Santa Fe Institute

SFI Miller Scholar Rebecca Goldstein discusses religion, empiricism, the philosophy of morality, and what it means to be human on KSFR's Santa Fe Radio Cafe. Listen here.

In The Telegraph, actor, playwright, director, and SFI Miller Scholar Sam Shepard talks about life, making movies...and hanging out at the Institute.

Success in competition between groups is more likely when competition and conflict within groups is moderated, says SFI Professor Sam Bowles in an essay describing how human institutions and nations, aided by conflict, could have evolved in human society.

As metro areas get larger their metabolic rate essentially speeds up, making them more productive and inventive, and greener, according to an article in The Atlantic that cites SFI's cities research.

In the Huffington Post, SFI's Dan Rockmore and David Krakauer imagine a vastly different university of the future -- decentralized, infused with information technologies, and rich in transdisciplinary collaboration.

In an interview for Legg Mason Capital Management, SFI Trustee Michael Mauboussin interviews frequent SFI collaborator Ole Peters on the science of risk and reward, the limitations of traditional economic theory, and building optimal portfolios.

In a new study, SFI's Rogier Braakman and SFI's Eric Smith trace the development of life-sustaining chemistry on Earth and identify what they believe is the earliest ancestral form of carbon fixation.

In an SFI Community Lecture on April 9 in Santa Fe, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein considered intuition as an essential part of our moral and philosophical thinking. Watch the video here.

In Wired Jonah Lehrer, author of Imagine, cites SFI research suggesting that creativity is one natural outcome of urban living. But, the research points out, that creativity comes at a cost.

SFI Professor J. Doyne Farmer will lead the complexity economics program at INET@Oxford, a collaboration announced today between the James Martin School for the 21st Century at Oxford University and the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET).

On Colorado Public Radio, Tim Kohler describes how archeologists are using computer modeling to learn why the Puebloans left southwest Colorado in the late 1200's.

An essay in OpEd News asks which economic perspective will inform U.S. financial reform, and traces the history of economic theory, including SFI's founding and the its role in the advent of "complexity economics."

In a February community lecture, Brian Christian shared his experiences as a "confederate" in an annual man vs. computer "Turing Test," offering insights on ways computers are reshaping what it means to be human. Watch his presentation here.

New research by Erol Akçay (Princeton) and SFI Omidyar Fellow Jeremy Van Cleve demonstrates the crucial role flexible behaviors might play in the evolution of high levels of group cooperation.

SFI has named evolutionary anthropologist Paul Hooper as a new Omidyar Fellow for 2012.

By turning HIV’s chief weapon, its rapid evolution, against itself, SFI External Professor Bette Korber and her team may have created a vaccine that can teach the immune system to recognize many different forms of the virus.

A market behavior known as herding is not as important a trend as economists previously assumed, according to a recent paper by SFI Professors Doyne Farmer and Fabrizio Lillo and their colleagues.

A recent working group at SFI explored the cultural processes that give rise to social monogamy and examined a number of different explanations for its persistence in many human societies.

After the 2010 flash crash, economists wondered whether high-frequency computerized trading might present a whole new market ecology. In Wired, SFI Professor Doyne Farmer weighs in.

"Supergeneralist" hunter-gatherers on Sanak Island, Alaska, were likely able to keep the ecosystem stable by switching prey when a particular species became harder to catch, according to a research by SFI Professor Jennifer Dunne and colleagues.

Florence Nightingale advised that bringing fresh air into hospitals would help prevent the spread of disease. A recent study co-authored by SFI External Professor Jessica Green provides support for the idea.

Cities are a source of many of the world's most pressing problems. But urbanization might also offer their solutions, according to SFI Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West in an online video.

The complex web of predator-prey relationships in the Adriatic Sea have shifted, suggesting human harvesting is taking a toll, according to research by SFI Professor Jennifer Dunne and colleagues.

SFI Trustee Cormac McCarthy has eradicated semicolons, exclamation points, and other prose problems as a volunteer copy editor for two recent books about science.

In a video interview at CERN, SFI Distinguished Fellow Murray Gell-Mann discusses supersymmetry, the Higgs field, simplicity vs. complexity in physics, and SFI-style collaboration.