Embracing 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...
4 Mai 202044min
Rethinking 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...
27 Apr 202051min
On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 3)
Our histories constrain what opportunities we notice and can take in life. The genes you have define the shape your body can grow into, in concert with environmental influences. But the cards you’re d...
20 Apr 202044min
Caroline Buckee on Improving COVID-19 Surveillance & Response
For this special mini-series covering the COVID19 pandemic, we will bring you into conversation with the scientists studying the bigger picture of this crisis, so you can learn their cutting-edge appr...
17 Apr 202045min
COVID-19 & Complex Time in Biology & Economics with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 2)
In several key respects, COVID-19 reveals how crucial timing is for human life. The lens of complex systems science helps us understand the central role of time in coordinating across scales, and how ...
13 Apr 202042min
Rigorous Uncertainty: Science During COVID-19 with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 1)
The coronavirus pandemic is in one sense a kind of prism: it reveals the many interlocking systems that, until disrupted, formed the mostly invisible backdrop of modern life, challenging the economy a...
6 Apr 202047min
Sam Scarpino on Modeling Disease Transmission & Interventions
“We should not have a strategy that involves killing a sizable percentage of the population. But, even if you were going to get over that ethical hurdle, [herd immunity for Covid-19] still isn't going...
1 Apr 202028min
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne on Halting the Spread of COVID-19
Chances are, if you are listening to this around the time it was released, you’re listening alone. Right now the human species is conducting one of the most sweeping synchronized experiments of all ti...
26 Mar 202049min
