2023-Jun-30 • 99 minutes Michael Garfield & David Krakauer on Evolution, Information, and Jurassic Park |
2023-Apr-05 • 82 minutes Mason Porter on Community Detection and Data Topology |
2023-Mar-24 • 67 minutes Andrea Wulf on Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and The Invention of The Self |
2023-Mar-09 • 67 minutes Carlos Gershenson on Balance, Criticality, Antifragility, and The Philosophy of Complex Systems |
2023-Feb-24 • 60 minutes Complex Conceptions of Time with David Krakauer, Ted Chiang, David Wolpert, & James Gleick |
2023-Feb-09 • 73 minutes Paul Smaldino & C. Thi Nguyen on Problems with Value Metrics & Governance at Scale (EPE 06) |
2023-Jan-25 • 81 minutes Dani Bassett & Perry Zurn on The Neuroscience & Philosophy of Curious Minds |
2023-Jan-11 • 68 minutes Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I. |
2022-Dec-22 • 73 minutes Ricard Solé on Liquid and Solid Brains and Terraforming The Biosphere |
2022-Dec-10 • 78 minutes Glen Weyl & Cris Moore on Plurality, Governance, and Decentralized Society (EPE 05) |
2022-Nov-23 • 49 minutes John Krakauer Part 2: Learning, Curiosity, and Consciousness |
2022-Nov-11 • 51 minutes John Krakauer Part 1: Taking Multiple Perspectives on The Brain |
2022-Oct-21 • 66 minutes David Wolpert & Farita Tasnim on The Thermodynamics of Communication |
2022-Oct-01 • 70 minutes Kate Adamala on Synthetic Biology, Origins of Life, and Bioethics |
2022-Sep-21 • 57 minutes Miguel Fuentes & Marco Buongiorno Nardelli on Music, Emergence, and Society |
2022-Sep-02 • 71 minutes Steven Teles & Rajiv Sethi on Jailbreaking The Captured Economy (EPE 04) |
2022-Aug-19 • 83 minutes Caleb Scharf on The Ascent of Information: Life in The Human Dataome |
2022-Aug-03 • 53 minutes Daniel Lieberman on Evolution and Exercise: The Science of Human Endurace |
2022-Jul-18 • 75 minutes Aviv Bergman on The Evolution of Robustness and Integrating The Disciplines |
2022-Jul-02 • 82 minutes Sara Walker on The Physics of Life and Planet-Scale Intelligence |
2022-Jun-18 • 85 minutes Dmitri Tymoczko on The Shape of Music: Mathematical Order in Western Tonality |
2022-Jun-04 • 68 minutes Seth Blumsack on Power Grids: Network Topology & Governance |
2022-May-21 • 81 minutes Ricardo Hausmann & J. Doyne Farmer on Evolving Technologies & Market Ecologies (EPE 03) |
2022-May-06 • 51 minutes Eric Beinhocker & Diane Coyle on Rethinking Economics for A Sustainable & Prosperous World (EPE 02) |
2022-Apr-21 • 53 minutes David Krakauer on Emergent Political Economies and A Science of Possibility (EPE 01) |
2022-Apr-08 • 74 minutes C. Brandon Ogbunu on Epistasis & The Primacy of Context in Complex Systems |
2022-Mar-26 • 54 minutes Mingzhen Lu on The Evolution of Root Systems & Biogeochemical Cycling |
2022-Mar-11 • 57 minutes The Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles with Bryant Walker Smith |
2022-Feb-25 • 74 minutes Elizabeth Hobson on Animal Dominance Hierarchies |
2022-Feb-11 • 54 minutes Hard Sci-Fi Worldbuilding, Robotics, Society, & Purpose with Gary Bengier |
2022-Jan-27 • 46 minutes Multiscale Crisis Response: Melanie Moses & Kathy Powers, Part 2 |
2022-Jan-13 • 46 minutes Fractal Inequality & The Complexity of Repair: Kathy Powers & Melanie Moses, Part 1 |
2021-Dec-22 • 71 minutes Reflections on COVID-19 with David Krakauer & Geoffrey West |
2021-Dec-13 • 58 minutes Tina Eliassi-Rad on Democracies as Complex Systems |
2021-Nov-24 • 81 minutes Simon DeDeo on Good Explanations & Diseases of Epistemology |
