All Videos — March 29, 2011

A New Way of Seeing Nature

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

What are fractals? The man who invented the term—and the geometry to go along with it—explains how complex natural shapes such as mountains and coastlines can be represented mathematically.

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

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Thinking

The perpetual quest for a truth machine

Why human attempts to mechanize logic keep breaking down.

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Business

The trillion-dollar AI race to create “Digital God”

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Starts With A Bang

Official verdict: JWST’s early galaxies didn’t break cosmology

The “little red dots” were touted as being too massive, too early, for cosmology to explain. With new knowledge, everything adds up.

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The Well

Win back your agency from algorithms with data literacy

Algorithms dictate a lot more than your social media feeds. Here’s how to win back your agency.

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The Long Game

The golden strategy of stacked “marginal gains”

For extraordinary long-term success in business we can look to insights from British Olympic cycling, Roger Federer and neuroeconomics.

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Surprising Science

The Universe Is a Symphony of Vibrating Strings

The co-founder of Field String Theory explains why the universe has 11 dimensions rather than any other number.