Episodes (Page 13)
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September 2021 AMA episode with questions from Patreon supporters.
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Herbert Gintis on game theory, evolution, and social rationality.
Social Rationality
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Nigel Goldenfeld on phase transitions, criticality, and complex systems in biology.
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Humans resist subtractive change, preferring to add elements to solve problems.
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Modern economies are complex systems, defying simple quantitative analysis.
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Confucianism and Daoism emerged alongside Western philosophy.
Edward Slingerland on Confucianism
Wu Wei
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August 2021 AMA episode funded by Patreon supporters.
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Psychoanalysis offers insights beyond neuroscience for emotions and meaning.
Mari Ruti on Lack
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The arrow of time connects everyday phenomena to physics.
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Humans are exploring synthetic biology to design organisms.
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Data can inherit bias from collection and analysis processes.
Catherine D'Ignazio on Data
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Stephen Wolfram explores fundamental physics using hypergraphs.
Fundamental Physics
Stephen Wolfram on Computation
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July 2021 AMA episode features Patreon supporter questions.
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Reza Aslan discusses religion as a human-constructed vocabulary.
Reza Aslan on Religion
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John Preskill explains quantum computers and their construction.
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Charis Kubrin examines criminology and mass incarceration in the US.
Charis Kubrin on Criminology
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Jordan Ellenberg applies math to understanding political boundaries.
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Patreon supporters ask host questions on diverse topics.
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Simon DeDeo explores how humans create and evaluate explanations.
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Lee Smolin reflects on building new physics theories.
Lee Smolin on Time