Lit Hub: How Storytellers Use Math (Without Scaring People Away)
A book review by SFI External Professor Dan Rockmore.
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The Week: Why some artificial intelligence is smart until it's dumb
Quoting SFI Davis Professor Melanie Mitchell and citing her book AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans.
Salon: Is it time to kill calculus?
An op-ed by SFI External Professor Dan Rockmore.
MSN: After His Son Co-Founded Coursera, He Became Its Earliest Student and Completed 146 Courses
Highlighting five educational courses through SFI's Complexity Explorer courses— Intro to Complexity, Fractals and Scaling, Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling, Introduction to Dynamical Systems and Chaos, and Origin of Life.
Linked In: Cities and Economic Growth After the Pandemic?
Featuring research by SFI Distinguished Shannan Professor Geoffrey West.
NPR's WHYY: Confronting Implicit Biases
Interviewing SFI External Professor Mahzarin Banaji.
Business Insider: Workplace power dynamics have shifted further away from workers and toward employers — and it's only getting worse. Here's how workers can push back.
Featuring insights from SFI External Professor Suresh Naidu, originally broadcast in the Pitchfork Economics podcast.
Singularity FM: Melanie Mitchell on AI: Intelligence is a Complex Phenomenon
Interviewing SFI Davis Professor Melanie Mitchell.
Pitchfork Economics: The Powerlessness of Forced Labor (With Suresh Naidu)
Featuring SFI External Professor Suresh Naidu.
Smithsonian: Researchers Say Purpose of Sleep Shifts During 'Terrible Twos'
Featuring new research by SFI External Professor Van Savage, Shannan Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West, and their colleagues.
Cosmos: Surprising insights into sleep's purpose
Featuring new research by SFI External Professor Van Savage, Shannan Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West, and their colleagues.
New Scientist: The purpose of sleep appears to change when we are toddlers
Featuring new research by SFI External Professor Van Savage, Shannan Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West, and their colleagues.
Scientific American: How New Mexico Controlled the Spread of COVID-19
Quoting SFI External Professor Lauren Ancel Meyers.
Santa Fe Reporter: Listen Up
Highlighting Episode 41 of SFI's Complexity podcast, with Postdoctoral Fellow Natalie Greffenstette.
Los Alamos Daily Post: Neeper: Has Social Complexity Acquired AI?
Quoting SFI Professor Cris Moore.
The Good Men Project: Let the Institutional Innovation Begin!
Featuring work by SFI Professor Sam Bowles and SFI External Professor Wendy Carlin.
Ensia: Opinion: We need massive societal change if we're going to survive and thrive on Earth
Citing a recent Aeon essay by SFI Professors Jessica Flack and Melanie Mitchell.
KSFR: The Last Word: September 10, 2020 Gary F. Bengier
Interviewing SFI Trustee Gary Bengier on the topic of his new sci-fi novel, Unfettered Journey.
Aeon: Origin story
Featuring SFI Professor Chris Kempes, External Professor Eric Smith, External Professor Sara Walker, and President David Krakauer.
Washington Post: Experts warn U.S. covid-19 deaths could more than double by year’s end
Quoting SFI External Professor Lauren Ancel Meyers.