Santa Fe Institute

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.

Small environmental changes trigger slow evolutionary processes that eventually precipitate collapse

Wisdom of the crowd corrected for bias gets accurate

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 individual guesses varied wildly, the median of the entries was surprisingly accurate and within one percent of the ox’s real weight. When Galton published

Wisdom of the crowd corrected for bias gets accurate

Why innovation thrives in cities

Double a city’s population and its economic productivity goes up 130 percent. MIT researchers think they know why. In 2010, in the journal Nature, a pair of physicists at the Santa Fe Institute showed that when the population of a city doubles, economic productivity goes up by an average of 130 percent. Not only does total productivity

Why innovation thrives in cities

How men and women organize their (online) social networks differently

Men and women socialize differently, and it turns out these gender differences hold true in online games that involve social interaction. A new quantitative study of data assembled from the online multiplayer game Pardus shows how females and males manage their social networks drastically differently. “It is fascinating that we maybe see traces of

How men and women organize their (online) social networks differently

More Jobs Predicted for Machines, Not People

Many workers, in short, are losing the race against the machine A faltering economy explains much of the job shortage in America, but advancing technology has sharply magnified the effect, more so than is generally understood, according to two researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The automation of more and more work once done

More Jobs Predicted for Machines, Not People

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Annual review of campaign finances resumes in New Mexico
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — After a four-year hiatus, state election regulators have resumed spot-checks on campaign finance disclosures by politicians, election candidates and political committees ...
Former Cabinet secretary defends auto dealerships from Tesla
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A recently retired state Cabinet secretary who oversaw New Mexico's first major foray into electric vehicles for government fleets has gone to work at a lobbying group for ...
Correction: Election 2022-Energy-New Mexico story
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — In a story published October 4, 2021, about New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s speech to a group of oil and gas executives, The Associated Press erroneously reporte ...

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Three U.S.-based economists win Nobel for research on wages, jobs - Santa Fe New Mexican
October 12, 2021
Cyberattacks concerning to most in U.S.: Pearson/AP-NORC poll - Santa Fe New Mexican
October 12, 2021
Simple Mathematical Law Predicts Movement in Cities around the World - Scientific American
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Trunk or Treat at Carson Mall parking lot happening this Saturday
Come and Join us for a trunk-or-treat at the Carson Mall in Carson City. This event is open to all and any cars! Please provide your own wrapped candy & decorate your trunk! The event is happening ...
Spanish volcano eruption shuts airport, area still ‘tense’
The airport on the Spanish island of La Palma shut down again Thursday due to ashfall from a volcano that has been erupting for almost three weeks. Scientists said the course of the ...
More than 120,000 US kids had caregivers die during pandemic
The number of U.S. children orphaned during the COVID-19 pandemic may be larger than previously estimated, and the toll has been far greater among Black and Hispanic Americans, a ...
Everything you need to know about Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta this year
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