But how is it not just practice? Or do I not know practice as research?

Life, but not as we know it.

Living systems are perhaps the most fascinating examples of chemistry in action. Molecules assemble into biomachinery that can carry out complex tasks, making life possible. But how did it all begin? This question can be tackled from a geological perspective by surveying the possible conditions under which key biomolecules might have emerged on early Earth. Alternatively, a systems-biology appr...

Life, but not as we know it

species of chameleon, Furcifer labordi, in Madagascar that spends most of its life as an egg. in Madagascar and the American Museum of Natural History in New York, have found a chameleon with a remarkable lifestyle and report the results in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (published online). Although there are almost limitless theoretical combinations of ...

Organizational Resilience – How Do You Know If Your Organization Is Resilient or Not?i

Emerging uncertainties of global systems present a challenge to decision making. Two features that have a great impact on the nature of dealing with uncertainty are still mostly missing from the resilience studies (Rockefeller 100 Resilient Cities, Resilience Alliance, Lee et al. 2013). First, the models are frequently missing the main source of uncertainty: a reaction of a social system to a d...

Where Does It Break? or: Why the Semantic Web Is Not Just "Research as Usual"

Work on the Semantic Web is all too often phrased as a technological challenge: how to improve the precision of search engines, how to personalise web-sites, how to integrate weakly-structured data-sources, etc. This suggests that we will be able to realise the Semantic Web by merely applying (and at most refining) the results that are already available from many branches of Computer Science. I...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet