Five millennia ago, wealth inequality — which had stayed roughly constant for thousands of years — exploded. It has stayed ...

Collective action can be highly effective within a community, but can be harder to achieve across communities. People who ...

SFI External Professors Alison Gopnik and Scott Page are among 120 new members of the National Academy of Sciences, announced ...

Humans learn by breaking through and plateauing, persisting and resting, and, occasionally, experiencing the blissful flow state. Mastering a skill can take decades, but the learning process unfolds ...

Hernandez-Suarez, C. M.,Castillo-Chavez, C.,Lopez, O. M.,Hernandez-Cuevas, K. In this work we consider every individual of a population to be a server whose state can be either busy (infected) or idle ...

Evidence supports the contention that humans find it costly to carry out some sorts of strategies. Such costs are unlikely to be observed directly, but various models have been proposed to represent ...

Burke, A.,Kandler, A.,Good, D. Differences between men and women in the performance of tests designed to measure spatial abilities are explained by evolutionary psychologists in terms of adaptive ...

We resolve several long-standing open questions regarding the power of various types of finite-state automata to recognize "picture languages," i.e. sets of two-dimensional arrays of symbols. We show ...

Understanding human socioeconomic development has proven to be one of the most difficult and persistent problems in science and policy. Recent developments suggest that the key to progress lies in the ...

Aggregating decisions from larger groups typically results in outcomes with higher accuracy than decision outcomes from single individuals or smaller groups. Here I argue that it is important to ...

Burger, J. R.,Allen, C. D.,Brown, J. H.,Burnside, W. R.,Davidson, A. D.,Fristoe, T. S.,Hamilton, M. J.,Mercado-Silva, N.,Nekola, J. C.,Okie, J. G.,Zuo, W. Y. The ...