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June 1, 2020

Transmission T-031: Melanie Moses and Kathy Powers on models that protect the vulnerable

Well-mixed models do not protect the vulnerable in segregated societies.

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June 1, 2020

Transmission T-033: Brian Enquist on how pandemics rapidly reshape the evolutionary & ecological landscape

Pandemics rapidly reshape the evolutionary and ecological landscape and have cascading social, economic, and other system-level effects.

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June 1, 2020

Transmission T-032: Jon Machta on the noisy equilibrium of disease containment & economic pain

The countervailing pressures of economic pain and disease containment are keeping the COVID-19 pandemic at a noisy equilibrium.

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June 1, 2020

Transmission T-030: David Krakauer and Dan Rockmore on out-evolving COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to out-evolve the virus by evolving our own scientific ingenuity and social practices.

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May 13, 2020

Transmission: SFI insights into COVID-19

To present expert perspectives on the complexities of the COVID-19 pandemic, SFI has launched an online series called “Transmission.”

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May 4, 2020

Transmission T-029: David Wolpert on SARS-CoV-2 and Landauer's bound

The concept of the extended phenotype provides a way to circumvent Landauer’s bound.

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May 4, 2020

Transmission T-028: Sidney Redner on exponential growth processes

Forecasting ambiguity is inevitable in exponential growth processes that underlie epidemics.

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May 4, 2020

Transmission T-027: Pamela Yeh and Ian MacGregor-Fors on studying wildlife in empty cities

COVID-19 lockdowns provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study wildlife in empty cities. 

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May 4, 2020

Transmission T-026: Eric Maskin on mechanism design for the market

Mechanism design can aid the market in meeting extraordinary needs under unusual circumstances.

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May 4, 2020

Transmission T-025: Chris Kempes and Geoffrey West on understanding cities to respond to pandemics

Policies for responding to pandemics should be rooted in a scientific understanding of cities. 

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April 27, 2020

Transmission T-024: Cristopher Moore on the heavy tail of outbreaks

R0 is just an average: the transmission rate varies widely, and outbreaks can be surprisingly large even when the epidemic is subcritical. 

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April 27, 2020

Transmission T-023: David Tuckett, Lenny Smith, Gerd Gigerenzer, and Jürgen Jost on making good decisions under uncertainty

To make good decisions under uncertainty, decision-makers must act creatively to avoid paralysis, while recognizing the possibility of failure.

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April 27, 2020

Transmission T-022: Van Savage on the informational pitfalls of selective testing

https://santafe.edu/people/profile/david-krakauerTest kits cannot exponentiate at the same rate as the virus. Unless we ramp up to 500K, the curve will flatten due to artifact.

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April 27, 2020

Transmission T-021: Stefani Crabtree on what history can teach us about resilience

The archaeological record can teach us much about cultural resilience and how to adapt to exogenous threats.

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April 27, 2020

Transmission T-020: John Krakauer and Michelle Carlson on COVID spiraling frailty syndrome

Exercise is a complex medicine that can make seniors less susceptible to frailty, and thus to COVID-19. To help the medicine go down, we need a systematic approach to improving the one technology that we know keeps people on task.

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April 20, 2020

Transmission T-018: Sidney Redner on quantitative ways to consider the economic impact of COVID-19

Common-sense estimates provide quantitative ways to think about the economic impact of COVID-19 in Italy.

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April 20, 2020

Transmission T-017: Stephanie Forrest on privacy concerns that arise with the pandemic

Complexity science and computer algorithms can help us address privacy concerns that arise with the pandemic.

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April 20, 2020

Transmission T-016: Carrie Cowan on the future of education

American higher education must think outside the academy in a post-pandemic world.

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April 20, 2020

Transmission T-015: Anthony Eagan on Federalism in the time of pandemic

It is important to keep in mind that as agents we maintain bottom-up control, even if we lack decisive power.

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April 13, 2020

Transmission T-014: Doug Erwin on Not Letting a Crisis Go to Waste

Beyond our response to the pandemic itself lie the longer-term effects, including new opportunities — social, political, economic, and otherwise.

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