Undark/ NPR: Humanitarians Push to Vaccinate in Conflict Zones
Quoting former SFI Omidyar Fellow Caroline Buckee.
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Quanta: The Brain Doesn’t Think the Way You Think It Does
Quoting SFI External Professor John Krakauer.
Mindscape podcast: W. Brian Arthur on Complexity Economics
SFI Fractal Faculty member Sean Carroll interviews SFI External Professor W. Brian Arthur.
SYFY Wire: WHAT IF THERE WAS MORE THAN ONE ORIGIN OF LIFE?
Featuring research by SFI President David Krakauer and SFI Professor Christopher Kempes.
Follow the Science podcast: Why is the Pandemic So Hard to Predict?
Interviewing SFI External Professor Sam Scarpino.
Nautilus: Why You May Have More Friends Than Your Friends Do
Featuring research by SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow George Cantwell, SFI External Professor Mark Newman, and their collaborator Alec Kirkley.
Quanta: How Big Data Carried Graph Theory Into New Dimensions
Quoting former SFI Omidyar Fellow Joshua Grochow, and citing research by SFI External Professors Pamela Yeh and Van Savage.
The Wall Street Journal: Colleges Grapple With Costs for Covid-19 Tests, Unvaccinated Students
Quoting SFI External Professor Lauren Ancel Meyers and citing research from her UT Austin COVID-19 Modeling Consortium.
Sustainability Times: As cities grow larger, the poorest residents lose out
Featuring research by SFI Omidyar Fellow and Peters Hurst Scholar Vicky Chuqiao Yang, SFI Professor Christopher Kempes, SFI Distinguished Shannan Professor Geoffrey West, and former Undergraduate Complexity Researchers Cate Heine, Elisa Heinrich Mora, and Jacob J. Jackson.
WebMD: Youngest Kids More Likely to Spread COVID-19 to Family: Study
Quoting SFI External Professor Sam Scarpino.
The Daily Galaxy: Counterintuitive –“Life Originated Independently Multiple Times on Earth as a New Form”
Featuring research by SFI President David Krakauer and SFI Professor Christopher Kempes.
The New York Times: American Hospitals Buckle Under Delta, With I.C.U.s Filling Up
Quoting SFI External Professor Lauren Ancel Meyers.
IFL Science: Seeing Life As A Spectrum Could Help Us Seek It Outside Earth, Two Scientists Claim
Featuring research by SFI President David Krakauer and SFI Professor Christopher Kempes.
VICE: How the Economy Has to Radically Transform to End Fossil Fuels in 20 Years
Featuring research by SFI External Professors Jessika Trancik and Doyne Farmer.
The Atlantic: HOW THE PANDEMIC NOW ENDS
Quoting SFI External Professor Sam Scarpino.
BBC News: Is the coronavirus pandemic over at last?
Quoting SFI External Professor Lauren Ancel Meyers, and citing her UT Austin COVID-19 Modeling Consortium.
Scientific American/Quanta: The Computer Scientist Training AI to Think with Analogies
Profiling Melanie Mitchell, SFI Davis Professor of Complexity.
Buzzfeed: Yes, Delta Is Scary, But Europe’s Recent COVID Surges Show That It Can Be Controlled
Quoting SFI External Professor Lauren Ancel Meyers, and citing her UT Austin COVID-19 Modeling Consortium.
National Geographic: How will the pandemic end? The science of past outbreaks offers clues.
Quoting SFI External Faculty Fellow Joshua Epstein.
The Ezra Klein Show (New York Times): The Good and Bad News About the Delta Variant
Citing a book by Mark Pagel, SFI External Faculty Fellow and evolutionary biologist, titled Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind.