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Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 3: What kind of intelligence is an LLM?
Published: Oct. 23, 2024, 4:59 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 5 seconds
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Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 2: The relationship between language and thought
Published: Oct. 9, 2024, 6:11 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 44 seconds
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Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 1: What is Intelligence
Published: Sept. 25, 2024, 7:43 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 28 seconds
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Trailer for The Nature of Intelligence
Published: Sept. 19, 2024, 10:49 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 25 seconds
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Multiple worlds, containing multitudes
Published: April 10, 2024, 6:42 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 48 seconds
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Physics of Life, Ep 6: Multiple worlds, containing multitudes
Published: April 10, 2024, 6:42 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 48 seconds
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Physics of Life, Ep 5: How human history shapes scientific inquiry
Published: March 27, 2024, 8:54 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 53 seconds
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How human history shapes scientific inquiry
Published: March 27, 2024, 8:54 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 53 seconds
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Physics of Life, Ep 4: The physics of collectives
Published: March 13, 2024, 7:47 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 58 seconds
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Ep 4: The physics of collectives
Published: March 13, 2024, 7:47 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 58 seconds
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Physics of Life, Ep 3: Why is life so diverse?
Published: Feb. 28, 2024, 9:59 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 22 seconds
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Why is life so diverse?
Published: Feb. 28, 2024, 9:59 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 22 seconds
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How do we identify life?
Published: Feb. 14, 2024, 10:07 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 50 seconds
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Physics of Life, Ep 2: How do we identify life?
Published: Feb. 14, 2024, 10:07 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 50 seconds
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What can physics tell us about ourselves?
Published: Jan. 31, 2024, 9:27 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 55 seconds
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Physics of Life, Ep 1: What can physics tell us about ourselves?
Published: Jan. 31, 2024, 9:27 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 55 seconds
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Relaunch of Complexity Podcast Trailer
Published: Jan. 29, 2024, 10:53 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 8 seconds
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Trailer for Physics of Life
Published: Jan. 29, 2024, 10:53 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 8 seconds
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Michael Garfield & David Krakauer on Evolution, Information, and Jurassic Park
Published: June 30, 2023, 5:16 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 24 seconds
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Mason Porter on Community Detection and Data Topology
Published: April 5, 2023, 5:12 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 19 seconds
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Andrea Wulf on Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and The Invention of The Self
Published: March 24, 2023, 4:37 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 49 seconds
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Carlos Gershenson on Balance, Criticality, Antifragility, and The Philosophy of Complex Systems
Published: March 9, 2023, 11:56 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 41 seconds
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Complex Conceptions of Time with David Krakauer, Ted Chiang, David Wolpert, & James Gleick
Published: Feb. 24, 2023, 4:28 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 21 seconds
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Paul Smaldino & C. Thi Nguyen on Problems with Value Metrics & Governance at Scale (EPE 06)
Published: Feb. 9, 2023, 12:39 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 36 seconds
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Dani Bassett & Perry Zurn on The Neuroscience & Philosophy of Curious Minds
Published: Jan. 25, 2023, 8:50 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 46 seconds
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Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I.
