The promise: cutting-edge strategies for software for a coming world of multiple supercomputers, where continually swapped programs and big databases will find and exploit unseen patterns in nature and society.
By placing design in a central place in our understanding of the world around us, and in defining nature and society as sets of interrelated flow systems, Bejan has created (or recognized) a new job description: the flow worker.
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The group notes that old and new energy sources have both promise and risk for society and nature, since natural gas and wind energy produce less pollution than coal.
The Northern Kites project is managed by English Nature and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
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In the case in Massachusetts that John mentioned, in the schools in the Lynn district, where they've had a voluntary desegregation plan, and they've now defended it successfully in Federal court, the students feel that the kids in the adjoining districts that are segregated are clueless about the nature of this society and just don't understand how to operate in it.
In the book, there are no schools, marriage is abolished and a society at harmony with nature keeps its citizens busy with creative and enjoyable work.
To them , Ayer's Rock represents the delicate balance between ancient traditions, modern society and nature.
And one reason why he was so interested in conservative intellectuals was that he thought that their ideas on the primacy of the family and the organic nature of society might be able to revitalise his party.
In writings by Mr. Barda about the drafting process and debates within the drafting team, one theme was the idea that Indonesian society should be religious in nature, and that religious norms should be allowed "to socially engineer people's behavior through this piece of legislation, " said Indri D.
The ritual links local biodiversity to a complex, symbolic cosmology that connects the different but inseparable domains of society, culture and nature.
What makes nature intrinsically alright, and what makes our technology and our willpower to overcome our nature, to repair and rehabilitate ourselves, invalidate our full return to society and to competition?
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has said the proposed changes are a matter of justice and equality that reflect the evolving nature of society.
Such is human nature, and we can see it in many areas of society, whether in decisions about medical care or environmental conservation.
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Other objectors included English Nature, the Environment Agency, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the Residents Against Dibden Bay group.
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Our constant drive for selfish over-consumption at any cost, to benefit the few at the expense of the many and at the expense of Nature itself, is the real illness in our society that is causing all of this imbalance.
"As they say, nature abhors a vacuum, and the mind abhors chance, " says Michael Shermer, executive director of the Skeptics Society and author of "The Believing Brain, " a book on how humans seem hardwired to find patterns in disparate facts and unconnected, often innocent coincidences.
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