099 - The Half Life of Facts

You Are Not So Smart

Science, Psychology, Brain, Business, Mental Health, Culture, Neuroscience, Mind, Health

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🗓️ 10 April 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In medical school they tell you half of what you …

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0:00.0	Oh, yeah.
0:01.0	Oh, and uh.
0:02.0	Oh.
0:04.0	Oh,
0:05.0	H. H.
0:07.0	H.
0:08.0	down and through the middle of the party,
0:09.0	and the middle of the party,
0:10.0	and the day.
0:11.0	Yeah, we're cool, we up my head, they were quiet. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast, episode 99. Oh, oh, oh, he's a retired dentist. He is currently 99 years old and so back in dental school which I guess was in the
0:57.4	30s I believe he he learned he learned the wrong number of human chromosomes
1:04.9	This is complexity scientist Sam Arbusman
1:08.5	My name is Sam Arbusman and I'm a scientist and residence at Lux Capital, a venture capital firm.
1:15.6	Sam's current work involves connecting startups with scientists who they might not know could
1:21.2	help them advance the goals of their fledgling companies.
1:24.0	And so really my whole job is really just like this kind of import-export business of
1:29.2	knowledge which is pretty cool.
1:31.0	Sam's background is in computational biology,
1:35.0	and he earned his doctorate studying how to create mathematical models
1:38.0	that could help scientists better understand
1:40.0	how complex systems interact,
1:42.0	things like networks and cells and stuff like that.
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