Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety
by Marion Nestle · 1 Jan 2010 · 736pp · 147,021 words
paper. Science 1999;286:656. 52. Losey JE, Rayor LS, Carter ME. Transgenic pollen harms monarch larvae. Nature 1999;399:214. 53. Stix G. The butterfly effect: new research findings and European jitters could cloud the future for genetically modified crops. Scientific American, August 1999:28–29. The finding inspired a book
Chaos: Making a New Science
by James Gleick · 18 Oct 2011 · 396pp · 112,748 words
CHAOS Making a New Science James Gleick To Cynthia human was the music, natural was the static… —JOHN UPDIKE Contents Prologue The Butterfly Effect Edward Lorenz and his toy weather. The computer misbehaves. Long-range forecasting is doomed. Order masquerading as randomness. A world of nonlinearity. “We completely missed
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—a phenomenon given the name “sensitive dependence on initial conditions.” In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly known as the Butterfly Effect—the notion that a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform storm systems next month in New York. When the explorers of chaos
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many intellectual trails from the past. But one stood out clearly. For the young physicists and mathematicians leading the revolution, a starting point was the Butterfly Effect. The Butterfly Effect Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next? —RICHARD P. FEYNMAN THE
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better than nothing. But beyond two or three days the world’s best forecasts were speculative, and beyond six or seven they were worthless. The Butterfly Effect was the reason. For small pieces of weather—and to a global forecaster, small can mean thunderstorms and blizzards—any prediction deteriorates rapidly. Errors and
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Robert White, a fellow meteorologist at M.I.T. who later became head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Lorenz told him about the Butterfly Effect and what he felt it meant for long-range prediction. White gave Von Neumann’s answer. “Prediction, nothing,” he said. “This is weather control.” His
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his discovery by working out what it must mean for the way science understood flows in all kinds of fluids. Had he stopped with the Butterfly Effect, an image of predictability giving way to pure randomness, then Lorenz would have produced no more than a piece of very bad news. But Lorenz
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the way the sun warms the east coast of North America, for example, and the way it warms the Atlantic Ocean. The repetition disappeared. The Butterfly Effect was no accident; it was necessary. Suppose small perturbations remained small, he reasoned, instead of cascading upward through the system. Then when the weather came
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eventually uninteresting. To produce the rich repertoire of real earthly weather, the beautiful multiplicity of it, you could hardly wish for anything better than a Butterfly Effect. The Butterfly Effect acquired a technical name: sensitive dependence on initial conditions. And sensitive dependence on initial conditions was not an altogether new notion. It had a
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Shaw and his colleagues began describing it. And the channel transmitting the information upward is the strange attractor, magnifying the initial randomness just as the Butterfly Effect magnifies small uncertainties into large-scale weather patterns. The question was how much. Shaw found—after unwittingly duplicating some of their work—that again Soviet
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unpredictability in complex systems…. A butterfly can flap its wings in Peking, and in Central Park you get rain instead of sunshine.” By then the Butterfly Effect was well on its way to becoming a pop-culture cliché: inspiring at least two movies, an entry in Bartlett’s Quotations, a music video
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arrives in Texas, Florida, New York, Nebraska, Kansas, and Central Park.) After the big hurricanes of 2006, Physics Today published an article titled “Battling the Butterfly Effect,” whimsically blaming butterflies in battalions: “Visions of Lepidoptera terrorist training camps spring suddenly to mind.” Aspects of chaos—different aspects, usually—have been taken up
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Universe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980); see also Robert Shaw, The Dripping Faucet as a Model Chaotic System (Santa Cruz: Aerial, 1984), p. 1. THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT THE SIMULATED WEATHER Lorenz, Malkus, Spiegel, Farmer. The essential Lorenz is a triptych of papers whose centerpiece is “Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow,” Journal of the Atmospheric
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, Bengtsson, Woods, Leith. FORECASTS OF ECONOMIC Peter B. Medawar, “Expectation and Prediction,” in Pluto’s Republic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), pp. 301–4. THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT Lorenz originally used the image of a seagull; the more lasting name seems to have come from his paper, “Predictability; Does the Flap of a
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, 71, 76, 116, 135, 139–40, 144, 149, 168–69, 182, 194, 244, 246, 253, 259, 264, 303, 314, 316–17, 321 and aperiodicity, 22 Butterfly Effect, 8, 20–23, 246–7, 261 childhood, 13 and climate, 168–69 and coffee cup, 25 “Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow,” 30, 66–67, 139–41 discovered
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
by General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman and Chris Fussell · 11 May 2015 · 409pp · 105,551 words
, he titled it “Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?” The phrase “the butterfly effect” entered the world.* • • • Lorenz’s butterfly effect is a physical manifestation of the phenomenon of complexity—not “complexity” in the sense that we use the term in daily life, a
