Peacocks communicate via the (ultra)sounds they make with their feathers
Posted 20 Jun 2012 / 0Science News “Peacocks ruffle feathers, make a rumble“
A Minor Post, Adaptation, Communication, MSCI-363, Biological Origins of Sound & Music, Web“EvoLudo” site provides tutorials on evolutionary games related to cooperation
Posted 18 Jun 2012 / 0Evoludo
A Minor Post, Cooperation, Game Theory, Teaching Tools“Evolution and Games” site provides tutorials on cooperation theory
Posted 18 Jun 2012 / 0Evolution and Games: “How to quit the Price equation” “Evolution of Parochial Altruism by Multilevel Selection” “Sociality: It takes grouping and cooperation” “In and out of equilibrium: Evolution in repeated games” “Repeated games and population structure“
A Minor Post, Cooperation, Game Theory, Teaching ToolsBruce B. Henderson on the unappreciated importance of “consumatory scholarship”
Posted 11 Jun 2012 / 0The Chronicle of Higher Education “Just Because We’re Not Publishing Doesn’t Mean We’re Not Working” All I can say about this article is “word”.
A Minor Post, Higher Education, TeachingEvolutionary Games Infographic Project launches with its first release of graphic packages
Posted 04 Jun 2012 / 0In the Fall of 2011 I began a new project with Greg Riestenberg, a graduate student in Pratt’s Communications Design program. Given the ubiquity — especially in recent times — of evolutionary game theory, you would think that someone would have produced a set of clear conceptual images depicting how the most important of these games work; Read More
Department of Mathematics & Science, Evolutionary Games Infographics, Game Theory, Information Design, Pratt Institute, Teaching, Teaching ToolsMolly H. Adams earns top honors from the Critical and Visual Studies program
Posted 11 May 2012 / 0Me with Molly and B. Ricardo Brown (coordinator of the Critical and Visual Studies program) at Pratt’s Honors Convocation I am proud to report that a student who I have both taught and mentored, Molly H. Adams, has won top honors for both her exceptional academic work and the production of an exemplary thesis. Along Read More
Anthropogenic Change, Biomes, Conservation Biology, Critical and Visual Studies program, Ecosystem Services, Environmental Justice, Ethics, Mentoring, Pratt Institute“Open Yale” course provides the fundamentals of Game Theory for free
Posted 10 May 2012 / 0Open Yale courses “Econ 159: Game Theory“
A Minor Post, Game Theory, Higher EducationThe tragically early passing of Fred Rubino, an influential Brooklyn educator
Posted 04 Apr 2012 / 4Not surprisingly, where I am today has a lot to do with where I came from. My passion for teaching, driven in large part by the faith that educators can transform the lives of their students, predates my arrival in higher education. My first teaching jobs were in New York City middle schools, where I Read More
Obituary, TeachingEvolutionary Games Infographic Project: First images
Posted 31 Oct 2011 / Comments Off on Evolutionary Games Infographic Project: First imagesUPDATE: The images discussed below are now available for free use on the Evolutionary Games Infographic Project page. This post described earlier versions of our “conceptual” evolutionary games infographics for the Prisoner’s Dilemma, Stag Hunt, and Hawk-Dove games. The latest versions of these images are posted here. Below are galleries showing these earlier versions: You can browse Read More
Evolutionary Games Infographics, Game Theory, Information Design, Teaching ToolsHOME, a documentary about the impacted Biosphere
Posted 18 Sep 2011 / 0I just watched the video Home, a production of Yann Arthus-Bertrand and his Good Planet Foundation. Composed solely of high-quality panoramic images intensified by a soaring new-age soundtrack, the film provides viewers with a fairly comprehensive overview of the earth’s ecosystems and the challenges to the future health of these ecosystems posed by human industry. Read More
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