My Chat with Geophysicist Dr. Dorian Abbot, Cancelled at MIT for Wrongthink (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_339)

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🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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0:00.0	Hi everybody on the heels of having yesterday one of the original honey
0:06.1	badgers in academia Janus Fiamingo who also hails from Canada today I have a new
0:11.1	entrant into the world of Honey Badgerhood.
0:14.5	Today we have Professor Dorian Abbott,
0:16.4	who is a geophysicist at the University of Chicago.
0:21.0	Welcome, Dorian, how you're doing? Great, thanks.
0:23.0	And actually, my grandparents lived on an island in Nova Scotia when I was a kid.
0:28.0	So you could claim some Canadian heritage.
0:31.0	And some of my ancestors were from Nova Scotia.
0:34.0	Ah, because I often get one of the frequent questions I get whenever I appear on a show is, is there
0:41.2	something in the Canadian water and usually it refers to the fact that Jordan
0:45.2	Peterson and God's out are Canadian and I say I don't I think it's just the the random
0:50.4	serendipity of life that caused it but but maybe who knows maybe there is something in the Canadian ethos that makes us because we're supposed to be the nice quiet guys
0:58.2	But then again I am from the Middle East so I don't think you can you can take me out of the Middle East but you can't take the Middle East out of me as they say
1:05.6	Okay, so Dorian will talk eventually about what happened with you at MIT, but I thought we can maybe first get into some nerd stuff.
1:15.0	Your background is in mathematics, your undergrad, and
1:21.0	master's and PhD were in mathematics, correct?
1:24.0	Well, actually, undergrad was in physics, and
1:28.1	masters and PhD were in applied mathematics, so the real mathematicians wouldn't include me in their club.
1:34.0	It's interesting that you say this because I did an undergrad in mathematics and
1:39.3	computer science and in a few cases we would have some courses where we had the engineering students with us.
1:47.0	And as happens everywhere in life where people create these annoying hierarchies, the math students would kind of look at the
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