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The DemystifySci PodcastOrigins of Evolution Itself - Dr. Michael Lachmann, SFI, DSPod #296Today we're digging into the deep and often overlooked connections between neodarwinian evolution, life’s origins, and the evolution of non-living systems. We're guided by Dr. Michael Lachmann of the Santa Fe Institute, who investigates how life may have begun as a more generalized cosmic selection process, with planetary conditions shaping its emergence and survival. Through discussions of thermodynamics, functional information, and entropy, we examine whether life might be present in forms beyond Earth’s biology - and how'd know what to look for. In the end, this discussion swirls around what it means to be “alive” and how we can n...2024-11-032h 27
Performance Around The ClockAnnie Curtis - circadian immunology. Performance Around The Clock episode 24.Welcome to episode 24 of the Performance Around The Clock podcast. We resume our series from the Society for Research on Biology Rhythms (SRBR) biennial meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Annie Curtis, a professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), who studies the intersection between circadian rhythms and the immune system. We talk about how the timing of infection affects the immune response and the implications for vaccinations. In addition, we hear about the intriguing role of mitochondria in this immune response. Thanks for listening.2024-10-2247 min
Keys: A Troubled InheritanceS1E5 THE QUEEN AND THE CLAIMANTMike Joseph’s mother petitions the Queen for help to recover her Nazi-plundered house from a resistant Germany. The Queen’s response unlocks a wave of British government action, which escalates towards an international crisis. In this episode, a very personal family story becomes a highly political dispute.
In this epic journey, Mike sets out to uncover his Holocaust inheritance, but is led relentlessly to discovering his Nakba inheritance. It turns out that the two different catastrophes are more connected than he thought possible. In 2023, can both stories be heard and understood?
With...2023-10-0432 minKeys: A Troubled InheritanceS1E4 NAZI JOURNALIST DEFIES JEWISH JOURNALISTWhat do you say to an old Nazi? With this question, Mike Joseph’s daughter Asha opens an episode in which we hear what Mike does say when suddenly, in 1991 he encounters the Nazi who stole his mother’s house fifty years earlier.
The old Nazi shouts him down. Then Mike finds that he is not the only voice in newly-reunited Germany refusing to return property stolen by the Nazis.
In this epic journey, Mike sets out to uncover his Holocaust inheritance, but is led relentlessly to discovering his Nakba inheritance. It turns out that the t...2023-09-2736 min
The FinReg PodFixing Carbon Accounting with Emissions Liability Management Alicia Seiger is a lecturer at Stanford Law and the managing director of Stanford’s Sustainable Finance Initiative. And Marc Roston is the founder of investment advisory firm MNR Capital and a senior research scholar at Stanford University’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance. In this episode, Alicia and Marc offer their perspective on the problems with the current method of corporate carbon counting, known as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. They also break down a new carbon accounting methodology they’ve developed called Emissions Liability Management, or ELM. Leave questions and comments at lee.reiners@duke.edu2023-08-211h 13
COMPLEXITYMichael Garfield & David Krakauer on Evolution, Information, and Jurassic ParkEpisode Title and Show Notes:106 - Michael Garfield & David Krakauer on Evolution, Information, and Jurassic ParkWelcome to Complexity, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I'm Michael Garfield, producer of this show and host for the last 105 episodes. Since October, 2019, we have brought you with us for far ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe. Today I step down and depart from SFI with one final appearance as the guest of this episode. Our guest host is SFI President David...2023-06-301h 39
COMPLEXITYMason Porter on Community Detection and Data TopologyOne way of looking at the world reveals it as an interference pattern of dynamic, ever-changing links — relationships that grow and break in nested groups of multilayer networks. Identity can be defined by informational exchange between one cluster of relationships and any other. A kind of music starts to make itself apparent in the avalanche of data and new analytical approaches that a century of innovation has availed us. But just as with new music genres, it requires a trained ear to attune to unfamiliar order…what can we learn from network science and related general, abstract mathematical approaches to di...2023-04-051h 22
COMPLEXITYAndrea Wulf on Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and The Invention of The SelfFor centuries, Medieval life in Europe meant a world determined and prescribed by church and royalty. The social sphere was very much a pyramid, and everybody had to answer to and fit within the schemes of those on top. And then, on wings of reason, Modern selves emerged to scrutinize these systems and at great cost swap them for others that more evenly distribute power and authority. Cosmic forces preordained one’s role within a transcendental order…but then, across quick decades of upheaval, philosophy and politics started celebrating self-determination and free will. Art and science blossomed as they wove...2023-03-241h 06
COMPLEXITYCarlos Gershenson on Balance, Criticality, Antifragility, and The Philosophy of Complex SystemsHow do we get a handle on complex systems thinking? What are the implications of this science for philosophy, and where does philosophical tradition foreshadow findings from the scientific frontier?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.In this episode we speak with Carlos Gershenson (UNAM website, Google Scholar, Wikipedia, Twitter), SFI Sabbatical Visitor and pro...2023-03-101h 06
COMPLEXITYComplex Conceptions of Time with David Krakauer, Ted Chiang, David Wolpert, & James GleickAnd now for something completely different! Last October, The Santa Fe Institute held its third InterPlanetary Festival at SITE Santa Fe, celebrating the immensely long time horizon, deep scientific and philosophical questions, psychological challenges, and engineering problems involved in humankind’s Great Work to extend its understanding and presence into outer space. For our third edition, we turned our attention to visionary projects living generations will likely not live to see completed — interstellar travel, off-world cities, radical new ways of understanding spacetime — as an invitation to engage in science as not merely interesting but deeply fun. For our first panel, we...2023-02-241h 00
COMPLEXITYPaul Smaldino & C. Thi Nguyen on Problems with Value Metrics & Governance at Scale (EPE 06)There are maps, and there are territories, and humans frequently confuse the two. No matter how insistently this point has been made by cognitive neuroscience, epistemology, economics, and a score of other disciplines, one common human error is to act as if we know what we should measure, and that what we measure is what matters. But what we value doesn’t even always have a metric. And even reasonable proxies can distort our understanding of and behavior in the world we want to navigate. Even carefully collected biometric data can occlude the other factors that determine health, or ca...2023-02-091h 12
COMPLEXITYRicard Solé on Liquid and Solid Brains and Terraforming The BiosphereWhat does it mean to think? What are the traits of thinking systems that we could use to identify them? Different environmental variables call for different strategies in individual and collective cognition — what defines the threshold at which so-called “solid” brains transition into “liquids”? And how might we apply these and related lessons from ecology and evolution to help steward a diverse and thriving future with technology, and keep the biosphere afloat?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-r...2022-12-221h 13
COMPLEXITYGlen Weyl & Cris Moore on Plurality, Governance, and Decentralized Society (EPE 05)In his foundational 1972 paper “More Is Different,” physicist Phil Anderson made the case that reducing the objects of scientific study to their smallest components does not allow researchers to predict the behaviors of those systems upon reconstruction. Another way of putting this is that different disciplines reveal different truths at different scales. Contrary to long-held convictions that there would one day be one great unifying theory to explain it all, fundamental research in this century looks more like a bouquet of complementary approaches. This pluralistic thinking hearkens back to the work of 19th century psychologist William James and looks forw...2022-12-101h 17
COMPLEXITYMiguel Fuentes & Marco Buongiorno Nardelli on Music, Emergence, and SocietyOne way to frame the science of complexity is as a revelation of the hidden order under seemingly separate phenomena — a teasing-out of music from the noise of history and nature. This effort follows centuries of work to find the rules that structure language, music, and society. How strictly analogous are the patterns governing a symphony and those that describe a social transformation? Math and music are old friends, but new statistical and computational techniques afford the possibility of going even deeper. What fundamental insights — and what sounds — emerge by bringing physicists, composers, social scientists, data artists, and biologists together...2022-09-2157 min
COMPLEXITYSteven Teles & Rajiv Sethi on Jailbreaking The Captured Economy (EPE 04)As the old nut goes, “To the victor goes the spoils.” But if each round of play consolidates the spoils into fewer hands, eventually it comes to pass that wealthy special interests twist the rules so much it undermines the game itself. When economic power overtakes the processes of democratic governance, growth stagnates, and the rift between the rich and poor becomes abyssal. Desperate times and desperate measures jeopardize the fabric of society. How might nonpartisan approaches to this wicked problem help us walk the system back into a healthy balance?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of th...2022-09-021h 11
COMPLEXITYDaniel Lieberman on Evolution and Exercise: The Science of Human EnduraceHuman beings are distinctly weird. We live for a very long time after we stop reproducing, move completely differently than all of our closest relatives, lack the power of chimpanzees and other primates but completely outdo most other terrestrial mammals in a contest of endurance. If we think about bodies as hypotheses about the stable features of their ancestral environments, what do the features of our unusual physiology say about what humans ARE, where we come from, the details of our origin story as a profoundly successful species? And what can we learn by telescoping that story forward to...2022-08-0352 min
COMPLEXITYSara Walker on The Physics of Life and Planet-Scale IntelligenceWhat is life, and where does it come from? These are two of the deepest, most vexing, and persistent questions in science, and their enduring mystery and allure is complicated by the fact that scientists approach them from a myriad of different angles, hard to reconcile. Whatever else one might identify as universal features of all living systems, most scholars would agree life is a physical phenomenon unfolding in time. And yet current physics is notorious for its inadequacy with respect to time. Life appears to hinge on information transfer — but, again, what do we mean by “information,” and what i...2022-07-021h 22
Jüdische Geschichte Kompakt#28 Jüdische Geschichte Kompakt – Shoah Foundation - Zeitzeugeninterviews im WandelWie Film und Virtual Reality Zeitzeugen-Interviews verändern
Herzlich Willkommen zur zweiten Folge der 6. Staffel "Wissen um die Shoah",
in der Björn Siegel (IGdJ/Hamburg) im Gespräch mit Prof. Dr. Wolf Gruner (University of Southern California Los Angeles/USA) Einblicke in die Geschichte der Shoah Foundation geben und hierbei die besondere Rolle des Mediums Film sowie die Herausforderungen der Virtual Reality diskutieren.
Wolf Gruner ist ein Experte in der Shoah Erforschung und Vermittlung und hat lange Zeit mit der Shoah Foundation unterschiedliche Vermittlungsformate ausgestaltet und die Erforschung der Shoah – insbesondere durch die Nutzung der Z...2022-07-0137 min
COMPLEXITYSeth Blumsack on Power Grids: Network Topology & GovernanceWe lead our lives largely unaware of the immense effort required to support them. All of us grew up inside the so-called “Grid” — actually one of many interconnected regional power grids that electrify our modern world. The physical infrastructure and the regulatory intricacies required to keep the lights on: both have grown organically, piecemeal, in complex networks that nobody seems to fully understand. And yet, we must. Compared to life 150 years ago, we are all utterly dependent on the power grid, and learning how it operates — how tiny failures cause cascading crises, and how tense webs of collaborators make decisions...2022-06-041h 07
COMPLEXITYRicardo Hausmann & J. Doyne Farmer on Evolving Technologies & Market Ecologies (EPE 03)As our world knits together, economic interdependencies change in both shape and nature. Supply chains, finance, labor, technological innovation, and geography interact in puzzling nonlinear ways. Can we step back far enough and see clearly enough to make sense of these interactions? Can we map the landscape of capability across scales? And what insights emerge by layering networks of people, firms, states, markets, regions? We’re all riding a bucking horse; what questions can we ask to make sure that we can stay in the saddle?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m...2022-05-211h 20
COMPLEXITYDavid Krakauer on Emergent Political Economies and A Science of Possibility (EPE 01)The world is unfair — but how much of that unfairness is inevitable, and how much is just contingency? After centuries of efforts to arrive at formal theories of history, society, and economics, most of us still believe and act on what amounts to myth. Our predecessors can’t be faulted for their lack of data, but in 2022 we have superior resources we’re only starting to appreciate and use. In honor of the Santa Fe Institute’s new role as the hub of an international research network exploring Emergent Political Economies, we dedicate this new sub-series of Complexity Podcast to conve...2022-04-2152 min
The 'Yiddish Voice' PodcastPinchas Gutter, Holocaust Survivor, and Last Days of Pesach
Happy Passover! אַ זיסן און כּשרן פּסח און אַ גוטן מועד!
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COMPLEXITYMingzhen Lu on The Evolution of Root Systems & Biogeochemical CyclingAs fictional Santa Fe Institute chaos mathematician Ian Malcolm famously put it, “Life finds a way” — and this is perhaps nowhere better demonstrated than by roots: seeking out every opportunity, improving in their ability to access and harness nutrients as they’ve evolved over the last 400 million years. Roots also exemplify another maxim for living systems: “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” As the Earth’s climate has transformed, the plants and fungi have transformed along with it, reaching into harsh and unstable environments and proving themselves in a crucible of evolutionary innovation that has reshaped the biosphere. Dig dee...2022-03-2653 min
COMPLEXITYElizabeth Hobson on Animal Dominance HierarchiesIrrespective of your values, if you’re listening to this, you live in a pecking order. Dominance hierarchies, as they’re called by animal behaviorists, define the lives of social creatures. The society itself is a kind of individual that gathers information and adapts to its surroundings by encoding stable environmental features in the power relationships between its members. But what works for the society at large often results in violence and inequity for its members; as the founder of this field of research put it, “A grave seriousness lies over the chicken yard.” Over the last hundred years, the scie...2022-02-251h 13
COMPLEXITYHard Sci-Fi Worldbuilding, Robotics, Society, & Purpose with Gary BengierAs a careful study of the world, science is reflective and reactive — it constrains our flights of fancy, anchors us in hard-won fact. By contrast, science fiction is a speculative world-building exercise that guides imagination and foresight by marrying the known with the unknown. The field is vast; some sci-fi writers pay less tribute to the line between the possible and the impossible. Others, though, adopt a far more sober tactic and write “hard” sci fi that does its best to stay within the limits of our current paradigm while rooting visions of the future that can grow beyond and be...2022-02-1154 min
Wall Street Vision Investment Podcast40. How Porsche Made Hedge Funds Lose €20 billion in the VW Short SqueezeDid you know that at one point Volkswagen (VW) became the most valuable company in the world? It was a surprising event that caught virtually everyone off guard.
You might be asking, “How the heck does a capital-intensive automaker become the #1 company in the world?”. Well, it’s a fascinating story that involves short sellers, hedge funds and a secret plan by the Porsche family to take over VW. It also resulted in short sellers getting burned to the tune of €20 billion. Whoa!
There’s a research paper that examined what happened. It was written by Profess...2022-02-0130 min
American Fever Dream#630 A Conversation With A Holocaust Survivor Ft. Pinchas GutterToday, in honor of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Sami interviews Pinchas Gutter, a Holocaust survivor who is commited in educating people through telling his incredible story. Pinchas walks us through his whole life story and his memories from growing up in Poland before the occupation, and how his life changed forever once the Nazis invaded. They also discuss the state of the world today, and all the initiatives Pinchas has been a part of in order to ensure that his story as well as those of other survivors are forever preserved.To learn more about the...2022-01-271h 58
COMPLEXITYMultiscale Crisis Response: Melanie Moses & Kathy Powers, Part 2COVID has exposed and possibly amplified the polarization of society. What can we learn from taking a multiscale approach to crisis response? There are latencies in economies of scale, inequality of access and supply chain problems. The virus evolves faster than peer review. Science is politicized. But thinking across scales offers answers, insights, better questions…Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the dee...2022-01-2746 min
COMPLEXITYFractal Inequality & The Complexity of Repair: Kathy Powers & Melanie Moses, Part 1Some people say we’re all in the same boat; others say no, but we’re all in the same storm. Wherever you choose to focus the granularity of your inquiry, one thing is certain: we are all embedded in, acting on, and being acted upon by the same nested networks. Our fates are intertwined, but our destinies diverge like weather forecasts, hingeing on small variations in contingency: the circumstances of our birth, the changing contexts of our lives. Seen through a complex systems science lens, the problem of unfairness — in economic opportunity, in health care access, in susceptibility to a pa...2022-01-1346 min
COMPLEXITYReflections on COVID-19 with David Krakauer & Geoffrey WestIf you’re honest with yourself, you’re likely asking of the last two years: What happened? The COVID-19 pandemic is a prism through which our stories and predictions have refracted…or perhaps it’s a kaleidoscope, through which we can infer relationships and causes, but the pieces all keep shifting. One way to think about humankind’s response to COVID is as a collision between predictive power and understanding, highlighting how far the evolution of our comprehension has trailed behind the evolution of our tools. Another way of looking at it is in terms of bottlenecks and reservoirs — whether it’s...2021-12-221h 10
COMPLEXITYTina Eliassi-Rad on Democracies as Complex SystemsDemocracy is a quintessential complex system: citizens’ decisions shape each other’s in nonlinear and often unpredictable ways; the emergent institutions exert top-down regulation on the individuals and orgs that live together in a polity; feedback loops and tipping points abound. And so perhaps it comes as no surprise in our times of turbulence and risk that democratic processes are under extraordinary pressure from the unanticipated influences of digital communications media, rapidly evolving economic forces, and the algorithms we’ve let loose into society.In a new special feature at PNAS co-edited by SFI Science Board Member Simon...2021-12-1358 min
COMPLEXITYSimon DeDeo on Good Explanations & Diseases of EpistemologyWhat makes a satisfying explanation? Understanding and prediction are two different goals at odds with one another — think fundamental physics versus artificial neural networks — and even what defines a “simple” explanation varies from one person to another. Held in a kind of ecosystemic balance, these diverse approaches to seeking knowledge keep each other honest…but the use of one kind of knowledge to the exclusion of all others leads to disastrous results. And in the 21st Century, the difference between good and bad explanations determines how society adapts as rapid change transforms the world most people took for granted — and sends human...2021-11-241h 21
COMPLEXITYLauren Klein on Data Feminism (Part 2): Tracing Linguistic InnovationWhere does cultural innovation come from? Histories often simplify the complex, shared work of creation into tales of Great Men and their visionary genius — but ideas have precedents, and moments, and it takes two different kinds of person to have and to hype them. The popularity of “influencers” past and present obscures the collaborative social processes by which ideas are born and spread. What can new tools for the study of historical literature tell us about how languages evolve…and what might a formal understanding of innovation change about the ways we work together?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official...2021-11-0533 min
COMPLEXITYLauren Klein on Data Feminism (Part 1): Surfacing Invisible LaborWhen British scientist and novelist C.P. Snow described the sciences and humanities as “two cultures” in 1959, it wasn’t a statement of what could or should be, but a lament over the sorry state of western society’s fractured intellectual life. Over sixty years later the costs of this fragmentation are even more pronounced and dangerous. But advances in computing now make it possible for historians and engineers to speak in one another’s languages, catalyzing novel insights in each other’s home domains. And doing so, the academics working at these intersections have illuminated hidden veins in history: the...2021-10-2346 min
UEH - University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City#1 - Thực hành tài chính bền vững tại Doanh nghiệp: Đẩy mạnh chuyển đổi số và nâng cao nhận thức người tiêu dùngBản tin kiến thức KINH TẾ SỐ UEH là bản tin nằm trong Chuỗi bài lan tỏa nghiên cứu và kiến thức ứng dụng từ UEH. Bản tin phát hành 2 kỳ/tuần với các chủ đề kinh tế ứng dụng hot nhất mọi thời đại được hiện bởi đội ngũ chuyên gia, nhà khoa học UEH.
Bản tin kiến thức KINH TẾ SỐ UEH kỳ 5 với chủ đề Thực hành tài chính bền vững tại Doanh nghiệp: Đẩy mạnh chuyển đổi số và nâng cao nhận thức người ti...2021-10-1308 min
COMPLEXITYW. Brian Arthur (Part 2) on "Prim Dreams of Order vs. Messy Vitality" in Economics, Math, and PhysicsCan you write a novel using only nouns? Well, maybe…but it won’t be very good, nor easy, nor will it tell a story. Verbs link events, allow for narrative, communicate becoming. So why, in telling stories of our economic lives, have people settled into using algebraic theory ill-suited to the task of capturing the fundamentally uncertain, open and evolving processes of innovation and exchange?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our world...2021-10-071h 03
COMPLEXITYW. Brian Arthur on Economics in Nouns and Verbs (Part 1)What is the economy? People used to tell stories about the exchange of goods and services in terms of flows and processes — but over the last few hundred years, economic theory veered toward measuring discrete amounts of objects. Why? The change has less to do with the objective nature of economies and more to do with what tools theorists had available. And scientific instruments — be they material technologies or concepts — don’t just make new things visible, but also hide things in new blind spots. For instance, algebra does very well with ratios and quantities…but fails to properly address what ma...2021-09-2451 min
COMPLEXITYTyler Marghetis on Breakdowns & Breakthroughs: Critical Transitions in Jazz & MathematicsWhether in an ecosystem, an economy, a jazz ensemble, or a lone scholar thinking through a problem, critical transitions — breakdowns and breakthroughs — appear to follow universal patterns. Creative leaps that take place in how mathematicians “think out loud” with body, chalk, and board look much like changes in the movement through “music-space” traced by groups of improvisers. Society itself appears to have an “aha moment” when a meme goes viral or a new word emerges in the popular vocabulary. How do collectives at all scales — be they neurons, research groups, or a society at large — suddenly change shape…and what early warning signs...2021-09-091h 04
COMPLEXITYKatherine Collins on Better Investing Through BiomimicryWe are all investors: we all make choices, all the time, about our allocation of time, calories, attention… Even our bodies, our behavior and anatomy, represent investment in specific strategies for navigating an evolving world. And yet most people treat the world of finance as if it is somehow separate from the rest of life — including people who design the tools of finance, or who come up with economic theories. Many of the human world’s problems can be traced back to this fundamental error, and, by extension, many of the problems we create for other life-forms on this planet...2021-08-141h 06
COMPLEXITYDeborah Gordon on Ant Colonies as Distributed ComputersThe popular conception of ants is that “anatomy is destiny”: an ant’s body type determines its role in the colony, for once and ever. But this is not the case; rather than forming rigid castes, ants act like a distributed computer in which tasks are re-allocated as the situation changes. “Division of labor” implies a constant “assembly line” environment, not fluid adaptation to evolving conditions. But ants do not just “graduate” from one task to another as they age; they pivot to accept the work required by their colony in any given moment. In this “agile” and dynamic process, ants act more...2021-07-3054 min
The Locher RoomConversations with Alan - My Mother-s Story 1-6-2021Join me for a very special Conversations with Alan in The Locher Room on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at 7 p.m. EST. My life story is one that could have turned out quite differently if not for some very brave men and women who risked their lives and the lives of their families to save my mother and father when the Nazi's started rounding up Jews in Holland during World War II. Tonight I will share my mother’s personal story of survival and talk about those brave men and women who are the reason my sister and I are al...2021-07-1637 min
COMPLEXITYReconstructing Ancient Superhighways with Stefani Crabtree and Devin WhiteSeventy thousand years ago, humans migrated on foot across the ancient continent of Sahul — the landmass that has since split up into Australia and New Guinea. Mapping the journeys of these ancient voyagers is no small task: previous efforts to understand prehistoric migrations relied on coarse estimates based on genomic studies or on spotty records of recovered artifacts.Now, progress in the fields of geographic information system mapping and agent-based modeling can help archaeologists run massive simulations that explore all likely paths across a landscape, bridging the view from orbit with thoughtful models of prehistoric peoples and how...2021-07-161h 06
COMPLEXITYMark Ritchie on A New Thermodynamics of Biochemistry, Part 2This week we conclude our two-part discussion with ecologist Mark Ritchie of Syracuse University on how he and his SFI collaborators are starting to rethink the intersections of thermodynamics and biology to better fit our scientific models to the patterns we observe in nature. Most of what we know about the enzymatic processes of plant and animal metabolisms comes from test tube experiments, not studies in the context of a living organism. What changes when we zoom out and think about life’s manufacturing and distribution in situ?Starting where we left off in in Episode 62, we tou...2021-07-0245 min
COMPLEXITYMark Ritchie on A New Thermodynamics of Biochemistry, Part 1Deep inside your cells, the chemistry of life is hard at work to make the raw materials and channel the energy required for growth, maintenance, and reproduction. Few systems are as intricate or as mysterious. For this reason, how a cell does what it does remains a frontier for research — and, consequently, theory often grows unchecked by solid data. Most of what we know about the enzymatic processes of plant and animal metabolisms comes from test tube experiments, not studies in the context of a living organism. How much has this necessarily reductionist approach misled us, and what changes wh...2021-06-1840 min
COMPLEXITYAndrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 2: Humboldt's Dangerous IdeaThe 19th Century saw many transformations: the origins of ecology and modern climatology, new unifying theories of the living world, the first Big Science projects, revolutions in the Spanish colonies, new information systems for the storage and representation of data… Many of these can be traced back to the influence of one singular explorer, Alexander von Humboldt. Humboldt was one of the last true polymathic individuals in whom the sum of human knowledge could be seated. As the known world grew, he leaned increasingly upon the work and minds of his collaborators — a kind of human bridge between the age o...2021-06-0448 min
COMPLEXITYAndrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 1: Humboldt's NaturegemäldeWhen you hear the word “nature,” what comes to mind? Chances are, if you are listening to this in the 21st Century, the image is one of a vast, interconnected, living network — one in which you and your fellow human beings play a complicated part. And yet, this is a relatively recent way of thinking for the modern West. It takes a special kind of thinker — and a special kind of life — to find and recognize the patterns that connect different environments around the planet. Until the pioneering research of 19th-Century explorer Alexander von Humboldt, no one had ever noticed globa...2021-05-2151 min
