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	It can no longer be maintained that the properties of any one thing in the universe are independent of the existence or non-existence of everything else. It is, at last, no longer sensible to speak of a universe with only one thing in it. - Lee Smolin, 1997 A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others. - Albert Einstein


	In A Nutshell: Everything exists in relationship with everything else.


	*In The Lab* A discussion of how we are “embedded in nature” by Ilya Prigogine.

In The World

Black Swans and Crashing Markets - Video of interview by PBS’ Paul Solman of Nassim Nicholas Taleb (author of The Black Swan) and Benoit Mandelbrot, who discuss how the current financial crisis is tied to our interrelated world.

Q&A about the book “Linked - Discusses some of the basic ideas in Albert-Lazlo Barabasi’s book, which addresses “How everything is connected to everything else and what it means for business, science and everyday life.”

The Big Idea - An article by Robert Wright that draws on the historic trend of increasing interdependence among peoples of the world. He argues that the "interdependence paradigm" offers "...the most concise guide for policy development in a post-9/11 world."

Quantum Physics in Finnegans Wake - Part of “The Joyce of Science,” a review of how Joyce used principles from quantum physics in his literary masterpiece.


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