Skip to content
TrackPodcasts

COMPLEXITY

Santa Fe Institute

EN119 episodes
sciencelifemathematicsnature

The official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. Subscribe now and be part of the exploration!

Get every episode summarized

Each time COMPLEXITY publishes, we email you a written briefing from the transcript — the topics, who appeared, and any specific claims, with the ad reads skipped.

Email me new episodes

Free for 3 shows. No card needed.

Is this your show?

Claim it: a verified badge, every new episode summarised to your inbox, and first say over how it is presented here.

Claim this show

Episodes (119)

Lauren Klein on Data Feminism (Part 1): Surfacing Invisible Labor

COMPLEXITY

Oct 23, 202146:10pending

W. Brian Arthur (Part 2) on "Prim Dreams of Order vs. Messy Vitality" in Economi...

COMPLEXITY

Oct 7, 20211:03:09pending

W. Brian Arthur on Economics in Nouns and Verbs (Part 1)

COMPLEXITY

Sep 24, 202151:56pending

Tyler Marghetis on Breakdowns & Breakthroughs: Critical Transitions in Jazz & Ma...

COMPLEXITY

Sep 8, 20211:04:19pending

Katherine Collins on Better Investing Through Biomimicry

COMPLEXITY

Aug 14, 20211:06:28pending

Deborah Gordon on Ant Colonies as Distributed Computers

COMPLEXITY

Jul 30, 202154:15pending

Reconstructing Ancient Superhighways with Stefani Crabtree and Devin White

COMPLEXITY

Jul 16, 20211:06:01pending

Mark Ritchie on A New Thermodynamics of Biochemistry, Part 2

COMPLEXITY

Jul 1, 202145:48pending

Mark Ritchie on A New Thermodynamics of Biochemistry, Part 1

COMPLEXITY

Jun 17, 202140:45pending

Andrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 2: Humboldt's Dangerous Idea

COMPLEXITY

Jun 4, 202148:54pending

Andrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 1: Humboldt's Naturegemälde

COMPLEXITY

May 21, 202151:08pending

Sidney Redner on Statistics and Everyday Life

COMPLEXITY

May 7, 202157:59pending

Orit Peleg on the Collective Behavior of Honeybees & Fireflies

COMPLEXITY

Apr 23, 20211:00:58pending

Jonas Dalege on The Physics of Attitudes & Beliefs

COMPLEXITY

Apr 8, 202147:40pending

J. Doyne Farmer on The Complexity Economics Revolution

COMPLEXITY

Mar 26, 20211:04:00pending

James Evans on Social Computing and Diversity by Design

COMPLEXITY

Mar 12, 20211:00:11pending

David Stork on AI Art History

COMPLEXITY

Feb 26, 20211:00:23pending

Alien Crash Site Invades Complexity: Tamara van der Does on Sci-Fi Science, with...

COMPLEXITY

Feb 12, 202150:08pending

Mark Moffett on Canopy Biology & The Human Swarm

COMPLEXITY

Jan 29, 20211:12:05pending

Cris Moore on Algorithmic Justice & The Physics of Inference

COMPLEXITY

Jan 15, 20211:11:40pending

Science in The Time of COVID: Michael Lachmann & Sam Scarpino on Lessons from Th...

COMPLEXITY

Dec 23, 202059:14pending

Artemy Kolchinsky on "Semantic Information" & The Physics of Meaning

COMPLEXITY

Dec 11, 20201:01:51pending

Peter Dodds on Text-Based Timeline Analysis & New Instruments for The Science of...

COMPLEXITY

Nov 26, 20201:30:23pending

Scott Ortman on Archaeological Synthesis and Settlement Scaling Theory

COMPLEXITY

Nov 11, 202054:54pending

Helena Miton on Cultural Evolution in Music and Writing Systems

COMPLEXITY

Oct 29, 20201:01:44pending

David Wolpert on The No Free Lunch Theorems and Why They Undermine The Scientifi...

COMPLEXITY

Oct 14, 202052:13pending

Vicky Yang & Henrik Olsson on Political Polling & Polarization: How We Make Deci...

COMPLEXITY

Sep 30, 20201:10:09pending

Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West on Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data...

COMPLEXITY

Sep 16, 202058:44pending

Natalie Grefenstette on Agnostic Biosignature Detection

COMPLEXITY

Sep 2, 202056:52pending

The Information Theory of Biology & Origins of Life with Sara Imari Walker (Big...

COMPLEXITY

Aug 12, 20201:06:51pending

Fractal Conflicts & Swing Voters with Eddie Lee

COMPLEXITY

Jul 23, 20201:02:35pending

Fighting Hate Speech with AI & Social Science (with Joshua Garland, Mirta Galesi...

COMPLEXITY

Jul 15, 20201:05:48pending

The Art & Science of Resilience in the Wake of Trauma with Laurence Gonzales

COMPLEXITY

Jul 6, 202059:23pending

Geoffrey West on Scaling, Open-Ended Growth, and Accelerating Crisis/Innovation...

COMPLEXITY

Jun 25, 202058:18pending

Scaling Laws & Social Networks in The Time of COVID-19 with Geoffrey West (Part...

COMPLEXITY

Jun 17, 202049:30pending

Better Scientific Modeling for Ecological & Social Justice with David Krakauer (...

COMPLEXITY

Jun 8, 202040:03pending

The Future of the Human Climate Niche with Tim Kohler & Marten Scheffer

COMPLEXITY

Jun 2, 202056:35pending

Exponentials, Economics, and Ecology with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep...

COMPLEXITY

May 11, 202047:28pending

Embracing Complexity for Systemic Interventions with David Krakauer (Transmissio...

COMPLEXITY

May 4, 202044:55pending

Rethinking Our Assumptions During the COVID-19 Crisis with David Krakauer (Trans...

COMPLEXITY

Apr 27, 202051:13pending

On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity with David Krakauer (Transmissi...

COMPLEXITY

Apr 20, 202044:11pending

Caroline Buckee on Improving COVID-19 Surveillance & Response

COMPLEXITY

Apr 17, 202045:05pending

COVID-19 & Complex Time in Biology & Economics with David Krakauer (Transmission...

COMPLEXITY

Apr 13, 202042:21pending

Rigorous Uncertainty: Science During COVID-19 with David Krakauer (Transmission...

COMPLEXITY

Apr 6, 202047:04pending

Sam Scarpino on Modeling Disease Transmission & Interventions

COMPLEXITY

Apr 1, 202028:32pending

Laurent Hébert-Dufresne on Halting the Spread of COVID-19

COMPLEXITY

Mar 26, 202049:14pending

Andy Dobson on Epidemic Modeling for COVID-19

COMPLEXITY

Mar 19, 202036:14pending

Nicole Creanza on Cultural Evolution in Humans & Songbirds

COMPLEXITY

Mar 12, 20201:06:19pending

Melanie Mitchell on Artificial Intelligence: What We Still Don't Know

COMPLEXITY

Mar 5, 20201:17:16pending

Albert Kao on Animal Sociality & Collective Computation

COMPLEXITY

Feb 27, 202052:38pending