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Typical recession and recovery economic behavior offers great stock market buying opportunities.

In their op-ed for STAT, former SFI postdoctoral fellow Laurent Hébert-Dufresne (University of Vermont) and current postdoc Vicky Chuqiao Yang, Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow and Peters Hurst Scholar, argue that if scientists hope to develop better epidemiological models, they must grasp the complex interplay between social behavior and disease.

The analogies we live by are shaping our thoughts about our current situation.

Physical distancing is necessary for reducing infections, but the timing of restrictive confinement makes all the difference.

A “mobilize and transition” strategy could reduce COVID-19 mortality while cushioning the economic decline.
 

We can use social media data to detect signatures of global crises, including early warning signs.

The disease models used to guide policy for the COVID-19 pandemic must capture key complexities of transmission.

On March 31, five speakers from epidemiology and economics discussed strategies for both public health and economic recovery, and answered questions from the SFI community.

SFI External Professor Joshua Epstein states the contagion of fear is as significant to the current pandemic as the novel coronavirus itself.

By using transmission to our advantage, we can eliminate coronavirus through citizen-based medicine.

Philip Anderson, a theoretical physicist who wrote rules that dictate the strange behavior of condensed matter and lent his deep intuition to problems beyond physics, died on March 29, 2020.

Getting the quarantine end game right means thinking about how to change thinking itself.

To forecast the spread of the novel coronavirus, we must attend to the quality and consistency of the data.

Group size matters when it comes to how many people should gather in one place. Let's use mathematical models to pin down consistent guidelines for complicated situations.

In a complex crisis, scientists cannot avoid making value judgments.

With the rapid global spread of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, the Santa Fe Institute has suspended all public events and scientific meetings. Check here for live updates.

SFI's President David Krakauer announces the Institute's suspension of visitor-related programs due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

What would life on Earth be were it not for the domestication of plants and animals? An SFI working group, "Re-evaluating the Origins and Trajectories of Domestication," running March 9-11, explores "the nature of relationships between human groups and lots of different plants and animals."

Event Cancelled In this SFI Community Lecture on March 24, Sara Walker, an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist interested in the origin of life, will guide us through approaches aimed at developing a new theory for understanding life.

Abrupt environmental changes, known as regime shifts, are the subject of new research in which shows how small environmental changes trigger slow evolutionary processes that eventually precipitate collapse.