COMPLEXITYSidney Redner on Statistics and Everyday LifeComplexity is all around us: in the paths we walk through pathless woods, the strategies we use to park our cars, the dynamics of an elevator as it cycles up and down a building. Zoom out far enough and the phenomena of everyday existence start revealing hidden links, suggesting underlying universal patterns. At great theoretic heights, it all yields to statistical analysis: winning streaks and traffic jams, card games and elevators. Boiling down complicated real-world situations into elegant toy models, physicists derive mathematical descriptions that transcend mundane particulars — helping us see daily life with fresh new eyes.Wel...2021-05-0757 min
COMPLEXITYOrit Peleg on the Collective Behavior of Honeybees & Fireflies“More than the sum of its parts” is practically the slogan of systems thinking. One canonical example is a beehive: individually, a honeybee is not that clever, but together they can function like shapeshifting metamaterials or mesh networks — some of humankind’s most sophisticated innovations. Emergent collective behavior is common in the insect world — and not just among superstar collaborators like bees, ants, and termites. One firefly, alone, blinks randomly; together, fireflies effect an awe-inspiring synchrony in large, coordinated light shows scientists are only starting to explain. It turns out that diversity is key, even in a swarm; variety improves the...2021-04-231h 00
COMPLEXITYJonas Dalege on The Physics of Attitudes & BeliefsHuman relationships are often described in the language of “chemistry” — does that make the beliefs and attitudes of individuals a kind of “physics”? It is, at least, a fascinating avenue of inquiry. In particular, the field of statistical mechanics offers potent tools for understanding how exactly people form their views and change their minds. From this perspective, everyone is a dynamic network of opinions and values, in a tense and ever-changing balance both with others and ourselves. The “chemistry” of social life, then, arises from multilevel interactions in our noisy minds and how they influence each other.Welcome to Comp...2021-04-0947 minThe 'Yiddish Voice' PodcastPinchas Gutter Interview (Part 2), Yom HashoahIn this show we observe Yom HaShoah with part 2 of a fantastic new interview with Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter, discussing his experiences as a boy growing up in Lodz, Poland, later relocating to Warsaw, surviving the Warsaw Ghetto as well as deportation to the Majdanek death camp. This week's show the second part of the discussion, with the first part having aired the previous Wednesday, March 31, 2021. Pinchas Gutter is well known as a Holocaust survivor, and frequently serves as a speaker and educator in various forums around the world. He was the first survivor to create a lifelike hologram...2021-04-091h 32The 'Yiddish Voice' PodcastPinchas Gutter Interview (Part 1); Shvii & Acharon Shal PesachIn this show we finish out Pesach and transition to Yom HaShoah with a fantastic new interview with Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter, discussing his experiences as a boy growing up in Lodz, Poland, later relocating to Warsaw, surviving the Warsaw Ghetto as well as deportation to the Majdanek death camp. This week's show presents the first part of the discussion, with the second part airing the following Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Pinchas Gutter is well known as a Holocaust survivor, and frequently serves as a speaker and educator in various forums around the world. He was the first survivor to create...2021-04-011h 06
Timesuck with Dan Cummins237 - The Pig Farmer Killer: Canada's Filthy Robert PicktonRobert Pickton was born in 1949 just outside of Vancouver, CA, in Port Coquitlam, on a pig farm. His parents were Helen and Leonard Pickton, two insanely filthy human beings who couldn’t have cared less about clean clothes or a house that wasn’t full of animal shit or even about bathing their children, Robert, his sister Linda, and his brother, Dave. Robert would live on the family farm his entire life before going to prison for the murder of six women. Police had evidence that he killed at least another twenty, but it was unnecessary to also try him...2021-03-292h 15
COMPLEXITYJ. Doyne Farmer on The Complexity Economics RevolutionOnce upon a time at UC Santa Cruz, a group of renegade grad students started mixing physics with math and computers, determined to discover underlying patterns in the seeming-randomness of systems like the weather and roulette. Their research led to major insights in the emerging field of chaos theory, and eventually to the new discipline of complexity economics — which brings models from ecology and physics, cognitive science and biology together to improve our understanding of how value flows through networks, how people make decisions, and how new technologies evolve. As the human world weaves new global economic systems and sust...2021-03-261h 04
Scared To DeathThe Worley Hospital"Something was moving towards them - coming from down the hall. Carlos swore he could see something back in the shadows. Whipping their flashlights around - they DID see something. They all three saw a small, dark, evil creature quickly approaching them from no more than twenty feet away…"
This weeks Scared To Death is truly unlike any other episode! Dan and Lynze welcome a VERY special guest, Mustafa Gatollori from A&E's Ghost Hunters!
The episode begins with Dan sharing the tale of the Worley Hospital in Pampa, Texas. The iconic Worley Hospital has be...2021-03-241h 31
Timesuck with Dan Cummins236 - The Yosemite Killer and the Abduction of Steven StaynerWe got a wild one today. Today's Suck is really three Sucks in one. There is the abduction of Steven Stayner, the backstory of a notorious pedophile, Kenneth Parnell, and the story of serial killer, Cary Stayner aka the Yosemite Killer. In late 1972, Steven was abducted on the way home from school, at the age of seven, and he wouldn't see his family for another seven years. And that entire seven years, he'd be assaulted by Parnell. And then, after escaping, he'd move back into the room he shared with his older brother, Cary. And years later, Cary Stayner...2021-03-222h 18
Scared To Death“Hold Him Down!”"After having spent a night in room 314, a doctor and his wife mentioned an encounter with something paranormal at checkout one morning. The doctor had been awakened several times by a gentle tickling sensation on his feet in the middle of the night. In his sleepy state he was convinced that the comforter or the sheets were somehow responsible for the sensation of something lightly brushing his feet. But then, the final time it occurred, he looked down to distinctly see a little girl tickling his feet. He said she smiled and then vanished."
Could...2021-03-171h 13
Timesuck with Dan Cummins235 - Ward MF'n HallToday we take a huge deviation for the type of topic we typically cover here on Timesuck. The Space Lizards on Patreon vote on two topics a month through the app, and for today, they voted in my grandfather who passed away back on December 23rd. Probably the most influential person in my life. Today, I cover how the Hall family ended up in Idaho which leads to a history of Idaho settlement. My great-great-grandfather was one of the area's first homesteaders. I also share a lot of stories from my childhood, about central Idaho, and of course Papa...2021-03-152h 15
Ask a HistorianWhy do many young people lack basic knowledge about the Holocaust and how do we fix this?The full show transcript is available on our website. https://history.wisc.edu/ask-a-historian/
Recent studies conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany have produced concerning statistics on deficits in Holocaust knowledge among American millennials and Gen Z-ers. Why do many young people lack basic knowledge about the Holocaust, and how do we fix this?
