Cooperation

Help design a car for the future

23:22 July 27, 2009 PDT

Panoramic windows will give driver and passengers an excellent connection with their envir...

C,mm,n (pronounced common) is an open community design project that is not only counting on its members to help design a car but is also tasking them with producing a whole new mobility solution to cope with the challenging demands of the future. The blueprints for the proposed electric car concept and the mobility concepts are freely available under an open source licence and contributions are welcome from anyone and everyone. Read More

RESEARCH WATCH

Give people more freedom to create less selfish societies says research

By Mike Hanlon

16:13 February 8, 2009 PST

Image courtesy of the Character Education page of the Lebanon R-3 School District - what w...

Cooperation, despite being now considered the third force of evolution, just behind mutation and natural selection, is difficult to explain in the context of an evolutionary process based on competition between individuals and selfish behavior. But this puzzle, that has haunted scientists for decades, is now a little closer to be solved by research about to be published on the journal Physical Review Letters. Read More