Exploring complex social systems with a quantitative approach involves abstracting rich and nuanced data. Many tools for ...

In his new monograph, Kierkegaard’s Concept of the Interesting: The Aesthetic Gulf in “Either/Or” I, SFI Research Fellow ...

A new study in Theory and Society shows that the printing of witch-hunting manuals, particularly the Malleus maleficarum in ...

Articulating and Formalizing Theories of Biological Information” met as part of an ambitious project to develop an ...

In the world of science journalism, a variety of fellowships offer opportunities to build skills, network, and find story ...

SFI External Professor Tanmoy Bhattacharya (Los Alamos National Laboratory) has been elected as a fellow of the American ...

In the past, a person might be diagnosed with hysteria — a mental condition for which no useful treatment could be possible, ...

It is shown that the distribution of word frequencies for randomly generated texts is very similar to Zipf's law observed in natural languages such as English. The facts that the frequency of ...

SFI External Professor Andrea J. Liu (University of Pennsylvania) is the recipient of the APS 2025 Leo P. Kadanoff Prize, the American Physical Society announced on October 15. Liu is a statistical ...