Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ AI and intelligence • cognitive science • machine learning • philosophical questions • evolution • physics of life • scientific inquiry • complex systems • economics • governance • ethics
"Complexity" is a podcast by the Santa Fe Institute that delves into a broad range of subjects centered around the theme of complexity across different domains. This show offers explorations into diverse topics such as artificial intelligence, the evolution and nature of intelligence, and the intersection of physics with life and societal systems. It engages with profound questions about intelligence, particularly the capability and understanding of artificial entities like large language models (LLMs), contrasting them to human intellect and development. The podcast also investigates the intricate relationship between language and thought, plus the implications of machine intelligence on future technological developments.
The series includes detailed discussions on the origin and diversity of life through the lens of physics, considering how both life on Earth and hypothetical extraterrestrial life can be studied using principles like assembly theory. It analyzes the dynamics within collectives, from human societies to biological systems, and examines how history shapes scientific inquiry.
Episodes often feature conversations with experts from various fields, touching upon topics such as the ethics of technology, economic systems, governance, and the philosophy of complex systems. The podcast frequently explores the confluence of concepts from physics, biology, and social sciences to offer insights into emergent phenomena, questioning established paradigms and suggesting new frameworks for understanding complexity in both natural and human-made systems. With this show, listeners are invited to participate in an intellectual exploration of how complexity manifests in different aspects of the universe and our understanding of it.
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Episodes:
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Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 6: AI’s changing seasons
2024-Dec-04
44 minutes
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Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 5: How do we assess intelligence?
2024-Nov-20
48 minutes
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Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 4: Babies vs Machines
2024-Nov-06
38 minutes
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Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 3: What kind of intelligence is an LLM?
2024-Oct-23
45 minutes
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Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 2: The relationship between language and thought
2024-Oct-09
37 minutes
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Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 1: What is Intelligence
2024-Sep-25
43 minutes
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Trailer for The Nature of Intelligence
2024-Sep-19
3 minutes
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Physics of Life, Ep 6: Multiple worlds, containing multitudes
2024-Apr-10
40 minutes
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Physics of Life, Ep 5: How human history shapes scientific inquiry
2024-Mar-27
33 minutes
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Physics of Life, Ep 4: The physics of collectives
2024-Mar-13
33 minutes
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Physics of Life, Ep 3: Why is life so diverse?
2024-Feb-28
29 minutes
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Physics of Life, Ep 2: How do we identify life?
2024-Feb-14
33 minutes
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Physics of Life, Ep 1: What can physics tell us about ourselves?
2024-Jan-31
34 minutes
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Trailer for Physics of Life
2024-Jan-29
3 minutes
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Michael Garfield & David Krakauer on Evolution, Information, and Jurassic Park
2023-Jun-30
99 minutes
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Mason Porter on Community Detection and Data Topology
2023-Apr-05
82 minutes
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Andrea Wulf on Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and The Invention of The Self
2023-Mar-24
66 minutes
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Carlos Gershenson on Balance, Criticality, Antifragility, and The Philosophy of Complex Systems
2023-Mar-09
66 minutes
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Complex Conceptions of Time with David Krakauer, Ted Chiang, David Wolpert, & James Gleick
2023-Feb-24
60 minutes
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Paul Smaldino & C. Thi Nguyen on Problems with Value Metrics & Governance at Scale (EPE 06)
2023-Feb-09
72 minutes
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Dani Bassett & Perry Zurn on The Neuroscience & Philosophy of Curious Minds
2023-Jan-25
80 minutes
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Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I.
