Fractal Conflicts & Swing Voters with Eddie Lee
Since 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 sur...
23 Juli 20201h 2min
Fighting 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 preju...
15 Juli 20201h 5min
The Art & Science of Resilience in the Wake of Trauma with Laurence Gonzales
Each 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, systemi...
6 Juli 202059min
Geoffrey West on Scaling, Open-Ended Growth, and Accelerating Crisis/Innovation Cycles: Transcendence or Collapse? (Part 2)
Cities define the modern world. They characterize the human era and its impacts on our planet. By bringing us together, these "social reactors" amplify the best in us: our creativity, efficiency, weal...
25 Juni 202058min
Scaling Laws & Social Networks in The Time of COVID-19 with Geoffrey West (Part 1)
We’re living through a unique moment in history. The interlocking crises of a global pandemic, widespread unemployment, social unrest, and climate change, show us just how far human civilization has t...
17 Juni 202049min
Better 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 ...
8 Juni 202040min
The Future of the Human Climate Niche with Tim Kohler & Marten Scheffer
Humans, 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 o...
2 Juni 202056min
Exponentials, 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 ou...
11 Maj 202047min
