project ● live published 2026-09-21 · institutions, governance, systems Michael Zargham's open course in three modules on building and rehabilitating institutions that can sustain healthy relationships with the planet, the biosphere and each other: models within limits, collective action, design principles for governance.
site ● live published 2026-09-01· updated 2026-09-21 · climate, earth observation, AI, systems Ryan Orbuch argues for a foundation model trained on the planet itself. An audacious, fundable ask, well made; what it glosses over is that the challenge is social before it is technical, and that there will be many models, not one.
reading ● live published 2026-09-17· updated 2026-09-22 · AI, simulation, systems A paper asking whether one learning principle can model radically different systems: vision, biology, clinical trajectories, control, molecular dynamics, physical fields and weather. Its latent orbital modes recover Kepler's scaling exponent to four digits.