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ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2011 | Nr 1 (29) 2011 Complexity

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The ongoing climate change and major natural disasters we have been witnessing in recent years, such as the unprecedented floods in Poland and the eruption of the Eyjafjallajókull volcano in Iceland in 2010, encourage us to profoundly rethink how well we really understand our own planet.
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Paweł M. Rowiński
Wojciech Dębski
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Biofilms are complex, dynamic structures in which individual microorganisms function as a multicellular social organism.
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Urszula Zielenkiewicz
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In recent years, the concept of psychopathy has shifted outside the realm of clinical and criminal psychology, capturing the attention of industrial and organizational psychologists.
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Jarosław Groth
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Dr. Elżbieta Janicka, who presented a research project on Warsaw's symbolic space during the PAS Institute of Slavic Studies conference "Space and Memory;' is interviewed by Maria Cyranowicz and Patrycja Dołowy (who also participated in the conference).
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Elzbieta Janicka
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In a village near the border of Poland and Ukraine, a PAS archaeologist has used aerial photography to discover and study a medieval stronghold which may turn out to have been the administrative center of the legendary Czerwień Towns.
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Marek Poznański
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For decades, geochemical studies of lake and river sediments have been widely used in prospecting for mineral deposits. Nowadays they are also commonly used to assess the degree to which surface waters are polluted with heavy metals and harmful organic substances.
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Kinga Małecka
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What is our attitude towards immigrants and ethnic minorities? Are we more or less tolerant than other European societies?
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Aleksandra Grzymała-Kazłowska
Aleksandra Jasińska-Kania
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Computers have already become nearly ubiquitous in our daily lives. Yet it takes not just hardware, but also software to make a computer. Some discoveries in the programming field have had a direct impact on our standard of living.
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Marek Kubale
ORCID: ORCID
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Prof. Henryk Woźniakowski talks to Academia about the past, present, and future of computational complexity theory.
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Henryk Woźniakowski
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The Warsaw School of Economics campus, a fascinating and intricate monument of art-deco architecture, was designed and constructed in the 1920-30s as one element within a broader concept of building a modern society.
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Marta Leśniewska
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Science populańzation is a changing field these days. Now we want to know how many "fans" an event has gathered on Facebook, and the European SciCafe project is even planning to open coffee shops in "Second Lite:• How well are we keeping pace?
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Magdalena Fikus

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