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Samuel Arbesman

Samuel Arbesman is the author of The Magic of Code and is scientist in residence at Lux Capital.

Putting City Rankings into Perspective

The Rarity of the Ampersand: Frequencies of Special Characters

'Dark Intellectual Property': Why We Need a Kickstarter for Patents

Geographical Distance, not Climate, Explains Regional Cuisines

The Math of Charity

An In-Flight Game for Window Seats

Some Fun with Color Names

210 Reasons for the Fall of the Roman Empire

A New Model for Urban Scaling

Identity Over Time and Mr. Potato Head

Reading Levels of the State of the Union Addresses

The Controversial Topics of Wikipedia

The Fiftieth Anniversary of Chaos

Coping with Changing Medical Knowledge

The Overuse of Elegant Mathematics

The Cities of Science

How Survey Data Helped the Federal Reserve Make a Regional Map of the United States

Exploring the Space of Human Interaction

Tradition and Innovation in Scientific Progress

Almost Integers