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2012 at SFI: Asking big questions that matter

Jan. 3, 2012 11:28 a.m.

Santa Fe New Mexican

SFI President Jerry Sabloff tells readers of the Santa Fe New Mexican what the Institute does, and why 2012 is a year for asking big questions at SFI.

Big questions are questions that that are difficult to resolve and that are significant to humanity and to our world, he says. "Because these questions haven't yet been answered through traditional means, we assume their solutions are going to require some careful and unorthodox thinking — as well as methods from many different scientific fields," he writes.

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  • 03.27.12 - In mBio, SFI Science Board member Richard Lenski (Michigan State University) and colleagues describe their Black Queen Hypothesis, which they say explains how some of the needs of a microorganism can be met by other organisms, enabling microbes that rely on one another to live more efficiently by paring down the genes they have to carry around.
  • 03.27.12 - SFI External Professor John Harte (UC Berkeley) comments on a study showing that due to warmer temperatures, pine beetles in the Western US are breeding twice, rather than once, during a summer, a sign of biological responses to climate change (Associated Press)
  • 03.27.12 - SFI External Professor Sander van der Leeuw (Arizona State University) is among the participants at the March 26-29 Planet Under Pressure conference in London, which he says will "set the agenda" for worldwide sustainability science
  • 03.27.12 - Video gamers who are friends beyond the gaming world fare better in multiplayer online games than groups of gamers who are either strangers or online friends only, according to research by SFI Omidyar Fellow Alumnus Aaron Clauset (University of Colorado)
  • 03.27.12 - SFI External Professor Dan Rockmore (Dartmouth) playfully celebrates Pi Day in a three-minute podcast on Vermont Public Radio
  • 03.10.12 - External Professor John Rundle and other experts discuss the challenges and possibilities of earthquake prediction (Our Amazing Planet)
  • 03.10.12 - External Professor Dirk Helbing and colleagues, in a study examining whether prejudices might be rational under certain conditions, played game-theoretic scenarios 15 million times and concluded that those who are prejudiced are soon at a disadvantage
  • 03.10.12 - In quantum computing the Landauer limit is already being confronted, says External Professor Seth Lloyd (Nature)
  • 03.10.12 - Professor Samuel Bowles and External Professor Herbert Gintis studied cooperation among 16 of the last hunter-gatherer societies in the world and found that the closer we get to a state of nature the more cooperative we become, according to The Guardian (U.K.)
  • 03.10.12 - Jonah Lehrer, author of a new book on creativity and innovation, cites Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West's views on the role of the city in fostering innovation (Forbes)
  • 03.10.12 - Professor Cris Moore comments on a recent paper that examined network connectivity that leads to breakdown and connectivity that leads to system resilience (PC World)
  • 02.28.12 - A Q&A with SFI Science Board member Lord Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, explores how ecosystem science can illuminate problems in the world of banking (mortgagestrategy.com)
  • 02.28.12 - SFI Science Board member and External Professor Nina Fedoroff says scientists are "scared to death" about the resources available to opponents of science, leading to the corruption of science for political ends (Yale Daily News)
  • 02.22.12 - SFI External Professor Mark Pagel discusses the acquisition of culture as the defining moment in human history -- and his book "Wired for Culture" -- in an online Q&A (The Guardian)
  • 02.21.12 - Science is under attack, says SFI External Professor and AAAS President Nina Fedoroff, and we can't seem to even get a conversation going (The Guardian)
  • 02.21.12 - At the 2012 AAAS meeting, SFI External Professor Sander van der Leeuw said roads helped modernize small isolated villages, but also destroyed their social fabrics and changed the economy of their landscapes
  • 02.21.12 - SFI Science Board member and External Professor Daniel Schrag weighs in on the prospects for carbon capture and storage (Truthout)
  • 02.13.12 - SFI Professor Sam Bowles takes on the New Mexico minimum wage in the Santa Fe New Mexican
  • 02.13.12 - SFI External Professor W. Brian Arthur's thoughts about the digital economy are discussed in a book review of Robert Harris's new book "The Fear Index" (New York Times)
  • 02.13.12 - Prior to the 2012 AAAS meeting, AAAS President and SFI External Professor Nina Fedoroff argues for global collaboration in seeking solutions to humankind's toughest problems (Vacnouver Sun)
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  • 02.03.12 - SFI Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West's view of companies as biological organisms that grow, stabilize, and eventually die is cited as evidence for Apple's mortality in a review of a new book about the company (Forbes)
  • 02.01.12 - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded MIT's Education Arcade, led by SFI Science Board member Eric Klopfer, a $3 million grant to research, design, and build a massively multiplayer online game to help high school students learn math and biology.
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  • 01.26.12 - "Evolution," a new undergraduate textbook by SFI External Professor Carl Bergstrom and Lee Alan Dugatkin, presents a contemporary view of the rapidly changing field (Norton, December 2011)
  • 01.26.12 - President Obama selected a mentoring program led by SFI External Professor Carlos Castillo-Chavez for a 2011 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Math, and Engineering Mentoring (Arizona State University news)
  • 01.24.12 - SFI External Professor and AAAS President Nina Fedoroff discusses world population, science, and the case for genetically modified crops with EarthSky.com
  • 01.24.12 - Statistical analyses of recent elections by SFI External Professor Stefan Thurner and colleagues at the University of Vienna reveal possible funny business in Russia and Uganda (Science News)
  • 01.17.12 - SFI Science Board member Richard Lenski comments on the significance of recent experiments showing that yeast cells evolve simple multicellular bodies relatively quickly (New York Times)
  • 01.17.12 - In an article about the effective communication of climate science, journalist Andrew Revkin re-posts a 2010 video interview of SFI Distinguished Professor and Trustee Murray Gell-Mann discussing the influences of random variation, cyclical patterns, and trends in climate (New York Times)
  • 01.11.12 - SFI External Professor Scott Page argues in an article about worldwide gender equity that economic development, innovation, and entrepreneurship are associated with higher levels of cultural and demographic diversity. (Source: The Atlantic)
  • 01.03.12 - A feature article on the career of Stephen Hawking mentions recent research Hawking and SFI External Professor Jim Hartle have done seeking a deeper understanding of cosmic inflation.
  • 01.03.12 - Audio: SFI Science Board member Lord Robert May weighs in on this year's top submissions to the BBC's regular feature on ideas to improve the world.

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