Published: Jan. 11, 2023, 9:21 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 19 seconds
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Ricard Sole on Liquid and Solid Brains and Terraforming The Biosphere
Published: Dec. 22, 2022, 4:51 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 9 seconds
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Glen Weyl & Cris Moore on Plurality, Governance, and Decentralized Society (EPE 05)
Published: Dec. 10, 2022, 1:02 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 55 seconds
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John Krakauer Part 2: Learning, Curiosity, and Consciousness
Published: Nov. 23, 2022, 9:24 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 9 seconds
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John Krakauer Part 1: Taking Multiple Perspectives on The Brain
Published: Nov. 11, 2022, 4:20 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 5 seconds
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David Wolpert & Farita Tasnim on The Thermodynamics of Communication
Published: Oct. 21, 2022, 12:10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 29 seconds
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Kate Adamala on Synthetic Biology, Origins of Life, and Bioethics
Published: Oct. 1, 2022, 12:48 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 45 seconds
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Miguel Fuentes & Marco Buongiorno Nardelli on Music, Emergence, and Society
Published: Sept. 21, 2022, 9:32 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 24 seconds
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Steven Teles & Rajiv Sethi on Jailbreaking The Captured Economy (EPE 04)
Published: Sept. 2, 2022, 9:54 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 13 seconds
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Caleb Scharf on The Ascent of Information: Life in The Human Dataome
Published: Aug. 19, 2022, 4:51 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 35 seconds
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Daniel Lieberman on Evolution and Exercise: The Science of Human Endurace
Published: Aug. 3, 2022, 7:05 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 50 seconds
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Aviv Bergman on The Evolution of Robustness and Integrating The Disciplines
Published: July 18, 2022, 9:58 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 58 seconds
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Sara Walker on The Physics of Life and Planet-Scale Intelligence
Published: July 2, 2022, 8:05 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 23 seconds
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Dmitri Tymoczko on The Shape of Music: Mathematical Order in Western Tonality
Published: June 18, 2022, 10:20 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 16 seconds
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Seth Blumsack on Power Grids: Network Topology & Governance
Published: June 4, 2022, 4:49 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 48 seconds
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Ricardo Hausmann & J. Doyne Farmer on Evolving Technologies & Market Ecologies (EPE 03)
Published: May 21, 2022, 4:25 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 49 seconds
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Eric Beinhocker & Diane Coyle on Rethinking Economics for A Sustainable & Prosperous World (EPE 02)
Published: May 6, 2022, 10:07 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 42 seconds
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David Krakauer on Emergent Political Economies and A Science of Possibility (EPE 01)
Published: April 21, 2022, 5:48 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 57 seconds
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C. Brandon Ogbunu on Epistasis & The Primacy of Context in Complex Systems
Published: April 8, 2022, 1:41 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 17 seconds
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Mingzhen Lu on The Evolution of Root Systems & Biogeochemical Cycling
Published: March 26, 2022, 1:06 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 36 seconds
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The Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles with Bryant Walker Smith
Published: March 11, 2022, 6:21 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 1 second
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Elizabeth Hobson on Animal Dominance Hierarchies
Published: Feb. 25, 2022, 2:28 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 37 seconds
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Hard Sci-Fi Worldbuilding, Robotics, Society, & Purpose with Gary Bengier
Published: Feb. 11, 2022, 10:39 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 18 seconds
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Multiscale Crisis Response: Melanie Moses & Kathy Powers, Part 2
Published: Jan. 27, 2022, 5:40 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 7 seconds
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Fractal Inequality & The Complexity of Repair: Kathy Powers & Melanie Moses, Part 1
Published: Jan. 13, 2022, 1:09 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 3 seconds
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Reflections on COVID-19 with David Krakauer & Geoffrey West
Published: Dec. 22, 2021, 2:48 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 52 seconds
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Tina Eliassi-Rad on Democracies as Complex Systems
Published: Dec. 13, 2021, 8:51 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 3 seconds
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Simon DeDeo on Good Explanations & Diseases of Epistemology
Published: Nov. 24, 2021, 8:16 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 3 seconds
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Lauren Klein on Data Feminism (Part 2): Tracing Linguistic Innovation
Published: Nov. 5, 2021, 6:47 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 23 seconds
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Lauren Klein on Data Feminism (Part 1): Surfacing Invisible Labor
Published: Oct. 23, 2021, 1:04 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 10 seconds
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W. Brian Arthur (Part 2) on "Prim Dreams of Order vs. Messy Vitality" in Economics, Math, and Physics
Published: Oct. 7, 2021, 1:16 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 9 seconds
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W. Brian Arthur on Economics in Nouns and Verbs (Part 1)
Published: Sept. 24, 2021, 12:30 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 56 seconds
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Tyler Marghetis on Breakdowns & Breakthroughs: Critical Transitions in Jazz & Mathematics
Published: Sept. 8, 2021, 10:32 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 19 seconds