Professor Dan Stolz interviews Professor Brandon Bloch about the historical development of Holocaust education, how recent literature reframes our understanding of the Holocaust as part of American history, and why it's necessary to rethink the goals of...2021-03-1336 min
COMPLEXITYJames Evans on Social Computing and Diversity by DesignIn the 21st Century, science is a team sport played by humans and computers, both. Social science in particular is in the midst of a transition from the qualitative study of small groups of people to the quantitative and computer-aided study of enormous data sets created by the interactions of machines and people. In this new ecology, wanting AI to act human makes no sense, but growing “alien” intelligences offers useful difference — and human beings find ourselves empowered to identify new questions no one thought to ask. We can direct our scientific inquiry into the blind spots that our algorit...2021-03-121h 00
Timesuck with Dan Cummins234 - The Elan School, the Cult of Synanon, and the Troubling Troubled Teen IndustryFounded in 1974 by a man named Joe Ricci, the Elan School was supposed to be someplace where you could send your troubled teen so they could be rehabilitated and put back on the right track. But in reality, it was a cruel and chaotic nightmare where students were constantly being pressured to confess to things they’d done “wrong,” called “guilts,” which often were things as silly and not-wrong as having a crush on someone or smiling too much. At Elan, student was pitted against student in insane psychological mind-games and also pitted against each other physically. And most all of thi...2021-03-082h 24
Scared To DeathThe School of Shadows"She’d later tell investigators, who were still trying to catch Phillip’s killer, that she was hearing noises coming from inside the walls of the home. Scratching, rattling noises. She sometimes could hear what sounded like someone breathing. Or someone whispering. The police came over to investigate…. and found nothing. A few days later, the nurse called them again. This time, she reported seeing an apparition on the back stairs that “chattered its teeth at her” before completely disappearing into the darkness."
Dan and Lynze keep the scares coming in this 78th episode of Scared To...2021-03-031h 12
Blood, Fear, and Beer: A Horror Movie Podcast038 La Llorona (2020)We have one word to describe this week's movie: wow. Jayro Bustamante's 2020 dark masterpiece La Llorona seamlessly blends horror elements with the story of the real-life atrocities committed against the indigenous people of Guatemala. Grab yourself a beer (or maybe something stronger) and join us as we are treated to an incredibly insightful listener voicemail before diving into the horrifying true story that inspired this beautiful film and the elements that make it work so well. It's a heavy one!
For more information on the USC Shoah foundation mentioned in the episode, visit https://sfi.usc.edu/c...2021-03-021h 10
Timesuck with Dan Cummins233 - Blackwater and the US Private Military IndustryBlackwater. Now known as Academi. Once known as Xe Services. A private military company. One of many PMCs very active in Iraq and Afghanistan in the first decade of this century. One of many employers of "security contractors" contracted by the Department of Defense, or State Department, or the CIA to work alongside - or sometimes in place of - active military personnel in war zones around the world. What, exactly, do companies like Blackwater do? Is it a good or bad idea to privatize the military? Are PMCs a new thing? When did they become part of the...2021-03-012h 23
COMPLEXITYDavid Stork on AI Art HistoryArt history is a lot like archaeology — we here in the present day get artifacts and records, but the gaps between them are enormous, and the questions that they beg loom large. Historians need to be able to investigate and interpret, to unpack the meanings and the methods of a given work of art — but even for the best, the act of reconstruction is a trying test. Can we program computers to decipher the backstory of a painting — analyzing light and shadow to guess at how a piece was made? And, even more ambitiously, can AI learn to see and tell...2021-02-261h 00
COMPLEXITYAlien Crash Site Invades Complexity: Tamara van der Does on Sci-Fi Science, with Guest Co-host Caitlin McSheaThe consequence of living in a complex world: one tiny tweak can lead to massive transformation. Set the stage a slightly different way, and the entire play might unfold differently. This path-dependency shows up in both the science fiction premise and the hypothesis of scientific research: What can we learn about the hidden order of our cosmos by adjusting just a single variable?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of ri...2021-02-1250 min
COMPLEXITYMark Moffett on Canopy Biology & The Human SwarmMost maps of the world render landscapes in 2D — yet wherever we observe ecosystems, they stratify into a third dimension. The same geometries that describe the dizzying diversity of species in the canopies of forests also govern life in other living systems, from the oceans to the linings of our mouths. Behind the many forms, a hidden order shapes how organisms live in and on each other — and this emerging discipline of “canopy biology” may yield important insights into modern urban life. Human societies, like gigantic swarms of ants, are elaborately coordinated super-organisms. In these enormous in-groups, one key feature is th...2021-01-291h 12
COMPLEXITYCris Moore on Algorithmic Justice & The Physics of InferenceIt’s tempting to believe that people can outsource decisions to machines — that algorithms are objective, and it’s easier and fairer to dump the burden on them. But convenience conceals the complicated truth: when lives are made or broken by AI, we need transparency about the way we ask computers questions, and we need to understand what kinds of problems they’re not suited for. Sometimes we may be using the wrong models, and sometimes even great models fail when fed sparse or noisy data. Applying physics insights to the practical concerns of what an algorithm can and cannot do...2021-01-151h 11
COMPLEXITYScience in The Time of COVID: Michael Lachmann & Sam Scarpino on Lessons from The PandemicCOVID-19 hasn’t just disrupted the “normal” of everyone’s social practices in what we take for granted as “daily life.” The pandemic has also, more granularly, changed the way scientists research and publish; it has changed the way science interfaces with institutions as varied as local governments and cell phone companies; it has changed the way we host and produce this podcast. This episode, for instance, with SFI External Professor Sam Scarpino and Resident Professor Michael Lachmann was recorded live over a year-end Donor Appreciation Zoom call, for those who both contributed to SFI in 2020 and could handle yet one more...2020-12-2359 min
COMPLEXITYArtemy Kolchinsky on "Semantic Information" & The Physics of MeaningMatter, energy, and information: the holy trinity of physics. Understanding the relations between these measures of our world are one of the big questions of complex systems science.The laws of thermodynamics tell us that entropy (loosely but somewhat inaccurately speaking, “disorder”) increases in any closed material system. But at the same time living systems constantly pump out entropy, thereby keeping themselves alive by harnessing flows of energy and information. We know that physical systems gain or lose energy as heat — what is the difference between exchanging heat and exchanging signals with information relevant to a system’s surviva...2020-12-111h 01
COMPLEXITYPeter Dodds on Text-Based Timeline Analysis & New Instruments for The Science of Stories"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”– Vladimir Ilyich LeninWhen human beings saw the first pictures of the Earth from space, the impact was transformative. New instruments for taking in new vistas, for understanding our relationships and contexts at a different scale, have in some ways defined the history of not just science but the evolution of intelligence. And now, thanks to the surfeit of textual data offered up by social media, researchers can peer into the dynamics of human society and analyze the turbulent flows of stories that drive our...2020-11-261h 30
COMPLEXITYScott Ortman on Archaeological Synthesis and Settlement Scaling TheoryThe modern world has a way of distancing itself from everything that came before it…and yet the evidence from archaeology supports a different story. While industrial societies tend to praise markets and advanced technologies as the main drivers of the last few centuries of change, a careful study of civilizations as distinct as Ancient Rome, Peru, and Central Mexico reveals an underlying uniformity. Consistent patterns have played out in human settlements across millennia and continents, regardless of the economic systems we’ve employed or the inventions on which we’ve relied. These patterns, furthermore, look just like those that go...2020-11-1254 min
