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New Scientist reviews Ben Ramalingam's new book Aid on the Edge of Chaos: Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World.

A feature of SFI Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West reviews his career from his humble beginnings to his accomplishments in particle physics to his research to develop a theoretical understanding of cities.

SFI Trustee John Chisholm writes of the tension between technological innovations and their tendency to make jobs obsolete, citing a 2011 essay by SFI External Professor W. Brian Arthur that predicts the digital economy will soon rival the human economy.

A new study in PLOS ONE co-authored by SFI Omidyar Fellow Eric Libby reveals an optimal switching rate between forms of a species as it makes its environment less livable.

In asking "Is this the death of Apple?", an article about the fortunes and falters of companies cites SFI research on the life cycles of companies.

In an op-ed in New Scientist magazine, SFI Professor Luis Bettencourt compares cities to stars, and offers four principles for understanding cities.

In a Q&A in International Innovation magazine, SFI President Jerry Sabloff discusses the Institute's history, its contributions to complex systems science, and his hopes for the Institute's future.

Research by a team that includes SFI Omidyar Fellow Ben Althouse suggests that celebrity cancer diagnoses and resulting media coverage are a more powerful motivator in smoking cessation than other cessation awareness events.

In an SFI Community Lecture on November 6 in Santa Fe, historian George Dyson told the story of how a small band of young geniuses not only built the computer but foresaw the new world it would create. Watch his talk.

In an article about the cultural ingredients of inventiveness, SFI Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West notes that creativity and social interaction accelerate in cities, one reason they generate so many patents.

SFI Business Network members and their guests gathered recently at Morgan Stanley World Headquarters in New York for “Risk: The Human Factor,” a Network topical meeting focused on the human element in financial and economic systems.

Are Big Data and predictive analytics truly a gold mine for business, science, and government? Or are they a serious threat to our privacy and freedom? Chris Wood offers perspectives from a recent SFI meeting in Santa Fe.

In a new paper in PNAS, SFI's Cristopher Moore and Pan Zhang and collaborators offer a new twist on the mathematical challenge of detecting clusters in networks representing relationships among everything from galaxies to people.

In Forbes, Jonathan Haidt and David Sloan Wilson posit that Darwinian evolution is a good starting point for a grand theory of business, citing research by SFI External Professor Herbert Gintis.

In Scientific American Jaron Lanier explores the dilemmas of data privacy, citing his work with economist and SFI External Professor W. Brian Arthur to understand what happens when users of data pay for that use.

On the BBC Radio program "The Digital Human," SFI Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West helps explore the hopes and challenges of rapid urbanization.

Capitalism is a complex adaptive system. Like a biological system, it evolves, according to an article in Big Think that links growth in emerging economies with adaptation.

SFI Board of Trustees Chair Michael Mauboussin, in Elliott Turner's blog "Compounding My Interests," describes how complex systems science and SFI have influenced his approach to investing and business.

Is urbanization sustainable? That is precisely what a team at SFI is working on, says a Big Think article that features the Institute's cities research.

On the podcast Virtually Speaking Science, science Writer Jennifer Ouellette talks with SFI Research Fellow Simon DeDeo about the basis for understanding complex social systems.