In late December 2025, SFI External Professor Wendy Carlin was appointed the title Dame Commander of the Order of the British ...
Biologists at UCLA used a natural experiment during the COVID-19 lockdowns to study the effects of human activity on urban ...
In his biography of Elon Musk, historian Walter Isaacson describes a game of Texas Hold ‘Em poker in which Musk went all in — on every hand. “Isaacson uses the anecdote to show that Elon Musk is a ...
The sudden emergence of witch trials in early modern Europe may have been fueled by one of humanity's most significant intellectual milestones: the invention of the printing press in 1450. “Cities ...
The SFI Press releases two updated editions — The Quark & the Jaguar and Strange Beauty — by and about SFI co-founder Murray Gell-Mann. The opening lines of Homer’s Odyssey describe its eponymous hero ...
“. . . the true heir to Melville and Faulkner." —Harold Bloom, literary critic. "Today feels to me like a terrible disaster where many of us lost a good friend, the Santa Fe Institute lost one of its ...
In anticipation of Cormac McCarthy’s newest books, “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris” (Knopf, 2022), former SFI Miller Scholar Laurence Gonzales recollects McCarthy’s long and ongoing friendship with ...
To make good decisions under uncertainty, decision- makers must act creatively to avoid paralysis, while recognizing the possibility of failure. The current COVID-19 pandemic presents decision-makers ...
Transmission is the Santa Fe Institute's real-time and ideas-based response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Many of our researchers are hard at work collaborating on the monitoring and modeling of the ...
Four thousand years ago, human societies underwent a fundamental transition when the rules governing how people interact shifted from oral custom to written laws: first captured in stone tablets such ...
In 1907, a statistician named Francis Galton recorded the entries from a weight-judging competition as people guessed the weight of an ox. Galton analyzed hundreds of estimates and found that while ...
John Holland, a pioneer in the study of complex adaptive systems and the leading figure in what became known as genetic algorithms, passed away Sunday morning, August 9, 2015, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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