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havoc down the line. A reductionist instruction card would be useless for playing chess—the interactions generate too many possibilities. • • • The significance of Lorenz’s butterfly effect is not, however, just the nonlinear escalation of a minor input into a major output. There’s uncertainty involved; the amplification of the disturbance is
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something like the trajectory of a comet, the development of weather has a far, far wider range of potential outcomes. In popular culture, the term “butterfly effect” is almost always misused. It has become synonymous with “leverage”—the idea of a small thing that has a big impact, with the implication that
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of events that toppled multiple governments faster than the rest of the world could even process the news. Of course, there were successful revolutionaries and butterfly-effect phenomena before the information age, but new technologies have created an unprecedented proliferation of opportunities for small, historically disenfranchised actors to have a
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butterfly effect. Some of this has positive consequences, like entrepreneurial success. Other manifestations are devastating: terrorists, insurgents, and cybercriminals have taken advantage of speed and interdependence to
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it impossible to forecast how markets will move—as in a game of chess, there are just too many possibilities for a prescriptive instruction card. Butterfly effects in the economy, triggered by tiny initial disturbances, are common. This complexity has only grown denser as economies have globalized. The hacker attack on AP
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things right, just not doing the right thing. They were following the plan, and as a result, spiraling outward from one faulty piston, an escalating, butterfly-effect set of responses led to ten deaths, twenty-four injuries, and millions of dollars in damage. The crew’s attachment to procedure instead of purpose
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just as impossible as building lifelong friendships with seven thousand people). We needed to enable a team operating in an interdependent environment to understand the butterfly-effect ramifications of their work and make them aware of the other teams with whom they would have to cooperate in order to achieve strategic—not
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, 112n, 123–25 British Navy, 29–30, 216–17 “Brook’s Law,” 127–28 Builder, Carl, 205 Bulleri, Massimo, 85–86 Bush, George W., 131 “butterfly effect,” 56, 58–59, 71, 107, 129–30 C-17 transport plane, 33, 92 C-130 transport plane, 35–36 cane toads, 65–66, 77 Carroll
The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do About It
by Ian Goldin and Mike Mariathasan · 15 Mar 2014 · 414pp · 101,285 words
, it considers different dimensions of the problem, offering a number of conceptual tools and lessons for managing the challenges of globalization and systemic risk. The butterfly effect has become widely known to signify systems in which a small change in one place can lead to major differences in a remote and unconnected
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occurred because of an “efficient … supply chain which did not leave much room for catastrophic events.”23 The proverb that lends its name to the butterfly effect says that the fluttering of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil can cause a storm in the United States. In this case a storm in
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Nonperiodic Flow,” Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 20 (2): 130–141. The original metaphor referred to the flapping of a seagull’s wings. The term “butterfly effect” was coined later by a colleague, Phil Merilees, as the title for one of Lorenz’s talks. See Tim Palmer, 2009, “Edward Norton Lorenz, 23
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; systemic risks in, 205; taxes, 181, 196, 205. See also labor markets; manufacturing; supply chains; trade business schools. See management education butterfly defect, xiii–xiv butterfly effect, xiii, 80, 81 California: energy imports of, 140; environmental regulation in, 142 Cameron, Geoffrey, 197 capital flows: cross-border, 12, 19, 21f, 41; liberalization of
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, 212–20; scope of, 202; transparency of, 195–97, 199, 201, 207, 208–9, 214–15 globalization: benefits of, xiv, 30, 31–32, 219, 220; butterfly effect and, xiii–xiv; critics of, 30, 185–86, 198; definition of, 1, 10; effects of, 1–2, 9–10, 198–99; environmental effects of, 123
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, Lars, 24 human capital: investments in, 196–97; skills premium, 172. See also education Hungary, 187, 190, 192 hunger. See food and nutrition security hurricanes, butterfly effect and, xiii Hurricane Sandy, 110, 123, 126 Iceland: banks in, 37, 38; financial crisis in, 37–39, 50, 60, 62; protests in, 60; volcanic eruptions
The Fabric of Reality
by David Deutsch · 31 Mar 2012 · 511pp · 139,108 words
of applying them in realistic situations is notorious. This has recently been brought to public attention in popular books and articles on chaos and the 'butterfly effect'. These effects are not responsible for the intractability that Feynman had in mind, for the simple reason that they occur only in classical physics - that
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computers see under computers quantum cosmology 330, 335 quantum cryptography 218 quantum factorization engine 215�16, 217, 220 quantum gates 214 quantum mechanics ������and the 'butterfly effect' 202, 203 ������Copenhagen interpretation 327�8, 329, 335, 342 ������interpretation of 335 ������intractability in 203 ������and parallel universes 319 {384} ������and 'snapshots' 317 ������and tossing
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
by Brian Klaas · 23 Jan 2024 · 250pp · 96,870 words
two months later could morph from a clear blue sky into a torrential downpour, even a hurricane. Lorenz’s findings created the concept of the butterfly effect, the notion that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil could trigger a tornado in Texas. Lorenz had inadvertently given birth to chaos theory. The