2021-Nov-05 • 33 minutes Lauren Klein on Data Feminism (Part 2): Tracing Linguistic Innovation |
2021-Oct-23 • 46 minutes Lauren Klein on Data Feminism (Part 1): Surfacing Invisible Labor |
2021-Oct-07 • 63 minutes W. Brian Arthur (Part 2) on "Prim Dreams of Order vs. Messy Vitality" in Economics, Math, and Physics |
2021-Sep-24 • 52 minutes W. Brian Arthur on Economics in Nouns and Verbs (Part 1) |
2021-Sep-08 • 64 minutes Tyler Marghetis on Breakdowns & Breakthroughs: Critical Transitions in Jazz & Mathematics |
2021-Aug-14 • 66 minutes Katherine Collins on Better Investing Through Biomimicry |
2021-Jul-30 • 54 minutes Deborah Gordon on Ant Colonies as Distributed Computers |
2021-Jul-16 • 66 minutes Reconstructing Ancient Superhighways with Stefani Crabtree and Devin White |
2021-Jul-01 • 46 minutes Mark Ritchie on A New Thermodynamics of Biochemistry, Part 2 |
2021-Jun-17 • 41 minutes Mark Ritchie on A New Thermodynamics of Biochemistry, Part 1 |
2021-Jun-04 • 49 minutes Andrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 2: Humboldt's Dangerous Idea |
2021-May-21 • 51 minutes Andrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 1: Humboldt's Naturegemälde |
2021-May-07 • 58 minutes Sidney Redner on Statistics and Everyday Life |
2021-Apr-23 • 61 minutes Orit Peleg on the Collective Behavior of Honeybees & Fireflies |
2021-Apr-08 • 48 minutes Jonas Dalege on The Physics of Attitudes & Beliefs |
2021-Mar-26 • 64 minutes J. Doyne Farmer on The Complexity Economics Revolution |
2021-Mar-12 • 60 minutes James Evans on Social Computing and Diversity by Design |
2021-Feb-26 • 60 minutes David Stork on AI Art History |
2021-Feb-12 • 50 minutes Alien Crash Site Invades Complexity: Tamara van der Does on Sci-Fi Science, with Guest Co-host Caitlin McShea |
2021-Jan-29 • 72 minutes Mark Moffett on Canopy Biology & The Human Swarm |
2021-Jan-15 • 72 minutes Cris Moore on Algorithmic Justice & The Physics of Inference |
2020-Dec-23 • 59 minutes Science in The Time of COVID: Michael Lachmann & Sam Scarpino on Lessons from The Pandemic |
2020-Dec-11 • 62 minutes Artemy Kolchinsky on "Semantic Information" & The Physics of Meaning |
2020-Nov-26 • 90 minutes Peter Dodds on Text-Based Timeline Analysis & New Instruments for The Science of Stories |
2020-Nov-11 • 55 minutes Scott Ortman on Archaeological Synthesis and Settlement Scaling Theory |
2020-Oct-29 • 62 minutes Helena Miton on Cultural Evolution in Music and Writing Systems |
2020-Oct-14 • 52 minutes David Wolpert on The No Free Lunch Theorems and Why They Undermine The Scientific Method |
2020-Oct-09 • 21 minutes Introducing Alien Crash Site, a new SFI Podcast with host Caitlin McShea |
2020-Sep-30 • 70 minutes Vicky Yang & Henrik Olsson on Political Polling & Polarization: How We Make Decisions & Identities |
2020-Sep-16 • 59 minutes Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West on Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World |
2020-Sep-02 • 57 minutes Natalie Grefenstette on Agnostic Biosignature Detection |
2020-Aug-12 • 67 minutes The Information Theory of Biology & Origins of Life with Sara Imari Walker (Big Biology Podcast Crossover) |
2020-Jul-23 • 63 minutes Fractal Conflicts & Swing Voters with Eddie Lee |
2020-Jul-15 • 66 minutes Fighting Hate Speech with AI & Social Science (with Joshua Garland, Mirta Galesic, and Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi) |
2020-Jul-06 • 59 minutes The Art & Science of Resilience in the Wake of Trauma with Laurence Gonzales |
