The Coming Battle for the COVID-19 Narrative with Sam Bowles and Wendy Carlin
Exploring how COVID-19 could reshape economic narratives, policy approaches, and public understanding, emphasizing solidarity, duty, and community alongside traditional market considerations.
Andy Dobson on Disease Ecology & Conservation Strategy
Exploring disease ecology, conservation strategies, and complex systems thinking to address global challenges in biodiversity, economics, and public health through interdisciplinary research and innovative approaches.
Jennifer Dunne on Food Webs & ArchaeoEcology
Exploring human-nature interactions through food webs and archaeoecology, revealing our interconnectedness with ecosystems and challenging traditional ecological perspectives.
A Complex Systems Lens on Climate Policy
Exploring climate policy through complex systems, this talk offers innovative solutions to seemingly intractable environmental challenges, highlighting potential for rapid, transformative change in energy, transportation, and consumption.
A New Thermodynamics of Biochemistry - Part 2
Exploring thermodynamics in living systems, from cellular metabolism to ecosystems. Insights on climate change, agriculture, and the search for extraterrestrial life through a new lens of biochemistry and physics.
The Collapse of Ecosystems
Explore ecosystem collapse through the lens of mass extinctions, focusing on the End-Permian event and its aftermath. Gain insights into biodiversity patterns and ecological dynamics.
How on Earth Can Aliens Survive? Concept and Case Study
Explore evolutionary robustness, its breakdown, and implications for complex diseases. Delve into concepts like shifting balance theory and cultural evolution in this thought-provoking seminar.
A Fast Green Energy Transition - Economic Benefits and Climate Impact
Explore how a rapid shift to green energy could lead to significant cost savings and reshape global climate policy incentives, based on validated forecasting methods.
New Economics for a Successful Policy Paradigm
Explore a radical restructuring of economic theory integrating recent research and ethical commitments, addressing sustainability, equal dignity, and social injustice through dynamic, interdisciplinary approaches.
Averting Extinction: Lessons from Borneo's Last Hunter-Gatherers
Explore the unique culture of Borneo's Cave Punan, their message stick communication system, and efforts to preserve their ancestral forests and biodiversity in the face of deforestation and modernization.
Glacial Optics: Creating Lenses from Arctic Ice for Glacier Photography
Explore an artist's Arctic expedition to create lenses from glacial ice, capturing portraits of the glaciers themselves. Discover the challenges, innovations, and profound insights gained from this unique photographic project.
The Ecology of Society - Complex Adaptive Systems in Nature and Human Societies
Explore ecological and economic systems as complex adaptive systems, examining emergent behaviors, critical transitions, and evolutionary forces shaping resource allocation and cooperation.
Forecasting Natural Disasters in Complex Earth Systems - SFI Lecture
Explore forecasting natural disasters using satellite data, nonlinear dynamics, and numerical simulations. Learn about ensemble forecasting and pattern methods for predicting extreme events.
A Cooperative Species: Why Policies Designed for "Wicked Men" Fail - Part 3
Explore how ethical dispositions and cooperative motivations impact societal challenges, challenging Machiavelli's approach and examining the interplay between policy and human behavior.
Will It Cost the Earth to Save the Planet?
Experts discuss the economic implications of addressing climate change, exploring strategies, costs, and potential returns on investment for mitigating global warming's impacts.
The Decline of Classic Maya Civilization - A Systems Perspective
Explore the systemic factors behind the decline of Southern Maya Lowlands cities around 800 AD, challenging previous collapse theories and examining new archaeological and environmental insights.
The Club of Rome and Limits to Growth - Achieving the Best Possible Future
Explore future challenges and solutions related to climate change and resource depletion. Learn about growth limits, their impacts, and potential regional initiatives for a sustainable future.
Conflict to Sustainable Development: The Complexities of Afghanistan's Future
Diplomat William Frej discusses new approaches to countering insurgency in Afghanistan, exploring how complexity science can guide policy decisions for sustainable development and positive change.
The Ecological Human - Understanding Human Impacts on Ecosystems
Explore how humans impact ecosystems through interactions with other species, and how ecological network science can inform sustainable resource use and consumption.
The Hidden Order of Complex Ecosystems
Explore hidden ecological patterns in food webs, from ancient biodiversity to modern ecosystems. Learn how underlying forces shape nature and strategies to fortify ecosystems against threats.
Better Forecasting Our Ecological Future - Taming Big Data with Big Theory
Explore how big data and theoretical frameworks can improve ecological forecasting and our understanding of complex ecosystems and their future.