How should we think about human creativity? One way is to try and explain it as something profound that takes place inside someone's head. But a complex systems view is to pull the camera back and look at society itself as a complex cognitive system.

Where does simultaneous invention come from?

1/ "In ecology, you have this fantastic and beautiful and inspiring phenomenon of convergent evolution, where you have completely unrelated species that have been separated by many, many thousands of years, yet end up looking the same in some way. Tyler Marghetis on 'creativity'

While war and human conflict may appear one of the more unpredictable and chaotic things we humans do, there appears to be a common way that we go about conflict. Join us for a complexity view of conflict, where we return to the sand pile model and find straight lines in war.

1/ "Music is this crazy fusion of the intellectual and the emotional. It's about dancing, and it's about drama, and it's about expression. It combines the logical theorem with the infant's wail." Dmitri Tymoczko Princeton University on the tension between music and its underlying maths.

Michael Browne of BBA Architecture speaking on the role of Assigned Certifier inspecting MMC at the National Building Control Office-hosted CPD Event "Housing for All : Building Control and MMC" #mmc #buildingcontrol #HousingForAll Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage Local Government Management Agency CCMA

Happy International Women's Day! Have you heard of Rosie Hackett? Co-founder of the Irish Women Workers’ Union and a fierce force in the Dublin Lockout. In Irish history, many women were written out. We’re proud to honour her and other women trade unionists today. #IWD2024

It’s Dr Tom Clonan or Catherine Connolly for President of Ireland in 2025

McDowell will shaft them all and run for the presidency instead .... after they've helped raise his profile.

The NBCO advise that new requirements for Part B have been signed into law as SI 108 2024, and a revised TGD Part B Volume 1 has been published, refer below: gov.ie/en/publication… Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage RIAI Engineers Ireland SCSI - Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland Construction Industry Federation (CIF)

1/ Our latest guests on #SimplifyingComplexity are Brooke Harrington & Herbert Chang 張賀鈞 from Dartmouth 🌲 speaking about offshore finance. Decoding the Panama Papers - Part 1 Apple: buff.ly/3VTjG9I Google: buff.ly/3L0GMZo Spotify: buff.ly/3WaR9MA

Our latest episode of Simplifying Complexity looks at the network structures of offshore wealth. And there's a wonderful description of where the “trust” fund comes from…

1/ Our latest guest Doyne Farmer of Oxford Smith School INET Complexity INET Oxford on Chaos Theory. Hear more from Doyne on podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mak…

Love this episode with Jennifer Dunne from Santa Fe Institute

The Women's Fire Service Network, in conjunction with the National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management, will hold their annual event next Monday Open to all ranks from the fire service and control room personnel To book, see details on poster Fire Safety Ireland

The Women's Fire Service Network, in conjunction with the National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management, will hold their annual event next Monday Open to all ranks from the fire service and control room personnel To book, see details on poster 👇 Fire Safety Ireland

The Women's Fire Service Network, in conjunction with the National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management are holding their annual event in Portlaoise today. See below for the itinerary and list of speakers including participants from Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service Fire Safety Ireland

NIFRS delighted to support WFSN, National Event in Portlaoise, Co Laois.

We welcomed the first female firefighter in to the ranks of Dublin Fire Brigade in 1994. We now have females representing every rank, from Firefighter to Assistant Chief Fire Officer. The #WFSN held their annual event today and this is just a small snippet of some of the