The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is an independent, nonprofit theoretical research institute located in Santa Fe (New Mexico, United States) and dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the fundamental principles of complex adaptive systems, including physical, computational, biological, and social systems. The Institute houses a small number of resident faculty, who collaborate with many affiliated and visiting scholars. Although theoretical scientific research is the Institute's primary focus, it hosts a number of complex systems summer schools, internships, and other educational programs throughout the year. The Institute's annual funding is derived primarily from private donors, grant-making foundations, government science agencies, and companies affiliated with its Business Network. The Santa Fe Institute was founded in 1984 by scientists George Cowan, David Pines, Stirling Colgate, Murray Gell-Mann, Nick Metropolis, Herb Anderson, Peter A. Carruthers, and Richard Slansky.
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Traditional disease-monitoring systems are ill-equipped to handle the recent unprecedented outbreaks of climate-aggravated diseases. In a viewpoint article published in Science Translational Medicine, SFI's Samuel Scarpino ...
Oct 31, 2023
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In the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers around the world were faced with decisions that pitted human health against the economy. Before we had tests, vaccines, or even a solid understanding of disease ...
May 31, 2023
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Much research has been done on the effectiveness of masks to mitigate the spread of infectious diseases. However, standard infection models tend to focus only on disease states, overlooking the dynamics of a complex paradox: ...
Jun 24, 2022
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The rise of the BA.2 Omicron variant—first in Europe and East Asia and now in the U.S.—makes it clear that the pandemic isn't done with us, and it isn't likely to be anytime soon—unless we achieve very high vaccination ...
Mar 22, 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic tested our institutions and societies, from the global to the local, in unprecedented ways. And the sheer speed of the novel coronavirus's spread meant that scientists, public health officials and medical ...
Nov 9, 2021
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Citizen opposition to COVID-19 vaccination has emerged across the globe, prompting pushes for mandatory vaccination policies. But a new study based on evidence from Germany and on a model of the dynamic nature of people's ...
Jun 7, 2021
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Since early in the COVID-19 pandemic, parents, teachers, and school administrators have faced difficult questions regarding when and how to safely reopen for in-person learning. During the 2020-2021 fall semester, school ...
Mar 30, 2021
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The "bullshit asymmetry principle" tells us that it takes far more energy to disprove bullshit than it takes to generate bullshit. In a world full of misleading statistics, gaslighting politicians and press-release-driven ...
Sep 30, 2020
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We are all tired of the pandemic. We'd like to wake up one day and have life returned to normal. A big step towards normalcy would be allowing schools to open in the fall. Schools provide education, social environments, and ...
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As the world faces the possibility of recurring waves of the current novel coronavirus pandemic, it is critical to identify patterns and dynamics that could be leveraged to decrease future transmission, infection, and death ...
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