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Dennis Meadows, who has spent decades studying Earth's capacity to endure human population growth and extractive economies, says we've run out of time to turn around our global version of the Titanic...
Several DeVargas Middle School students who are part of Project GUTS (Growing Up Thinking Scientifically), one of 28 such programs in the state hosted by the Santa Fe Institute that encourage young women and men to pursue science, technology, engineering and math careers, took time out of class to learn some real-world techniques for data collection from eight Massachusetts college students.
May 19 through May 21, 2010 in Portland Oregon. The course is an intensive, immersive tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals.
Daniel Rockmore, SFI External Professor and Dartmouth College mathematics department Chair, has developed a technique that sleuths out forgeries, estimated to make up 20 percent of the art market.
Steven Strogatz, SFI External Professor and Professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University, says it's traditional to teach kids subtraction right after addition. "If you can cope with calculating 23 + 9, you’ll be ready for 23 – 9 soon enough," writes Strogatz.
The Santa Fe Institute celebrates 25 years.
Watch video interviews with SFI Professors David Krakauer, Sam Bowles, Murray Gell-Mann and Harold Morowitz discussing the future of complexity .
Memento: Time Travel for the Web
Herbert Van de Sompel, Digital Library Research & Prototyping, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Community Detection Algorithms: A Comparative Analysis
Santo Fortunato, Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI), Italy
Born Poor ? Santa Fe economist Samuel Bowles says you better get used to it.
Bowles heads the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute, which is home to dozens of big brains imported from all over the world. If he’s right, those troubling job numbers are only the start of New Mexico’s problems. Indeed, if Bowles is right, the state needs to completely rethink the way it does economic development.
Thursday, September 16, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf
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The decline and abandonment of many key cities in the Southern Maya Lowlands around A.D. 800 has long attracted scholarly and public attention. While archaeologists now understand – contrary to previous thought – that Maya civilization did not collapse at this time, as a number of Maya cities continued to thrive up until the 16th century Spanish Conquest, the causes of the relatively rapid demise of cities such as Tikal, Palenque, and Copan remain of great interest. New archaeological, epigraphic, and environmental information have enabled archaeologists to form better models that provide more systemic perspectives on this decline than ever before. Sabloff examines the new data and models and discusses their potential relevance to problems facing the world today.