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The Xapiens Podcast, hosted by two MIT Nuclear Physics PhD students, explores the bleeding edge ideas spanning biology, physics, chemistry, and computer science that mark our road to the future. Hear from experts in the field about the fundamental particles that make up the universe, revolutionary interfaces to the brain, and new technology that can change the way we interact with our futures. Listen to visionaries and Nobel prize winners, see what their hopes for the future look like, and how you can be a part of it.
XPC#5 - Sandy Pentland: "This is the Dominant Effect. Period."
Xapiens at MIT
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XPC#5 - Sandy Pentland: "This is the Dominant Effect. Period."
The Xapiens Podcast (XPC) Episode 5:
Join Xapiens Co-Director Bobby Johnston in a discussion with Alex (Sandy) Pentland. Sandy is a professor at the MIT Media lab, is on the advisory board for the UN Secretary General, UN Foundation, Consumers Union, and OECD, co-led the World Economic Forum leading to GDPR, and has delivered keynote addresses for OECD, G20, World Bank, and JP Morgan. He has co-founded a long list of companies (for example https://cogitocorp.com/, https://www.ginger.com/, and https://www.endor.com/).
He is the author of several books, the two discussed in this podcast are Social Physics (https://www.amazon.com/Social-Physics...) and Building the New Economy (https://www.amazon.com/Building-New-E...) which was published in October 2021.
We did not have enough time to cover in the breadth nor depth necessary to really understand all of his ideas, so I highly encourage you to read his books (social physics is also available as an audiobook), or watch some of his great video content available online, for example: https://www.media.mit.edu/articles/re...
REFERENCE LINKS:
Paper discussing social physics as spin glass: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.1357
Crowd sourced rare disease website: https://www.patientslikeme.com/
Why healthcare doesn't screen healthy patients: https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158...
We don't know the mechanism of action for Tylenol (acetaminophen / paracetamol): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21054...
US Healthcare spending as percent of GDP: https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statisti...
Links to 1980s China Diet Study:
https://www.cornell.edu/video/playlis...
http://web.archive.org/web/2009022322...
https://nutritionstudies.org/the-chin...
Xapiens at MIT
The Xapiens Podcast, hosted by two MIT Nuclear Physics PhD students, explores the bleeding edge ideas spanning biology, physics, chemistry, and computer science that mark our road to the future. Hear from experts in the field about the fundamental particles that make up the universe, revolutionary interfaces to the brain, and new technology that can change the way we interact with our futures. Listen to visionaries and Nobel prize winners, see what their hopes for the future look like, and how you can be a part of it.