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Katherine Collins on Better Investing Through Biomimicry
Published: Aug. 14, 2021, 3:11 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 28 seconds
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Deborah Gordon on Ant Colonies as Distributed Computers
Published: July 30, 2021, 12:29 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 15 seconds
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Reconstructing Ancient Superhighways with Stefani Crabtree and Devin White
Published: July 16, 2021, 6:02 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 1 second
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Mark Ritchie on A New Thermodynamics of Biochemistry, Part 1
Published: June 17, 2021, 11:59 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 45 seconds
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Andrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 2: Humboldt's Dangerous Idea
Published: June 4, 2021, 1:52 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 54 seconds
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Andrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 1: Humboldt's Naturegemalde
Published: May 21, 2021, 4:47 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 8 seconds
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Sidney Redner on Statistics and Everyday Life
Published: May 7, 2021, 9:02 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 59 seconds
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Orit Peleg on the Collective Behavior of Honeybees & Fireflies
Published: April 23, 2021, 6:27 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 58 seconds
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Jonas Dalege on The Physics of Attitudes & Beliefs
Published: April 8, 2021, 11:06 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 40 seconds
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J. Doyne Farmer on The Complexity Economics Revolution
Published: March 26, 2021, 8:58 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes
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James Evans on Social Computing and Diversity by Design
Published: March 12, 2021, 3:40 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 seconds
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David Stork on AI Art History
Published: Feb. 26, 2021, 4:09 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 seconds
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Alien Crash Site Invades Complexity: Tamara van der Does on Sci-Fi Science, with Guest Co-host Caitlin McShea
Published: Feb. 12, 2021, 3:54 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 8 seconds
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Mark Moffett on Canopy Biology & The Human Swarm
Published: Jan. 29, 2021, 5:33 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 5 seconds
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Cris Moore on Algorithmic Justice & The Physics of Inference
Published: Jan. 15, 2021, 1:48 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 40 seconds
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Science in The Time of COVID: Michael Lachmann & Sam Scarpino on Lessons from The Pandemic
Published: Dec. 23, 2020, 7:40 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 14 seconds
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Artemy Kolchinsky on "Semantic Information" & The Physics of Meaning
Published: Dec. 11, 2020, 9:25 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 51 seconds
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Peter Dodds on Text-Based Timeline Analysis & New Instruments for The Science of Stories
Published: Nov. 26, 2020, 8:58 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 23 seconds
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Scott Ortman on Archaeological Synthesis and Settlement Scaling Theory
Published: Nov. 11, 2020, 11:09 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 54 seconds
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Helena Miton on Cultural Evolution in Music and Writing Systems
Published: Oct. 29, 2020, 10:56 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 44 seconds
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David Wolpert on The No Free Lunch Theorems and Why They Undermine The Scientific Method
Published: Oct. 14, 2020, 11:51 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 13 seconds
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Introducing Alien Crash Site, a new SFI Podcast with host Caitlin McShea
Published: Oct. 9, 2020, 3:40 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 32 seconds
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Vicky Yang & Henrik Olsson on Political Polling & Polarization: How We Make Decisions & Identities
Published: Sept. 30, 2020, 8:46 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 9 seconds
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Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West on Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
Published: Sept. 16, 2020, 10:03 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 44 seconds
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Natalie Grefenstette on Agnostic Biosignature Detection
Published: Sept. 2, 2020, 6:11 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 52 seconds
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The Information Theory of Biology & Origins of Life with Sara Imari Walker (Big Biology Podcast Crossover)
Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 8:28 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 51 seconds
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Fractal Conflicts & Swing Voters with Eddie Lee
Published: July 23, 2020, 10:25 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 35 seconds
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Fighting Hate Speech with AI & Social Science (with Joshua Garland, Mirta Galesic, and Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi)
Published: July 15, 2020, 8:03 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 48 seconds
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The Art & Science of Resilience in the Wake of Trauma with Laurence Gonzales
Published: July 6, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 23 seconds
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Geoffrey West on Scaling, Open-Ended Growth, and Accelerating Crisis/Innovation Cycles: Transcendence or Collapse? (Part 2)
Published: June 25, 2020, 12:27 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 18 seconds
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Scaling Laws & Social Networks in The Time of COVID-19 with Geoffrey West (Part 1)
Published: June 17, 2020, 11:34 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 30 seconds
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Better Scientific Modeling for Ecological & Social Justice with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 7)
Published: June 8, 2020, 8:59 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 3 seconds
