Mark Buchanan
Articles by Mark Buchanan
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Ideas
NS Essay - The science of inequality
- 02 September 2002
You always knew that the rich got richer through no merit of their own, didn't you? Now, with the aid of computers, scientists think they have proved it
World Affairs
The extinction of species and why it matters more than you think
- 08 July 2002
It's a small world: take anybody else on earth, and you are probably linked through six acquaintances. What's scary is that a similar rule applies to natural life
Politics
Is earthquake prediction just literature?
- 05 February 2001
Disaster strikes India and El Salvador, and yet not a single scientist saw it coming. Mark Buchanan explains why
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - Why the world is simpler than you think
- 09 October 2000
Earthquakes, forest fires, wars and stock markets: do they all follow a universal law?











