Here’s Santa Fe Institue’s Geoffrey West giving a TED talk about how the size of cities (and corporations) is not only scalable, but scarily predictable.  Even crazier? If you give them some detail on a city, (such as, the number of gas stations or how many steps per minute the average resident takes) they can tell you how many people live in that city.

For more on this, check out Radiolab’s podcast on it or read all about it on the Santa Fe Institute’s site.

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