2020-Jun-25 • 58 minutes Geoffrey West on Scaling, Open-Ended Growth, and Accelerating Crisis/Innovation Cycles: Transcendence or Collapse? (Part 2) |
2020-Jun-17 • 50 minutes Scaling Laws & Social Networks in The Time of COVID-19 with Geoffrey West (Part 1) |
2020-Jun-08 • 40 minutes Better Scientific Modeling for Ecological & Social Justice with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 7) |
2020-Jun-02 • 57 minutes The Future of the Human Climate Niche with Tim Kohler & Marten Scheffer |
2020-May-11 • 47 minutes Exponentials, Economics, and Ecology with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 6) |
2020-May-04 • 45 minutes Embracing Complexity for Systemic Interventions with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 5) |
2020-Apr-27 • 51 minutes Rethinking Our Assumptions During the COVID-19 Crisis with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 4) |
2020-Apr-20 • 44 minutes On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 3) |
2020-Apr-17 • 45 minutes Caroline Buckee on Improving COVID-19 Surveillance & Response |
2020-Apr-13 • 42 minutes COVID-19 & Complex Time in Biology & Economics with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 2) |
2020-Apr-06 • 47 minutes Rigorous Uncertainty: Science During COVID-19 with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 1) |
2020-Apr-01 • 29 minutes Sam Scarpino on Modeling Disease Transmission & Interventions |
2020-Mar-26 • 49 minutes Laurent Hébert-Dufresne on Halting the Spread of COVID-19 |
2020-Mar-19 • 36 minutes Andy Dobson on Epidemic Modeling for COVID-19 |
2020-Mar-12 • 66 minutes Nicole Creanza on Cultural Evolution in Humans & Songbirds |
2020-Mar-05 • 77 minutes Melanie Mitchell on Artificial Intelligence: What We Still Don't Know |
2020-Feb-27 • 53 minutes Albert Kao on Animal Sociality & Collective Computation |
2020-Feb-20 • 56 minutes David B. Kinney on the Philosophy of Science |
2020-Feb-13 • 66 minutes Kirell Benzi on Data Art & The Future of Science Communication |
2020-Feb-06 • 62 minutes Chris Kempes on The Physical Constraints on Life & Evolution |
2020-Jan-30 • 59 minutes Andy Dobson on Disease Ecology & Conservation Strategy |
2020-Jan-23 • 50 minutes R. Maria del-Rio Chanona on Modeling Labor Markets & Tech Unemployment |
2020-Jan-15 • 61 minutes W. Brian Arthur (Part 2) on The Future of The Economy |
2020-Jan-08 • 57 minutes W. Brian Arthur (Part 1) on The History of Complexity Economics |
2019-Dec-18 • 66 minutes Matthew Jackson on Social & Economic Networks |
2019-Dec-11 • 50 minutes Ray Monk on The Lives of Extraordinary Individuals: Wittgenstein, Russell, Oppenheimer |
2019-Dec-04 • 66 minutes Melanie Moses on Metabolic Scaling in Biology & Computation |
2019-Nov-27 • 79 minutes Mirta Galesic on Social Learning & Decision-making |
2019-Nov-20 • 64 minutes Olivia Judson on Major Energy Transitions in Evolutionary History |
2019-Nov-13 • 60 minutes Rajiv Sethi on Stereotypes, Crime, and The Pursuit of Justice |
2019-Nov-06 • 48 minutes Jennifer Dunne on Reconstructing Ancient Food Webs |
2019-Oct-30 • 46 minutes Jennifer Dunne on Food Webs & ArchaeoEcology |
2019-Oct-23 • 50 minutes Luis Bettencourt on The Science of Cities |
2019-Oct-16 • 39 minutes Sabine Hauert on Swarming Across Scales |
2019-Oct-09 • 56 minutes The Origins of Life: David Krakauer, Sarah Maurer, and Chris Kempes at InterPlanetary Festival 2019 |
2019-Oct-09 • 47 minutes David Krakauer on The Landscape of 21st Century Science |