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By Mark Flanagan, About.com Guide to Contemporary Literature since 2003

Simplexity by Jeffrey Kluger

Tuesday October 7, 2008

Jeffrey Kluger, a senior writer for Time magazine, introduces us to the new scientific discipline of Simplexity - the notion that seemingly complex things can be more simple than they appear and that, alternately, seemingly simple things can be more complex than they appear. Kluger draws on research in fields including economics, biology, cosmology, chemistry, psychology, politics, and the arts to see patterns that make our world both full of complexity and reducible — with the right point of view — to simplicity. Read more.

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