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Rationally Speaking #83 - Samuel Arbesman On The Half-Life of Facts
Rationally Speaking #83 - Samuel Arbesman On The Half-Life of Facts
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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
Mar 24, 2013
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Podcast episode
Description
How long does it take for one-half of everything we know about a subject to be proven wrong? Depends on the subject. 45 years, for example, if that subject is cirrhosis or hepatitis. Samuel Arbesman, applied mathematician and author of "The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an expiration Date", joins Julia and Massimo to talk about the hidden patterns underlying how fast our understanding of science is changing.
Released:
Mar 24, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode
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