2023-Jan-11
68 minutes
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Ricard Solé on Liquid and Solid Brains and Terraforming The Biosphere
2022-Dec-22
73 minutes
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Glen Weyl & Cris Moore on Plurality, Governance, and Decentralized Society (EPE 05)
2022-Dec-10
77 minutes
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John Krakauer Part 2: Learning, Curiosity, and Consciousness
2022-Nov-23
49 minutes
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John Krakauer Part 1: Taking Multiple Perspectives on The Brain
2022-Nov-11
51 minutes
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David Wolpert & Farita Tasnim on The Thermodynamics of Communication
2022-Oct-21
66 minutes
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Kate Adamala on Synthetic Biology, Origins of Life, and Bioethics
2022-Oct-01
69 minutes
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Miguel Fuentes & Marco Buongiorno Nardelli on Music, Emergence, and Society
2022-Sep-21
57 minutes
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Steven Teles & Rajiv Sethi on Jailbreaking The Captured Economy (EPE 04)
2022-Sep-02
71 minutes
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Caleb Scharf on The Ascent of Information: Life in The Human Dataome
2022-Aug-19
82 minutes
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Daniel Lieberman on Evolution and Exercise: The Science of Human Endurace
2022-Aug-03
52 minutes
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Aviv Bergman on The Evolution of Robustness and Integrating The Disciplines
2022-Jul-18
74 minutes
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Sara Walker on The Physics of Life and Planet-Scale Intelligence
2022-Jul-02
82 minutes
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Dmitri Tymoczko on The Shape of Music: Mathematical Order in Western Tonality
2022-Jun-18
85 minutes
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Seth Blumsack on Power Grids: Network Topology & Governance
2022-Jun-04
67 minutes
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Ricardo Hausmann & J. Doyne Farmer on Evolving Technologies & Market Ecologies (EPE 03)
2022-May-21
80 minutes
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Eric Beinhocker & Diane Coyle on Rethinking Economics for A Sustainable & Prosperous World (EPE 02)
2022-May-06
50 minutes
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David Krakauer on Emergent Political Economies and A Science of Possibility (EPE 01)
2022-Apr-21
52 minutes
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C. Brandon Ogbunu on Epistasis & The Primacy of Context in Complex Systems
2022-Apr-08
74 minutes
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Mingzhen Lu on The Evolution of Root Systems & Biogeochemical Cycling
2022-Mar-26
53 minutes
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The Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles with Bryant Walker Smith
2022-Mar-11
57 minutes
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Elizabeth Hobson on Animal Dominance Hierarchies
2022-Feb-25
73 minutes
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Hard Sci-Fi Worldbuilding, Robotics, Society, & Purpose with Gary Bengier
2022-Feb-11
54 minutes
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Multiscale Crisis Response: Melanie Moses & Kathy Powers, Part 2
2022-Jan-27
46 minutes
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Fractal Inequality & The Complexity of Repair: Kathy Powers & Melanie Moses, Part 1
2022-Jan-13
46 minutes
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Reflections on COVID-19 with David Krakauer & Geoffrey West
2021-Dec-22
70 minutes
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Tina Eliassi-Rad on Democracies as Complex Systems
2021-Dec-13
58 minutes
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Simon DeDeo on Good Explanations & Diseases of Epistemology
2021-Nov-24
81 minutes
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Lauren Klein on Data Feminism (Part 2): Tracing Linguistic Innovation
2021-Nov-05
33 minutes
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Lauren Klein on Data Feminism (Part 1): Surfacing Invisible Labor
2021-Oct-23
46 minutes
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W. Brian Arthur (Part 2) on "Prim Dreams of Order vs. Messy Vitality" in Economics, Math, and Physics
2021-Oct-07
63 minutes
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W. Brian Arthur on Economics in Nouns and Verbs (Part 1)
2021-Sep-24
51 minutes
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Tyler Marghetis on Breakdowns & Breakthroughs: Critical Transitions in Jazz & Mathematics
2021-Sep-08
64 minutes
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Katherine Collins on Better Investing Through Biomimicry
2021-Aug-14
66 minutes
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Deborah Gordon on Ant Colonies as Distributed Computers
2021-Jul-30
54 minutes
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Reconstructing Ancient Superhighways with Stefani Crabtree and Devin White
2021-Jul-16
66 minutes
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Mark Ritchie on A New Thermodynamics of Biochemistry, Part 2
2021-Jul-01
45 minutes
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Mark Ritchie on A New Thermodynamics of Biochemistry, Part 1
2021-Jun-17
40 minutes
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Andrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 2: Humboldt's Dangerous Idea
2021-Jun-04
48 minutes
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Andrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 1: Humboldt's Naturegemälde
2021-May-21
51 minutes
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Sidney Redner on Statistics and Everyday Life
2021-May-07
57 minutes
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Orit Peleg on the Collective Behavior of Honeybees & Fireflies
2021-Apr-23
60 minutes
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Jonas Dalege on The Physics of Attitudes & Beliefs
2021-Apr-08
47 minutes
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J. Doyne Farmer on The Complexity Economics Revolution
2021-Mar-26
64 minutes
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James Evans on Social Computing and Diversity by Design
2021-Mar-12
60 minutes
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David Stork on AI Art History
2021-Feb-26
60 minutes
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Alien Crash Site Invades Complexity: Tamara van der Does on Sci-Fi Science, with Guest Co-host Caitlin McShea
2021-Feb-12
50 minutes
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Mark Moffett on Canopy Biology & The Human Swarm
2021-Jan-29
72 minutes
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Cris Moore on Algorithmic Justice & The Physics of Inference
2021-Jan-15
71 minutes
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Science in The Time of COVID: Michael Lachmann & Sam Scarpino on Lessons from The Pandemic
2020-Dec-23
59 minutes
