Ingrid Daubechies - The "Godmother of digital image" on the beauty of the world
11/28/23 • 59 min
Ingrid Daubechies is endlessly, irrepressibly, beautifully curious. She is a Belgian physicist and mathematician whose scientific achievements have rippled across society in all directions for the past 35 years. But, more than that, she's a fierce champion of diversity and equality, in math and science, in women's rights, in opportunity. To sit with Ingrid, her math and her life, is to illuminate our world and inspire us to imagine other worlds.
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Show Notes:
- Depression (05:30)
- Krista Tippett On Being Podcast (07:15)
- Arthur Zajonc (10:10)
- Exponential thinking (14:20)
- Applied mathematics (19:00)
- Daubechies wavelet (20:00)
- The life of a researcher (25:00)
- Collaboration (27:00)
- Bell Labs (29:00)
- What is changing in the field of mathematics (32:00)
- Creating a community (34:00)
- Teaching: helping a person grow into the fullness of their imagination (36:00)
- Mathemalchemy (39:00)
- The Bridges Organization (40:00)
- Time to Break Free by Dominique Ehrmann (41:00)
- Mathemalchemy comic book (45:30)
- Bridging ties (47:00)
- Experiences at Burning Man (47:20)
- Pico Iyer (50:30)
- Museum of Mathematics (51:00)
- Flatiron Institute (51:30)
- Lighting Round (54:00)
- Book: The Broken Earth series by NK Jemisin; Digger by Ursula Vernon
- Passion: Social justice
- Heart sing: Temari
- Screwed up: Aspects of parenting
- Find Ingrid online:
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
Logo artwork by Cristina Gonzalez
Music by swelo on all streaming platforms or @swelomusic on social media
Ingrid Daubechies is endlessly, irrepressibly, beautifully curious. She is a Belgian physicist and mathematician whose scientific achievements have rippled across society in all directions for the past 35 years. But, more than that, she's a fierce champion of diversity and equality, in math and science, in women's rights, in opportunity. To sit with Ingrid, her math and her life, is to illuminate our world and inspire us to imagine other worlds.
Origins Podcast Website
Flourishing Commons Newsletter
Show Notes:
- Depression (05:30)
- Krista Tippett On Being Podcast (07:15)
- Arthur Zajonc (10:10)
- Exponential thinking (14:20)
- Applied mathematics (19:00)
- Daubechies wavelet (20:00)
- The life of a researcher (25:00)
- Collaboration (27:00)
- Bell Labs (29:00)
- What is changing in the field of mathematics (32:00)
- Creating a community (34:00)
- Teaching: helping a person grow into the fullness of their imagination (36:00)
- Mathemalchemy (39:00)
- The Bridges Organization (40:00)
- Time to Break Free by Dominique Ehrmann (41:00)
- Mathemalchemy comic book (45:30)
- Bridging ties (47:00)
- Experiences at Burning Man (47:20)
- Pico Iyer (50:30)
- Museum of Mathematics (51:00)
- Flatiron Institute (51:30)
- Lighting Round (54:00)
- Book: The Broken Earth series by NK Jemisin; Digger by Ursula Vernon
- Passion: Social justice
- Heart sing: Temari
- Screwed up: Aspects of parenting
- Find Ingrid online:
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
Logo artwork by Cristina Gonzalez
Music by swelo on all streaming platforms or @swelomusic on social media
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Mark Granovetter - Weak ties, living questions, and the history and future of social science
Mark Granovetter has made and remade our understanding of social networks, social theory, collective action, and economic sociology, making and remaking our world in the process. It would not be hyperbole to say that few living scholars have had the influence of Mark Granovetter.
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Show Notes:
- Attorney for the Damned by John A. Farrell (9:00)
- Interest in world history (10:00)
- A History of the Modern World (11:00)
- Why are there revolutions? (12:00)
- Philosophy of science (13:00)
- Carl Hempel (13:00)
- What does it mean to explain in science?
- Talcott Parsons (15:00)
- BF Skinner (16:00)
- A philosophy of asking questions (17:00)
- "The function of general laws in history" (18:00)
- Universal peeking out from the particular (20:00)
- Max Weber (23:00)
- Norbert Weiner (30:00)
- The Strength of Weak Ties (30:00)
- The Great Fear of 1789 by Georges Lefebvre (31:00)
- Harrison White (33:00)
- Anatol Rapoport (37:00)
- Stanley Milgram (40:30)
- Danielle Allen (43:00)
- Threshold analysis (45:00)
- Lightning round (54:00)
- Book: Economy and Society by Max Weber
- Passion: anywhere asking questions that expand you
- Heart Sing: working on new book and teaching
- Screwed up: life balance
- Find Mark online:
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
Logo artwork by Cristina Gonzalez
Music by swelo on all streaming platforms or @swelomusic on social media
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James Evans - Cultural observatories, knowledge communities, and a life resplendent with ideas
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Show Notes:
- cultural and knowledge observatories (05:30)
- Mark Granovetter (09:15)
- Steve Barley (10:30)
- Woody Powell (10:30)
- Chris Summerfield (11:00)
- Some papers mentioned:
- Abduction (21:30)
- epistemic space (22:40)
- Claude Lévi-Strauss (24:20)
- Clifford Geertz (24:30)
- "Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations" Obermeyer et al. (30:00)
- Scarcity Sendhil Mullainathan (35:00)
- The Knowledge Lab (36:00)
- "Quantifying the dynamics of failure across science, startups and security" Yin et al. (45:00)
- Charles Sanders Peirce (51:00)
- Pirkei Avot (56:00)
- Alison Gopnik on explore-exploit (01:02:30)
- Elise Boulding "the 200-year present" (01:03:00)
- Jo Guldi (01:06:00)
- Lightning Round (01:06:30):
- Book: The Enigma of Reason
- Passion: physical exploration and spiritual calling
- Heart sing: 'social science fiction' and Hod Lipson
- Screwed up: management style at times
- James online:
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
Logo artwork Cristina Gonzalez
Music by swelo
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