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#harryseldon — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. Our latest weekly roundup of academic #ClimateResearch related to our climate blunder includes 144 reports, by 826 contributing investigators.

    We're certainly not suggesting the article is science fiction, but fans of #IsaacAsimov's #FoundationTrilogy and central character #HarrySeldon may find one #OpenAccess item particularly interesting: "Phase synchronization between culture and climate forcing," via Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

    skepticalscience.com/new_resea

  2. Current approximation of #HarrySeldon.

    "Here, we present a simple consumer/resource model that captures the coupled dynamics of stochastic cultural learning and transmission, population growth and resource depletion in a changing environment. The idealized stochastic mathematical model simulates boom/bust cycles between low-population subsistence, high-density resource exploitation and subsequent population decline."

    #HumanPopulationDynamics
    #SociodemographicFeedback

    royalsocietypublishing.org/doi