The New York Times: The Lasting Lesson's of John Conway's Game of Life
With contributions from SFI Davis Professor of Complexity Melanie Mitchell, and SFI External Professor Daniel Dennett.
News + Events
The latest news and events at the Santa Fe Institute
Year
The Wall Street Journal: CFOs Share Their Favorite Reads of 2020
Naming Deep Survival by SFI MIller Scholar Laurence Gonzales.
Medscape: Can AI Exist in Medicine Without Human Oversight?
Interviewing SFI Davis Professor of Complexity Melanie Mitchell.
Quanta: The Year in Biology
Featuring the information theory of individuality by SFI's Collective Computation Group (C4).
Slate: We Need to Change How We Search for Alien Life
Op-ed by SFI External Professor Sara Imari Walker.
ValueWalk: Learning From The Santa Fe Institute
Featuring SFI and its influence on mental models for investors such as Nicholas Sleep.
Nautilus: Evolving
Profiling SFI External Professor Andreas Wagner.
Nautilus: Why it Pays to Play Around
By SFI External Professor Andreas Wagner, excerpted from his book Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity (Basic Books, 2019).
Nautilus: Playing Go with Darwin
Op-ed by SFI President David Krakauer, citing research by External Professor Andreas Wagner.
Nautilus: How to Build Trust in a Covid-19 Vaccine
Op-ed by Ramanan Laxminarayan (Princeton) and SFI Science Board members Susan Fitzpatrick James S. McDonnell Foundation) and Simon Levin (Princeton).
News Medical: COVID-19 herd immunity threshold far higher than previously thought, say researchers
Featuring a new preprint by SFI External Professor Lauren Ancel Meyers' lab, co-authored by SFI Professor Michael Lachmann.
Bloomberg: Everything We've Learned About Modern Economic Theory Is Wrong
Profiling SFI External Professor and former Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Ole Peters.
Santa Fe Reporter: Listen up
Highlighting SFI's second podcast, Alien Crash Site, by the InterPlantery Project.
Nature: Books in brief
Citing SFI in a review of What Is A Complex System (Ladyman and Wiesner, 2020).
American Scholar: Fatal Courage
Essay by Miller Scholar John Kaag.
C&EN: Strong selection makes proteins more evolvable
Featuring new research by SFI External Professor Andreas Wagner.
Quartz: How long will it take to close every fossil fuel power plant in the US?
Quoting SFI External Professor Seth Blumsack.
Project Syndicate: Miami Trumps Biden
Op-ed by SFI External Professor and Science Board member Ricardo Hausmann.
Spin Sucks: 12 Days of Christmas: Three AI Experts
Profiling Melanie Mitchell, SFI Davis Professor of Complexity.
The Urban: Penser la ville bas carbon
Featuring SFI Distinguished Shannan Professor Geoffrey West.