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Artemy Kolchinsky on "Semantic Information" & The Physics of Meaning
2020-Dec-11
61 minutes
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Peter Dodds on Text-Based Timeline Analysis & New Instruments for The Science of Stories
2020-Nov-26
90 minutes
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Scott Ortman on Archaeological Synthesis and Settlement Scaling Theory
2020-Nov-11
54 minutes
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Helena Miton on Cultural Evolution in Music and Writing Systems
2020-Oct-29
61 minutes
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David Wolpert on The No Free Lunch Theorems and Why They Undermine The Scientific Method
2020-Oct-14
52 minutes
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Vicky Yang & Henrik Olsson on Political Polling & Polarization: How We Make Decisions & Identities
2020-Sep-30
70 minutes
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Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West on Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
2020-Sep-16
58 minutes
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Natalie Grefenstette on Agnostic Biosignature Detection
2020-Sep-02
56 minutes
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The Information Theory of Biology & Origins of Life with Sara Imari Walker (Big Biology Podcast Crossover)
2020-Aug-12
66 minutes
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Fractal Conflicts & Swing Voters with Eddie Lee
2020-Jul-23
62 minutes
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Fighting Hate Speech with AI & Social Science (with Joshua Garland, Mirta Galesic, and Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi)
2020-Jul-15
65 minutes
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The Art & Science of Resilience in the Wake of Trauma with Laurence Gonzales
2020-Jul-06
59 minutes
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Geoffrey West on Scaling, Open-Ended Growth, and Accelerating Crisis/Innovation Cycles: Transcendence or Collapse? (Part 2)
2020-Jun-25
58 minutes
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Scaling Laws & Social Networks in The Time of COVID-19 with Geoffrey West (Part 1)
2020-Jun-17
49 minutes
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Better Scientific Modeling for Ecological & Social Justice with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 7)
2020-Jun-08
40 minutes
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The Future of the Human Climate Niche with Tim Kohler & Marten Scheffer
2020-Jun-02
56 minutes
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Exponentials, Economics, and Ecology with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 6)
2020-May-11
47 minutes
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Embracing Complexity for Systemic Interventions with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 5)
2020-May-04
44 minutes
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Rethinking Our Assumptions During the COVID-19 Crisis with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 4)
2020-Apr-27
51 minutes
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On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 3)
2020-Apr-20
44 minutes
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Caroline Buckee on Improving COVID-19 Surveillance & Response
2020-Apr-17
45 minutes
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COVID-19 & Complex Time in Biology & Economics with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 2)
2020-Apr-13
42 minutes
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Rigorous Uncertainty: Science During COVID-19 with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 1)
2020-Apr-06
47 minutes
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Sam Scarpino on Modeling Disease Transmission & Interventions
2020-Apr-01
28 minutes
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Laurent Hébert-Dufresne on Halting the Spread of COVID-19
2020-Mar-26
49 minutes
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Andy Dobson on Epidemic Modeling for COVID-19
2020-Mar-19
36 minutes
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Nicole Creanza on Cultural Evolution in Humans & Songbirds
2020-Mar-12
66 minutes
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Melanie Mitchell on Artificial Intelligence: What We Still Don't Know
2020-Mar-05
77 minutes
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Albert Kao on Animal Sociality & Collective Computation
2020-Feb-27
52 minutes
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David B. Kinney on the Philosophy of Science
2020-Feb-20
55 minutes
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Kirell Benzi on Data Art & The Future of Science Communication
2020-Feb-13
66 minutes
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Chris Kempes on The Physical Constraints on Life & Evolution
2020-Feb-06
62 minutes
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Andy Dobson on Disease Ecology & Conservation Strategy
2020-Jan-30
59 minutes
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R. Maria del-Rio Chanona on Modeling Labor Markets & Tech Unemployment
2020-Jan-23
50 minutes
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W. Brian Arthur (Part 2) on The Future of The Economy
2020-Jan-15
60 minutes
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W. Brian Arthur (Part 1) on The History of Complexity Economics
2020-Jan-08
57 minutes
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Matthew Jackson on Social & Economic Networks
2019-Dec-18
65 minutes
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Ray Monk on The Lives of Extraordinary Individuals: Wittgenstein, Russell, Oppenheimer
2019-Dec-11
50 minutes
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Melanie Moses on Metabolic Scaling in Biology & Computation
2019-Dec-04
66 minutes
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Mirta Galesic on Social Learning & Decision-making
2019-Nov-27
79 minutes
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Olivia Judson on Major Energy Transitions in Evolutionary History
2019-Nov-20
64 minutes
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Rajiv Sethi on Stereotypes, Crime, and The Pursuit of Justice
2019-Nov-13
59 minutes
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Jennifer Dunne on Reconstructing Ancient Food Webs
2019-Nov-06
48 minutes
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Jennifer Dunne on Food Webs & ArchaeoEcology
2019-Oct-30
46 minutes
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Luis Bettencourt on The Science of Cities
2019-Oct-23
50 minutes
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Sabine Hauert on Swarming Across Scales
2019-Oct-16
39 minutes
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The Origins of Life: David Krakauer, Sarah Maurer, and Chris Kempes at InterPlanetary Festival 2019
2019-Oct-09
55 minutes
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David Krakauer on The Landscape of 21st Century Science
2019-Oct-09
46 minutes
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