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you do matters, but also that it’s you, and not someone else, who’s doing it. Perhaps every one of us creates our own butterfly effect because each of us flaps our wings a little bit differently. These two conceptions of change are fundamentally different. So, are we just along for
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motion, 260 Brummell, Beau, 86n Buddhism, 226 Buhl, Jerome, 84 Burkeman, Oliver, 109 Bush, George W., 163 butterflies, migration as multi-generational project, 263–64 butterfly effect, 25 Byrne, David, 163 Byrne, Rhonda, 250, 251 Čabrinović, Nedeljko, 99 Calvin, John, 227 Candide (Voltaire), 77 carcinization, 50 Cardano, Gerolamo, 107 Carlson, Jean, 97n
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner · 14 Sep 2015 · 317pp · 100,414 words
—the shape it takes—depends on complex feedback interactions among droplets. To capture these interactions, computer modelers need equations that are highly sensitive to tiny butterfly-effect errors in data collection. So even if we learn all that is knowable about how clouds form, we will not be able to predict the
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passed, and the correct answers were clear—no, no, and no—I asked the experts to consider the plausibility of counterfactual scenarios, in which small butterfly-effect tweaks caused history to unfold differently. When the what-iffery implied that their failed forecast would have turned out right—for example, if the coup
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tomorrow. Or another way to look at it, using Lorenzian computer simulations: if we could rerun the weather in Berlin thousands of times, with minor butterfly-effect tweaks for measurement error in antecedent conditions like winds and barometric pressures, it would rain in 30% of the computer-simulated worlds. Small wonder that
Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
by John Markoff · 22 Mar 2022 · 573pp · 142,376 words
the proposed revival of Xerces is perhaps the clearest way to illustrate Brand’s pragmatic approach and his optimistic philosophy, a literal evocation of the “butterfly effect” that suggests the possibility that the smallest change in the environment can have an immense and nondeterministic effect. It evokes Brand’s access-to-tools
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philosophy as well as Engelbart’s augmentation philosophy. It also stakes out the boundaries of Brand’s techno-optimist philosophy. The idea of the butterfly effect was at the heart of Ray Bradbury’s 1952 science fiction short story “The Sound of Thunder,” in which a hunter uses a time travel
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Brussell, Mae, 215 Burning Man festival, 109, 328 Burrows, George Lord (great-grandfather), 8–9 Burrows, Lorenzo (great-great-grandfather), 7 Butler, Katy, 247–48 butterfly effect, 361 C Caffe Trieste, 48, 74 California, University of, at Berkeley, 25, 135, 302 California Museum of Science and Industry, 91 California Water Atlas, 227
The Lucky Years: How to Thrive in the Brave New World of Health
by David B. Agus · 29 Dec 2015 · 346pp · 92,984 words
One Supplement You’re Not Getting Enough Of CHAPTER 8 WONDER DRUGS THAT WORK Sleep, Sex, Touching, and Tools to Tame Inflammation CHAPTER 9 THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT Get Ready to Flap Your Wings ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR NOTES INDEX NOTE TO READERS This publication contains the opinions and ideas of its author
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ever be able to substitute for things like sleep, sex, and touch—and perhaps gnawing on the bark of a willow tree. CHAPTER 9 The Butterfly Effect Get Ready to Flap Your Wings All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man
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such as the atmosphere could give rise to vast and often unexpected results. These observations ultimately led him to develop what became known as the butterfly effect, a term that grew out of an academic paper he presented in 1972 entitled “Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil
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Set Off a Tornado in Texas?”7 The butterfly effect has significant relevance in all matters of health. We are each agents of change in the Lucky Years; we are each butterflies flapping our wings
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on this phenomenon, see David S. Fedson and Steven M. Opal, “Can Statins Help Treat Ebola?,” New York Times, August 15, 2014. Chapter 9: The Butterfly Effect 1. Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (New York: Little, Brown, 2005). 2. Excerpt from Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without
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Exploring Everyday Things with R and Ruby
by Sau Sheong Chang · 27 Jun 2012
we have observed here, rather than emergent behavior, can be classified as a kind of “butterfly effect”; see the sidebar Butterfly Effect. Figure 8-6. Population fluctuation swings, resulting in extinction of the roids Butterfly Effect In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions, where a small change somewhere in a nonlinear system
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of the society, even with identical starting parameters. We observed that a small effect can ripple down, causing unexpected changes—a phenomenon known as the butterfly effect. The final scenario dealt with evolution. We simulated natural selection by getting the offspring of the roids to inherit traits of their parents. These traits
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(statistician), regarding usefulness of models, The Simple Scenario break keyword, R, Conditionals and Loops brew command, Installing Ruby using your platform’s package management tool butterfly effect, The Changes C c() function, R, Vectors CALO Project, The Emailing Habits of Enron Executives camera, pulse oximeter using, Homemade Pulse Oximeter case expression, Ruby
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