COMPLEXITYHelena Miton on Cultural Evolution in Music and Writing SystemsOrganisms aren’t the only products of the evolutionary process. Cultural products such as writing, art, and music also undergo change over time, subject to both the constraints of the physical environment and the psychologies of those who make them. In recent years, the study of cultural evolution has exploded with new insights — revelations into the dynamics of how culture is transmitted, how it mutates under different pressures, and why some forms are remarkably resilient and stable across time and space. Just as in biology, patterns in the structures of our artifacts converge on universals and diverge to meet the n...2020-10-291h 01
COMPLEXITYDavid Wolpert on The No Free Lunch Theorems and Why They Undermine The Scientific MethodOn the one hand, we have math: a world of forms and patterns, a priori logic, timeless and consistent. On the other, we have physics: messy and embodied interactions, context-dependent and contingent on a changing world. And yet, many people get the two confused, including physicists and mathematicians. Where the two meet, and the nature of the boundary between them, is a matter of debate — one of the greatest puzzles known to science and philosophy — but some things can be said for sure about what can and cannot be accomplished in the search for ever-better models of our world. One is...2020-10-1552 min
COMPLEXITYIntroducing Alien Crash Site, a new SFI Podcast with host Caitlin McSheaWelcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.This week we present something different: SFI’s InterPlanetary Project is excited to announce a new podcast, Alien Crash Site, in which we ask some of the most interesting people we know — scientists, artists, authors, and athletes — what strange technologies they might hope to find in a “Zone” like the alien visita...2020-10-0920 min
COMPLEXITYVicky Yang & Henrik Olsson on Political Polling & Polarization: How We Make Decisions & IdentitiesWhether you live in the USA or have just been watching the circus from afar, chances are that you agree: “polarization” dominates descriptions of the social landscape. Judging from the news alone, one might think the States have never been so painfully divided…yet nuanced public polls, and new behavioral models, suggest another narrative: the United States is largely moderate, and people have much more in common with each other than they think. There’s no denying our predicament: cognitive biases lead us to “out-group” one another even when we might be allies, and the game of politics drives a two-party...2020-09-301h 10
Inside Ideas with Marc BuckleyScience should put its business hat onAndy Dobson was born in London and moved to live in Scotland before starting school. He spent the next fifteen years becoming a keen birdwatcher and bibliophile. He commuted daily from a small village on the edge of the Highlands to Glasgow High School. His family moved to Essex in 1970 and he completed school at King Edwards VI Grammar School, Chelmsford where he spent a lot of time measuring a museum collection of bird eggs and trying to quantify changes in their shape and size.
He went to Imperial College, London University as a Botanist and emerged as...2020-09-231h 23
COMPLEXITYCarl Bergstrom & Jevin West on Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven WorldNow, maybe more than ever before, it is time to learn the art of skepticism. Amidst compounded complex crises, humankind must also navigate a swelling tidal wave of outright lies, clever misdirections, and well-meant but dangerous mistaken claims….in other words, bullshit. Why is the 21st Century such a hotbed of fake news? How can we structure our networks and their incentives to mitigate disinformation and encourage speaking truth to power? And whose responsibility is it to inform the public and other experts about scientific research, when those insights require training to understand?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the off...2020-09-1758 min
COMPLEXITYNatalie Grefenstette on Agnostic Biosignature DetectionIs there life on Mars? Or Titan? What are we even looking for? Without a formal definition, inquiries into the stars just echo noise. But then, perhaps, the noise contains a signal… To find life elsewhere in the universe requires us to wager a defined biology, to come to terms with what it means to be alive. Looking out is looking in, to ask the hardest question ever: How do we find something we might not recognize as what we’re seeking?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michae...2020-09-0256 min
Big BiologyCROSSOVER: On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity with David Krakauer (Complexity podcast from the Santa Fe Institute)This podcast was originally broadcast by Complexity, a podcast from the Santa Fe Institute on April, 20 2020.Big Biology has featured several scientists connected to the Santa Fe Institute, and now SFI has its own podcast called Complexity.You can listen to all of their episodes here: https://complexity.simplecast.com/This episode, as well as show notes, are available here: https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/29Complexity features wide-ranging conversations with the Santa Fe Institute’s scientists, mathematicians, philosophers and artists who are trying to understand the deepest my...2020-08-2644 min
COMPLEXITYFractal Conflicts & Swing Voters with Eddie LeeSince the 1940s, scientists have puzzled over a curious finding: armed conflict data reveals that human battles obey a power-law distribution, like avalanches and epidemics. Just like the fractal surfaces of mountains and cauliflowers, the shape of violence looks the same at any level of magnification. Beyond the particulars of why we fight, this pattern suggests a deep hidden order in the physical laws governing society. And, digging into new analyses of data from both armed conflicts and voting patterns, complex systems researchers have started to identify the so-called “pivotal components” — the straw that breaks the camel’s back, the spark t...2020-07-241h 02
COMPLEXITYFighting Hate Speech with AI & Social Science (with Joshua Garland, Mirta Galesic, and Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi)The magnitude of interlocking “wicked problems” we humans face today is daunting…and made all the worse by the widening schisms in our public discourse, the growing prominence of hate speech and prejudicial violence. How can we collaborate at scale if it’s not even safe to act as citizens, to participate in a sufficiently diverse society, without becoming targets? The World Wide Web has made it easier than ever for hate groups to organize…but also grants new power to those willing to oppose the hateful. New tactics such as “counter speech” have sprung up to depolarize society. But do they wo...2020-07-151h 05
COMPLEXITYThe Art & Science of Resilience in the Wake of Trauma with Laurence GonzalesEach of us at some point in our lives will face traumatizing hardship — abuse or injury, lack or loss. And all of us must weather the planetwide effects of this pandemic, economic instability, systemic inequality, and social unrest…and find a way to live on with their consequences. Trauma isn’t evenly distributed. But it IS ubiquitous, and learning how to get on with our lives is one of our main tasks as human beings. From this hardship grows the best of us: our wisdom, compassion, creativity, and service. By understanding the psychology and neuroscience of the body-min...2020-07-0659 min
COMPLEXITYBetter Scientific Modeling for Ecological & Social Justice with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 7)Mathematical models of the world — be they in physics, economics, epidemiology — capture only details that researchers notice and deem salient. Rather than objective claims about reality, they encode (and thus enact) our blind spots. And the externalities created by those models — microscopic pathogens invisible to the naked eye, or differences in the social network structures of two neighborhoods, or food webs disrupted by urban development — have a way of biting back when we ignore them. Structural inequality created by an insufficient model jeopardizes not just the ones left off the map, but the entire systems in which they participate. Science fic...2020-06-0840 min
Ari in the AirJim Rutt - The Road to Game BJim Rutt is an influential thinker, writer and podcaster. He's an American businessman and entrepreneur, the former CEO of Network Solutions, and the former chairman of the Santa Fe Institute.
