Samuel Arbesman
Samuel Arbesman is a senior scholar at the Kauffman Foundation and a fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. He is the author of the new book The Half-Life of Facts.
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Photos
The Limits of Urban Planning With LEGOs
What's lost when anything is possible.
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Maps
The Needlessly Inscrutable Geography of Scientific Funding
Data are scarce, but a look at grants from the National Institutes of Health gives us at least a partial picture.
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Why America's Religious Jews May Not Be Able to Move Back Downtown
Constructing the necessary "religious infrastructure" takes much more effort in existing dense neighborhoods.
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The Mathematical Puzzle That Is the Complexity of the City
How, if at all, can we quantify the relative complexity of a place?
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Maps
The Invisible Borders That Define American Culture
We can be connected (or disconnected) based on where we move, how we speak, and even what sports teams we root for.
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Charts
How Big Is Your City, Really?
When our sense of a place distorts its actual size.
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Rankings
Do Rankings Affect Our Opinions of Cities?
What we think about different places also depends on where we live
