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Forbes: The Well-Heeled Professoriate: Socioeconomic Backgrounds Of University Faculty

Featuring resaerch by by SFI External Professor Aaron Clauset, SFI Professor Mirta Galesic, former Omidyar Fellow Daniel Larremore, and CU Boulder co-authors Nicholas LaBerge and Allison Way.

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Boston Globe: COVID cases are going up in Mass. Vaccination rates are mostly flat. So what does that mean?

Quoting SFI External Professor Sam Scarpino.

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Santa Fe Reporter: Listen Up

Spotlighting an SFI seminar on vaccination distribution by former Omidyar Fellow Dan Larremore.

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The Economist: Efforts to modernise economics teaching are gathering steam

Cited a paper by SFI External Profesor Wendy Carlin and SFI Professor Sam Bowles, and featuring work by their CORE econ team, which includes External Professor Simon DeDeo, former Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Marion Dumas, External Professor Suresh Naidu, and External Professor Rajiv Sethi.

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Bloomberg: Masters in Business podcast: Bill Gurley on Entrepreneurs and Technology

Interviewing SFI Trustee Bill Gurley.

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Scientific American: Five reasons why COVID herd immunity is probably impossible

Quoting SFI External Professors Lauren Ancel Meyers and Sam Scarpino.

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ABC15: Video games providing new avenues for stroke rehabilitation

Featuring research by SFI External Professor John Krakauer.

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The Jim Rutt Show: Doug Erwin on the Cambrian Explosion

Interviewing SFI External Professor Doug Erwin.

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The New York Times: 14 Lessons for the Next Pandemic

With a contribution from SFI External Professor Lauren Ancel Meyers.

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TWIML AI podcast: Melanie Mitchell Complexity and Intelligence

Interviewing SFI Davis Professor of Complexity Melanie Mitchell.

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InsideClimateNews: Maryland Thought Deregulating Utilities Would Lower Rates. It’s Cost the State’s Residents Hundreds of Millions of Dollars.

Quoting SFI External Professor Seth Blumsack.

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Good Chemistry podcast: Social Networks, Dominance Hierarchies, & Learning to Code

Interviewing former Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Elizabeth Hobson.

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Seth's Blog: Voting for Fela

Featuring research by SFI External Professor Scott Page

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Closer to Truth podcast: Daniel Dennett on Free Will: Philosohy and Moral Responsibility

Interviewing SFI External Professor Daniel Dennett.

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Fast Company: What the 1918 pandemic can tell us about a post-COVID-19 world

Quoting SFI External Professor Andrew Lo.

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The Telegraph: ‘Never again’: the race to prevent the next pandemic

Featuring research by SFI External Professor Andrew Dobson and colleagues.

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VICE: Motherboard: Scientists Create Self-Replicating Chemicals to Help Explain the Origins of Life

Featuring new research by SFI External Professor Juan Perez Mercader and his Harvard colleagues.

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Cape Gazette: Science and Society lecture to host ‘The Big Picture’ author March 16

Announcing a lecture by External Professor Sean Carroll.

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News Medical: Researchers study prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 UK variant at University of Texas

Featuring research by SFI External Professor Lauren Ancel Meyers and SFI Professor Michael Lachmann.

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Paste: Julien Baker on the Art of Trauma and a Million Other Different Thoughts

Citing SFI Fellow Cormac McCarthy's interview with Oprah Winfrey at the SFI campus.

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