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September 1, 2014

Della Vigil’s straw appliqué wins 2014 Spanish Market honor

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August 22, 2014

SFI's Mercedes Pascual receives MacArthur Award in ecology

SFI External Professor and Science Board member Mercedes Pascual has been awarded the Ecological Society of America's prestigious Robert H. MacArthur Award.

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August 12, 2014

Video - Watch Steven Strogatz's SFI Community Lecture 'The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math'

In an August 6 SFI Community Lecture in Santa Fe, mathematician Steven Strogatz showed how math underpins our lives, from finding the perfect romantic partner to understanding how Google works. Watch the video.

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August 8, 2014

SFI's Project GUTS goes nationwide this school year

Beginning this school year, Code.org is bringing SFI's afterschool program Project GUTS (Growing Up Thinking Scientifically) to the nation's middle school science classrooms.

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August 5, 2014

Video: New documentary celebrates 50 years of BASIC

SFI External Professor Dan Rockmore is co-creator of a new documentary retelling the advent of the BASIC programming language 50 years ago at Dartmouth College.

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July 30, 2014

Melanie Moses selected for McDonnell Foundation's complex systems scholar award

SFI External Professor Melanie Moses has been awarded the James S. McDonnell Foundation's 21st Century Science Initiative in Studying Complex Systems – Scholar Award for 2014.

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July 30, 2014

Video: Watch Seth Lloyd's talk 'Is time travel possible? Testing the Grandfather Paradox'

In a July 16 SFI Community Lecture in Santa Fe, MITs Seth Lloyd proffered a mode of time travel that is both theoretically possible and creatively irresistible. Watch his talk.

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July 18, 2014

Better ways to forecast technological change

Experts are at SFI this summer examining how technology evolves, in part by building technological trophic networks akin to food webs describing feeding interactions in ecosystems. 

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July 17, 2014

Working group explores the 'frustration' of spin glasses

Experts invited to a five-day working group at SFI this week will seek a better understanding of spin glasses and how they work.

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July 14, 2014

Help crowdsource the Complexity Explorer

Complexity Explorer, an online education resource for complexity teachers and learners, is asking for your help. Here’s what you can do.

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June 30, 2014

Bill Miller on SFI: 'You come here to understand things in a different way'

A front-page Wall Street Journal article today profiles SFI Chair Emeritus Bill Miller, featuring his longtime relationship with SFI.

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June 27, 2014

Cities, slums, neighborhoods, people: Watch Luis Bettencourt's lecture

What is a city? In an SFI Community Lecture June 18 in Santa Fe, SFI Professor Luis Bettencourt peered inside the city, down to the data describing its neighborhoods and its people, for answers. Watch his talk.

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June 19, 2014

Mark Newman receives 2014 Lagrange Prize

SFI External Professor Mark Newman has been awarded the prestigious 2014 Lagrange Prize for research achievements in the sciences of complexity.

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June 3, 2014

Working paper: Ambiguous words probably make communicating easier

Ambiguity in language, including words with multiple meanings, actually make communication easier and may be an inevitable consequence of a language’s evolution, according to a new SFI working paper.

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May 30, 2014

How one conversation redirected an oncologist’s approach to cancer

A conversation between SFI’s Murray Gell-Mann, a physicist, and oncologist David Agus at the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival inspired Agus to change the way he thinks about cancer.

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May 28, 2014

SFI Bulletin is LIVE: Spring 2014 issue asks how life got complex

Our Spring 2014 issue of the SFI Bulletin, “How Life Got Complex,” asks why, and how, some biological systems on Earth have evolved to be ever-more complex, even intelligent.

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May 22, 2014

SFI's 2013 Annual Report: All about the Santa Fe Institute in one place

SFI's 2013 Annual Report is more than a comprehensive guide to the Santa Fe Institute. It's also a handy cheat sheet for our first-ever SFI trivia quiz. You could win a prize.

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May 19, 2014

Video: Daniel Dennett asks whether we need free will

In an SFI Community Lecture Wednesday, May 14, in Santa Fe, philosopher Daniel Dennett asked: if free will is an illusion, should we conclude that we don’t need real free will to be responsible for our actions? Watch the video.

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May 19, 2014

Workshop gives web-based disease tracking a checkup

A workshop this week at SFI asks how well web-based disease trackers like Google Flu Trends actually work, and seeks ways they can be made to work better.

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May 14, 2014

Nihat Ay to join SFI's resident faculty

Mathematician Nihat Ay will join SFI’s resident faculty beginning next summer, SFI Chair of Faculty and VP for Science Jennifer Dunne announced today.

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