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COMPLEXITY

Far-reaching conversations with a worldwide network of scientists and mathematicians, philosophers and artists developing new frameworks to explain our universe's deepest mysteries. Join host Michael ... Read more

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Jennifer Dunne on Food Webs & ArchaeoEcology

Jennifer Dunne on Food Webs & ArchaeoEcology

For as long as humans have erected walls around our cities, we’ve considered culture separate from the encircling wilder... Read more

30 Oct 2019

46mins

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Sabine Hauert on Swarming Across Scales

Sabine Hauert on Swarming Across Scales

If complex systems science had a mascot, it might be the murmuration. These enormous flocks of starlings darken skies ac... Read more

16 Oct 2019

39mins

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W. Brian Arthur (Part 1) on The History of Complexity Economics

W. Brian Arthur (Part 1) on The History of Complexity Economics

From its beginnings as a discipline nearly 150 years ago, economics rested on assumptions that don’t hold up when studie... Read more

8 Jan 2020

57mins

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Matthew Jackson on Social & Economic Networks

Matthew Jackson on Social & Economic Networks

It may be a cliché, but it’s a timeless truth regardless: who you know matters. The connectedness of actors in a network... Read more

18 Dec 2019

1hr 5mins

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Ray Monk on The Lives of Extraordinary Individuals: Wittgenstein, Russell, Oppenheimer

Ray Monk on The Lives of Extraordinary Individuals: Wittgenstein, Russell, Oppenheimer

In this show’s first episode, David Krakauer explained how art and science live along an axis of explanatory depth: scie... Read more

11 Dec 2019

50mins

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David B. Kinney on the Philosophy of Science

David B. Kinney on the Philosophy of Science

Science is often seen as a pure, objective discipline — as if it all rests neatly on cause and effect. As if the univers... Read more

20 Feb 2020

55mins

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Nicole Creanza on Cultural Evolution in Humans & Songbirds

Nicole Creanza on Cultural Evolution in Humans & Songbirds

One feature common to nonlinear phenomena is how they challenge intuitions. Maybe nowhere is this more apparent than in ... Read more

12 Mar 2020

1hr 6mins

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Melanie Mitchell on Artificial Intelligence: What We Still Don't Know

Melanie Mitchell on Artificial Intelligence: What We Still Don't Know

Since the term was coined in 1956, artificial intelligence has been a kind of mirror that tells us more about our theori... Read more

5 Mar 2020

1hr 17mins

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Luis Bettencourt on The Science of Cities

Luis Bettencourt on The Science of Cities

If you’re a human in this century, the odds are overwhelming that you are a city-dweller. These hubs of human cultural a... Read more

23 Oct 2019

50mins

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Albert Kao on Animal Sociality & Collective Computation

Albert Kao on Animal Sociality & Collective Computation

Over one hundred years ago, Sir Francis Galton asked 787 villagers to guess an ox’s weight. None of them got it right, b... Read more

27 Feb 2020

52mins

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Laurent Hébert-Dufresne on Halting the Spread of COVID-19

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 s... Read more

26 Mar 2020

49mins

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Mirta Galesic on Social Learning & Decision-making

Mirta Galesic on Social Learning & Decision-making

We live in a world so complicated and immense it challenges our comparably simple minds to even know which information w... Read more

27 Nov 2019

1hr 19mins

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Sam Scarpino on Modeling Disease Transmission & Interventions

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... Read more

1 Apr 2020

28mins

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Olivia Judson on Major Energy Transitions in Evolutionary History

Olivia Judson on Major Energy Transitions in Evolutionary History

It’s easy to take modern Earth for granted — our breathable atmosphere, the delicately balanced ecosystems we depend on ... Read more

20 Nov 2019

1hr 4mins

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Andy Dobson on Epidemic Modeling for COVID-19

Andy Dobson on Epidemic Modeling for COVID-19

Pandemics like the current novel coronavirus disease outbreak provide a powerful incentive to study the dynamics of comp... Read more

19 Mar 2020

36mins

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Chris Kempes on The Physical Constraints on Life & Evolution

Chris Kempes on The Physical Constraints on Life & Evolution

Why is the internal structure of Bacteria so different from the architecture of a nucleated cell? Why do some kinds of o... Read more

6 Feb 2020

1hr 2mins

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Melanie Moses on Metabolic Scaling in Biology & Computation

Melanie Moses on Metabolic Scaling in Biology & Computation

What is the difference between 100 kilograms of human being and 100 kilograms of algae? One answer to this question is t... Read more

4 Dec 2019

1hr 6mins

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W. Brian Arthur (Part 2) on The Future of The Economy

W. Brian Arthur (Part 2) on The Future of The Economy

If the economy is better understood as an evolving system, an out-of-equilibrium ecology composed of agents that adapt t... Read more

15 Jan 2020

1hr

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R. Maria del-Rio Chanona on Modeling Labor Markets & Tech Unemployment

R. Maria del-Rio Chanona on Modeling Labor Markets & Tech Unemployment

Since the first Industrial Revolution, most people have responded in one of two ways to the threat of technological unem... Read more

23 Jan 2020

50mins

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Kirell Benzi on Data Art & The Future of Science Communication

Kirell Benzi on Data Art & The Future of Science Communication

Science has always been about improving human understanding of our universe…but scientists have not always prioritized a... Read more

13 Feb 2020

1hr 6mins

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