The most exciting, and to my old head, the most simple, is that dark matter is primordial black holes. We already know black holes are here, and LIGO et al are seeing unexpected black hole masses. Great article here - https://www.quantamagazine.org...

From the first exchanges of pooling foodstuffs via tithing to unionism to wall street, pooled cooperative effort has been the great society game change mechanism. It is time the worker begin the cooperative effort to control their own destiny in the gig economy. I have written a white paper on what a work exchange could look like that has the worker as the owner not just the product. http://www.metier.com/the-demo...

Small world, scale free networks are seen in everything from city streets to silly, Hollywood based parlor games to the brain's synaptic connections. The temperature variations of the CMB also form a small world, scale free network. Since the CMB is the fingerprint of the Universe's birth, these repeating network patterns are seen everywhere in greater forms of complexity, resonating by 13 billion years of interacting gravity waves. Therein lies the simplicity that drives social. The 4.7 degrees of separation on Facebook has a physics story. Batting averages have a physics story. The only system that has any possibility of being open is the Universe, so everything else, all systems you can think of, including the sociology of the selfie has a physics story. There is an algorithm somewhere in there. We just haven't found the right perspective to figure it out yet. There will one day be a Einstein of social physics.

While his Thomas Covenant series is pretty well known, the Gap series continued his amazing use of the anti-hero. Why keep reading about such wretched folks? His prose can get heavy, but he does a wonderful job of setting place. His characters are certainly multi-dimensioned, and deep. I've always hoped for a Thomas Covenant movie treatment, and a Gap TV series could be huge.

We use Mantis for bugs, and we've integrated that with WorkLenz, a PPM tool. WorkLenz has a fairly robust taxonomy capability that can mirror Mantis pretty well. It does Agile as well as waterfall, all within the same taxonomy.