Rajiv Sethi on Stereotypes, Crime, and The Pursuit of Justice
Exploring stereotypes' impact on society, justice, and online interactions. Discusses biases in attention and cognition, their consequences, and potential strategies for humanizing encounters with unfamiliar individuals.
Jennifer Dunne on Reconstructing Ancient Food Webs
Exploring ancient food webs to uncover ecological patterns, extinction dynamics, and sustainability insights. Reconstructed trophic networks reveal hidden order conserved for half a billion years, offering new perspectives on ecosystem structure and evol…
Luis Bettencourt on The Science of Cities
Luis Bettencourt explores the science of cities, examining their unique properties, scaling laws, and impact on human life. He discusses urban innovation, sustainability challenges, and the future of urban living.
Incentives, Levers and Beliefs
Explore psychological, social, and economic mechanisms to mitigate pandemics and their societal effects. Gain insights from experts on collective decision-making and applying rigorous social science concepts to combat current and future health crises.
Rigorous Uncertainty: Science During COVID-19 with David Krakauer
Exploring COVID-19's impact through complexity science, discussing citizen-based medicine, data challenges, group size recommendations, and out-of-equilibrium thinking to reveal hidden interconnections in modern life.
COVID-19 and Complex Time in Biology and Economics with David Krakauer
Explore complex systems insights on COVID-19, including timing's role in biology and economics, network dynamics, and societal adaptation to rapid change.
A Complex Systems Lens on Climate Policy
Exploring climate policy through complex systems, this talk offers innovative solutions to seemingly intractable environmental challenges, highlighting potential for rapid, transformative change in energy, transportation, and consumption.
Multiscale Crisis Response - Melanie Moses & Kathy Powers, Part 2
Exploring multiscale crisis response to COVID-19, examining societal polarization, scientific challenges, and institutional responses through a complexity science lens.
Cascading Transitions in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Explore cascading transitions in psycho-social systems, focusing on opinion change, learning, and addiction. Discover how these multilevel processes work and their potential impacts on society.
The Cultural Evolution of Cooperative Norms - Sarah Mathew
Explore the cultural evolution of cooperative norms, examining group selection, nested groups, and scale of cooperation. Gain insights into intergroup marriages and broader reflections on collective behavior.
From Individual-Level Cognition to Collective Dynamics - Ralf Kurvers
Explore collective dynamics in social systems through evidence accumulation models, evolutionary algorithms, and real-world applications in resource finding, predictions, and robotics.
Collective Convictions Catalyse Cooperation
Explore how shared beliefs drive cooperation, examining adaptive value, transitions, and neutral steps in collective behavior, with insights on narratives and group dynamics.
How Behavior Develops
Explore how infant behavior develops through natural practice, leading to flexible and adaptive skills. Learn about the role of everyday activities in shaping foundational behaviors and coping mechanisms.
James Evans on Social Computing and Diversity by Design
Exploring social computing's impact on scientific research, team diversity, and human-AI collaboration in the pursuit of novel insights and wisdom.
Cris Moore on Algorithmic Justice and The Physics of Inference
Exploring algorithmic justice and inference physics, this talk delves into the limits of AI decision-making, emphasizing transparency, model suitability, and the importance of understanding technology's boundaries in complex problem-solving.
Tina Eliassi-Rad on Democracies as Complex Systems
Exploring democracy as a complex system, examining its challenges and potential solutions through the lens of complexity science and machine learning.
Sequential Choice and Self-Reinforcing Rankings
Explore the mathematical consequences of choice systems where option rankings influence selection probabilities, and popularity determines rankings, leading to potential convergence and unpredictability.
The Uncertainty Paradox - Can Science Make Uncertainty Optimistic?
Explore the relationship between science, uncertainty, and optimism, examining how embracing uncertainty can lead to a more optimistic scientific perspective and improve public communication.
A New Thermodynamics of Biochemistry - Part 2
Exploring thermodynamics in living systems, from cellular metabolism to ecosystems. Insights on climate change, agriculture, and the search for extraterrestrial life through a new lens of biochemistry and physics.
The End of Everything - A Discussion
Explore philosophical perspectives on societal collapse, decentralization, and human resilience with experts discussing the end of everything and potential new social orders.
The Science of Networks - C4 Public Lectures
Explore the emerging science of networks, their structure, and function across diverse systems. Learn about phase transitions, interdependence, and mathematical models for predicting network behavior and consequences.