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The Future of the Human Climate Niche with Tim Kohler & Marten Scheffer
Published: June 2, 2020, 8:53 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 35 seconds
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Exponentials, Economics, and Ecology with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 6)
Published: May 11, 2020, 7:30 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 28 seconds
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Embracing Complexity for Systemic Interventions with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 5)
Published: May 4, 2020, 11:10 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 55 seconds
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Rethinking Our Assumptions During the COVID-19 Crisis with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 4)
Published: April 27, 2020, 9:44 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 13 seconds
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On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 3)
Published: April 20, 2020, 6:30 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 11 seconds
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Caroline Buckee on Improving COVID-19 Surveillance & Response
Published: April 17, 2020, 2:56 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 5 seconds
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COVID-19 & Complex Time in Biology & Economics with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 2)
Published: April 13, 2020, 8:57 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 21 seconds
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Rigorous Uncertainty: Science During COVID-19 with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 1)
Published: April 6, 2020, 11:33 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 4 seconds
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Sam Scarpino on Modeling Disease Transmission & Interventions
Published: April 1, 2020, 11:55 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 32 seconds
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Laurent Hebert-Dufresne on Halting the Spread of COVID-19
Published: March 26, 2020, 3:22 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 14 seconds
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Andy Dobson on Epidemic Modeling for COVID-19
Published: March 19, 2020, 2:40 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 14 seconds
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Nicole Creanza on Cultural Evolution in Humans & Songbirds
Published: March 12, 2020, 3:18 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 19 seconds
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Melanie Mitchell on Artificial Intelligence: What We Still Don't Know
Published: March 5, 2020, 4:38 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 16 seconds
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Albert Kao on Animal Sociality & Collective Computation
Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 3:39 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 38 seconds
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David B. Kinney on the Philosophy of Science
Published: Feb. 20, 2020, 5:17 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 43 seconds
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Kirell Benzi on Data Art & The Future of Science Communication
Published: Feb. 13, 2020, 2:17 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 6 seconds
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Chris Kempes on The Physical Constraints on Life & Evolution
Published: Feb. 6, 2020, 12:32 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 22 seconds
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Andy Dobson on Disease Ecology & Conservation Strategy
Published: Jan. 30, 2020, 2:40 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 12 seconds
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R. Maria del-Rio Chanona on Modeling Labor Markets & Tech Unemployment
Published: Jan. 23, 2020, 2:04 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 6 seconds
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W. Brian Arthur (Part 2) on The Future of The Economy
Published: Jan. 15, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 49 seconds
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W. Brian Arthur (Part 1) on The History of Complexity Economics
Published: Jan. 8, 2020, 10:03 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 3 seconds
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Matthew Jackson on Social & Economic Networks
Published: Dec. 18, 2019, 10:15 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 47 seconds
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Ray Monk on The Lives of Extraordinary Individuals: Wittgenstein, Russell, Oppenheimer
Published: Dec. 11, 2019, 10:04 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 13 seconds
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Melanie Moses on Metabolic Scaling in Biology & Computation
Published: Dec. 4, 2019, 6:34 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 12 seconds
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Mirta Galesic on Social Learning & Decision-making
Published: Nov. 27, 2019, 6:26 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 23 seconds
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Olivia Judson on Major Energy Transitions in Evolutionary History
Published: Nov. 20, 2019, 6:01 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 17 seconds
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Rajiv Sethi on Stereotypes, Crime, and The Pursuit of Justice
Published: Nov. 13, 2019, 3 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 39 seconds
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Jennifer Dunne on Reconstructing Ancient Food Webs
Published: Nov. 6, 2019, 3 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 5 seconds
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Jennifer Dunne on Food Webs & ArchaeoEcology
Published: Oct. 30, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 24 seconds
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Luis Bettencourt on The Science of Cities
Published: Oct. 23, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 17 seconds
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Sabine Hauert on Swarming Across Scales
Published: Oct. 16, 2019, 3 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 23 seconds
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The Origins of Life: David Krakauer, Sarah Maurer, and Chris Kempes at InterPlanetary Festival 2019
Published: Oct. 9, 2019, 9:48 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 37 seconds
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David Krakauer on The Landscape of 21st Century Science
Published: Oct. 9, 2019, 5:36 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 32 seconds
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