J. Doyne Farmer on The Complexity Economics Revolution
Once 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 lik...
26 Mar 20211h 4min
James Evans on Social Computing and Diversity by Design
In 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 ...
12 Mar 20211h
David Stork on AI Art History
Art 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 ...
26 Feb 20211h
Alien Crash Site Invades Complexity: Tamara van der Does on Sci-Fi Science, with Guest Co-host Caitlin McShea
The 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-depende...
12 Feb 202150min
Mark Moffett on Canopy Biology & The Human Swarm
Most 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 ca...
29 Jan 20211h 12min
Cris Moore on Algorithmic Justice & The Physics of Inference
It’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 complicate...
15 Jan 20211h 11min
Science in The Time of COVID: Michael Lachmann & Sam Scarpino on Lessons from The Pandemic
COVID-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 ...
23 Des 202059min
Artemy Kolchinsky on "Semantic Information" & The Physics of Meaning
Matter, 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 thermo...
11 Des 20201h 1min