We talk about the transition to a new way of existing, aka the road to Game B. He has amazing insights on how we can go from where we are to where we ought to be.
Support this show by donating at www.paypal.me/ariintheair
Find Jim's podcast at https://www.jimruttshow.com
Find Jim's writing at https://medium.com/@memetic007
And more about Jim https://www.santafe.edu...2020-06-031h 01
COMPLEXITYThe Future of the Human Climate Niche with Tim Kohler & Marten SchefferHumans, like any other organism, occupy a niche — a “Goldilocks Zone” for which our biology is suited, relatively to the extreme diversity of habitats on Earth. But to understand the natural habitat of human beings we would first have to perform a comprehensive survey of human settlements throughout history and prehistory, looking for patterns in the climate data. No one did this research until very recently, and what they found surprised them. Human life, especially the outdoor work like farming on which our societies depend, is suited only to a very narrow band of temperature and moisture levels, a tiny ar...2020-06-0256 min
COMPLEXITYExponentials, Economics, and Ecology with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 6)If COVID-19 has made anything obvious to everyone, it might be how the very small can force the transformation of the very large. Disrupt the right place in a network and exponential changes ripple outward: a virus causes a disease that leads to economic shocks and other social impacts that, in turn, re-open urban spaces to nonhuman animals and change the course of evolution.Adapting to these changes will require a different kind of understanding: one of nonlinear dynamics, feedback loops, extended selves, and the tiered and interwoven ecological and economic systems of our planet. By studying...2020-05-1147 min
COMPLEXITYEmbracing Complexity for Systemic Interventions with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 5)It takes effort to embrace complexity. Simple models, simple narratives seem easier up front, their consequences only obvious in retrospect. When we talk about COVID-19 transmission rates, we’re using averages that do not offer crucial insights into how those rates may vary. When we target complex ailments with silver-bullet pharmaceuticals, we don’t address the underlying systems-level problems. Radical uncertainty resists attempts at easy answers, forcing changes in the pace at which we take shots in the dark. Sometimes, as with infection testing, we can’t seem to take shots fast enough.But understanding systems helps identi...2020-05-0544 min
Veja Bem PodcastVBMais 52 - Complexidade (Parte 2)Reflexões sobre o cenário atual do covid-19 + lista dos 5 episódios mais escutados do VBMais. Qual ficou em primeiro lugar? Por quê? Veja bem. Mais.
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VB 53 – Mentiras Necessárias
VBMais 38 – Leis (parte 1)
VBMais 19 – Redução da Maioridade Penal
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COMPLEXITYRethinking Our Assumptions During the COVID-19 Crisis with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 4)COVID-19 has delivered an extraordinary shock to our assumptions, be they in how we practice education, business, research, or governance. When we base forecasts on bad data, even solid logic gives us unreliable results. Centralized authority is good for organized coherent action but isn’t agile or fine-grained enough to deal with local variance and rapidly evolving novel challenges. Surveillance can save lives but also threatens privacy upon which a diverse society depends. A longer memory might cost more to maintain, but also save more by preventing even larger economic burdens down the road.How we adapt to...2020-04-2751 min
Тамид - Первый еврейский подкаст(Tamid Podcast)Тамид 5. Йом ХаШоа: Иегуда Бауэр «Как преподавать историю Холокоста в 21 веке» (перевод)Этот подкаст содержит перевод выступления одного из основателей академического исследования Холокоста, профессора Иегуды Бауэра. Вы узнаете об этом человеке, он расскажет вам, чем Холокост отличается от все остальных геноцидов, почему при преподавании таких сложных тем нельзя мыслить штампами и почему "Дневник Анны Франк" почти ничего не расскажет вам про Холокост.Оригинальное выступление: Teaching the Holocaust in the 21st centuryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xvJVCTYxpQ Информация о Иегуде Бауэреhttp://www.holocaustremembrance.com/working-definition-antisemitismhttps://www.holocaustremembrance.com/resources/funding/yehuda-bauer-grant https://www.yadvashem.org/research/about/bauer.htmlПесня Понары и статья о ней на сайт Яд Вашемаhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbR-6EjozMIhttps://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/music/shtiler-shtiler.aspНа сайтах этих фондов вы можете посмотреть видеосвидететсльство от людей, которые пережили Холокостhttps://sfi.usc.edu/video-topics https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/video-testimonies.html https://collections.ushmm.org/search/http://www.memorialdelashoah.org/en/archives-and-documentation/online-resources/testimonies-and-videos.html "Antisemitism and the Holocaust" - Yehuda Bauerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2JVK2vlTQgАвтор музыкального оформления Андрей Караман vk.com/karamankaramanhttps://soundcloud.com/karamanСпособы поддержать подкаст будуь указаны в описании чуть позже.2020-04-2134 min
Тамид - Первый еврейский подкаст на русском языке (Tamid Podcast)Тамид 5. Йом ХаШоа: Иегуда Бауэр «Как преподавать историю Холокоста в 21 веке» (перевод)Этот эпизод содержит перевод выступления одного из основателей академического исследования Холокоста, профессора Иегуды Бауэра. Вы узнаете об этом человеке, он расскажет вам, чем Холокост отличается от все остальных геноцидов, почему при преподавании таких сложных тем нельзя мыслить штампами и почему "Дневник Анны Франк" почти ничего не расскажет вам про Холокост.
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Оригинальное выступление: Teaching the Holocaust in the 21st century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xvJVCTYxpQ
Информация о Иегуде Бауэре
http://www.holocaustremembrance.com/working-definition-antisemitism
https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/resources/funding/yehuda-bauer-grant
https://www.yadvashem.org/research/about/bauer.html
Песня Понары и статья о ней на сайт Яд Вашема
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbR-6EjozMI
https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/music/shtiler-shtiler.asp
На сайтах этих фондов вы можете посмотреть видеосвидететсльство от людей, которые пережили Холокост
https://sfi.usc.edu/video-topics
https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/video-testimonies.html
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/
http://www.memorialdelashoah.org/en/archives-and-documentation/online-resources/testimonies-and-videos.html
"Antisemitism and the Holocaust" - Yehuda Bauer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2JVK2vlTQg
Автор музыкального оформления Андрей Караман vk.com/karamankaraman
https://soundcloud.com/karaman
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