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How do we fix the ‘dating problem’ in archaeology?

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SFI News + Events

Stuart Firestein joins Fractal Faculty

Virtual workshop takes a hard think about thinking

SFI working group fits missing piece to statistics of complex systems

Researchers play devil’s advocate to explore where algorithms can't

External Professor André de Roos shakes up established ideas in theoretical ecology

Virtual topical meeting takes stock of market risk and social media

David Krakauer: Beyond Borders: The End of Narrative

Simon DeDeo: Ian and the Limits of Rationality (Nautilus)

Orit Peleg: Living Orbs of Light (Aeon)

Seth Blumsack: Long power outages aren't inevitable (The Conversation)

Research brief: Social science for algorithmic societies

SFI Community Event: "Adventures of a Mathematician" film screening and Q&A

Research brief: A new tool for comparing researchers

Research brief: Study shows impacts of deforestation and forest burning on Amazon biodiversity

Van Savage and Geoffrey West: Why do we sleep? (Aeon)

For a comprehensive guide to cities as complex systems, read Luis Bettencourt's new book

A statistical fix for archaeology's dating problem

Researchers reconstruct major branches in the tree of language

In memoriam: Douglas White

New Complexity Explorer tutorial teaches Open Science