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Happening now at SFI: To make sense of a mountain of food web data, give it a jolt of math

This week's working group at SFI brings together ecologists and computer scientists to develop techniques for analyzing an explosion of food web data.

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Report to POTUS: Now's the time to promote urban innovation

SFI's Luis Bettencourt contributed to a newly-released report that could inform policies to promote innovation in urban centers.

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Scientists: Complexity theory can play a role in financial regulation and prediction

Science

Deploying ideas and tools from complexity science in the financial sector would go a long way toward stabilizing global financial markets, according to a group of scientists writing today in Science

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Bluebird’s conundrum: Shack up now or hang out in mom’s nest for a while

Behavioral Ecology

Young male bluebirds may gain an evolutionary advantage by delaying breeding and helping out their parents' nests instead, according to new research led by SFI's Caitlin Stern.

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How hunter-gatherers preserved their food sources

New research in Nature Scientific Reports explores the impact of hunter-gatherers on north Pacific marine food webs and the behaviors that helped preserve their network of food sources.

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Why and how far hunter-gatherers groups migrate

A model developed by a team of SFI-affiliated researchers predicts the scale and variability of hunter-gatherer migrations based on human body size, available food resources (energy), and other factors.

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What makes cities unique...and the same?

Cities may have unique economic profiles, but as urban areas grow, they exhibit common trends.

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At the heart of economics, a gamble

AIP

Simple gambles extend through all major branches of economic theory. And, according to a new paper by SFI’s Ole Peters and Murray Gell-Mann, we’ve been wrongly conceptualizing them for some 350 years.

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A new economics curriculum

Authors of a free, interactive open-access economics textbook meet at SFI to discuss new ways to teach the subject as a complex, dynamical system.

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Mapping the movements of birds and beasts

Using aerial drones to track the movements and interactions of a migrating herd of caribou, SFI Omidyar Fellow Andrew Berdahl plans to test a hypothesis that traveling en masse helps the herd navigate.

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Semantically speaking: Does meaning structure unite languages?

PNAS

By measuring how closely words’ meanings are related within and between languages, a research team has revealed that for many universal concepts, the world’s languages feature a common structure of semantic relatedness.

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A science of city skylines?

Technology Review

Articles in CityLab and MIT Technology Review highlight new SFI research on metropolitan buildings, population size, innovation, and a city’s carbon footprint.

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How to make slums more resilient to climate change

A team from the Santa Fe Institute, Arizona State University, and Slum Dwellers International has been selected to find new ways to help the world's poorest, most vulnerable communities.

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Workshop: An overdue overhaul for network theory

Moving beyond an antiquated view of networks and assembling researchers from disparate fields to forge novel insights about networks are the dual goals of a recent workshop at SFI.

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