Activation Incarnate

Physics Incarnate

Over 50 years ago, C. P. Snow warned that a growing chasm between scientific and literary intellectuals would leave society ill-prepared to solve its most pressing problems. In his now classic lecture (later published as an essay), ‘‘The Two Cultures,’’ Snow—who as a physicist and novelist had special insight into the problem—described the depth of the divide and appeared to chide the willful i...

Daniela Sandler - Incarnate Politics

To describe Berlin as a construction site has become a cliché. A report from March 2000 in The Architectural Review reads: “Cranes have dominated Berlin’s skyline [for] the past ten years.” 1 Five years prior, an article in Art in America declared: “Six years after the fall of the Wall, Berlin is coming more and more to resemble a vast construction site.” 2 Cranes and scaffolding can be seen al...

Model and Incarnate Virtual Environments

Infectious disease aerobiology: miasma incarnate

There is an exceedingly small group of microorganisms that are considered pathogenic in humans relative to the microbial biota—with literally just a few bacterial and viral agents that have the potential to cause disease when transmitted in aerosol form. This group of pathogens has adapted to circumvent the rigors of airborne transport to enter the respiratory system and induce infection. The c...

Noise Traders Incarnate: Describing a Realistic Noise Trading Process

We estimate a realistic process for noise trading to help theorists calibrate their models. For this purpose we characterize the trades executed by individual investors, who are natural candidates for the role of noise traders because their trades are (on average) cross-correlated, loss making, and weakly correlated with stocks’ future fundamentals. We use transactions data from a retail broker...