COMPLEXITY: Physics of Life
Are there universal laws of life and can we find them? Is there a physics of society, of ecology, of evolution? Join us for six episodes of thought-provoking insights on the physics of life and its profound implications on our understanding of the universe. In this season of the Santa Fe Institute’s Complexity podcast’s relaunch, we talk to researchers who have been exploring these questions and more through the lens of complexity science. Subscribe now and be part of the exploration!Podcasts
Multiple worlds, containing multitudes
Published: April 10, 2024, 6:42 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 48 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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Ep 4: The physics of collectives
Published: March 13, 2024, 7:47 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 58 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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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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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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