A good piece in the NYTimes yesterday by Nate Silver that touches on many things we find of interest: chaos theory, prediction, non-linear behaviors, simulation modeling, etc.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/magazine/the-weatherman-is-not-a-moron.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all -tom johnson
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