words