Re: [FRIAM] Experts explaining stuff at multiple levels of difficulty

Yeah, except there's a well-read interested-in-all-things-scientific 14 year old, and then there's my wife. I know who I'd rather explain things to :). Then there's my friend's book "Debunking Economics". I found it rather heavy going, because I had to figure out from the text what the actual

Re: [FRIAM] Experts explaining stuff at multiple levels of difficulty

Eric, We are planning a ferocious argument at FRIAM on this video (see below), and I am wondering what a believer in “embodied consciousness” might have to say about it, going in. It’s only about six minutes long, so perhaps you could take a moment from your drywall. Nick

Re: [FRIAM] Experts explaining stuff at multiple levels of difficulty

Yeah, that's the one that got me grinding my teeth too… On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 9:40 PM Nick Thompson wrote: > Robert, > > > > These are great. Let’s have a huge effing fight on Friday about this one: > > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opqIa5Jiwuw=0s=PLibNZv5Zd0dyCoQ6f4pdXUFnpAIlKgm3N=2

Re: [FRIAM] Experts explaining stuff at multiple levels of difficulty

Robert, These are great. Let’s have a huge effing fight on Friday about this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opqIa5Jiwuw =0s=PLibNZv5Zd0dyCoQ6f4pdXUFnpAIlKgm3N=2 Bruce is going to love it and I

Re: [FRIAM] Experts explaining stuff at multiple levels of difficulty

^^ It's awesome! A friend turned me on to it. Their is urban myth that some scientists got into a heated argument about something, in a pub or lecture hall. At some point one of the bellowed that if you can't explain it so as a kid can understand it you're doing it wrong! Steven Hawking seemed to

[FRIAM] Experts explaining stuff at multiple levels of difficulty

Following on from a conversation I had with Nick last week. Here are some videos from WIRED in which experts explain their field at (widely) varying levels of difficulty. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLibNZv5Zd0dyCoQ6f4pdXUFnpAIlKgm3N —R