Can we learn anything about sustainability by studying natural cycles?

Tell me all about Systems Theory, and how it can solve all my problems. I'm becoming interested in Systems Theory. For those of you who, like me, are pretty weak on exactly what this means, here's a brief link: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/SYSTHEOR.html...

The Iraq War like the Vietnam War has been an opportunity to learn by experience, but the American people obviously did not learn the many lessions during or after Vietnam. Are we going to learn anything about war this time? Or are we going to attack...

I will be studying abroad in Italy next month. I've been studying Italian and I learn languages well, but I'm not anywhere near fluent. I'm going there for the purpose of learning Italian, of course -but will it be really hard to understand people? I...

Let me start off my saying that i am mostly Latin (My mom full and my dad half). About a year ago i have been interested in Japan and the Culture and the Language and everything so i wanted to learn Japanese. I told my dad and he said well you have to...

Help me please! I'm desperate. I'm studying architecture now, I told them I couldn't draw, they said don't worry, we'll teach you what you need. The studio days are not helping me, I've already asked for extra help. They are geared for people who already...

My ignorance of science and engineering concepts, procedures, and methods of calculation is holding me back from tackling a whole mess of fun stuff. But what fields am I even interested in, and how can I learn more? Where do I begin? I love problem solving...

I want to learn a foreign language. I already have my heart set on a specific language, but I was also thinking about learning another language afterwards. Which language should I learn and why? I understand that the answer to my next question will vary...

To the question of "Why is there something instead of nothing?" physicists usually respond with "We don't know. But we are working on it." For example, they say this in discussions on creationism. But given that studying the universe...