“To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.” —Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (1953)1 Jeremy England…

Cosmic microwaves and crime.

Have you heard the one about the biologist, the physicist, and the mathematician? They’re all sitting in a cafe watching people…

When the German physicist Arnold Sommerfeld assigned his most brilliant student a subject for his doctoral thesis in 1923, he admitted…

In the following five short chapters, David Krakauer, an evolutionary theorist, and president elect of the Santa Fe Institute, haven…

Here’s how to cause a ruckus: Ask a bunch of naturalists to simplify the world. We usually think in terms of a web of complicated…

Remember domino theory? One country going Communist was supposed to topple the next, and then the next, and the next. The metaphor…

There is a classic paper of Shannon from 1950 (linked below) in which he estimates the entropy of the English language to be about 1 bit per character.…

How do schools of fish swim in harmony? How do the tiny cells in your brain give rise to the complex thoughts, memories, and consciousness that are you? Oddly enough, those questions have the same general answer. Nathan S. Jacobs explains the concept of emergence…

Could soap bubbles be used to predict the strength of hurricanes and typhoons? However unexpected it may sound, this question prompted physicists at the Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d'Aquitaine (CNRS, ...

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Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University

Trustee, Science Board and Distinguished Fellow, Santa Fe Institute

Lecture II - What Is Stability in Today's Complex Financial Systems?

Santa Fe Institute's Geoffrey West speaks about what companies can learn from the innovation of cities.

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On September 24th, Linda Boff, CMO of General Electric, Bea Perez, Chief Sustainability Officer of Coca-Cola, Geoffrey West of Santa…