The Decentralised LBRY of the World with Jeremy Kauffman
Jeremy is CEO of LBRY, a blockchain based protocol which is aiming to do what bitcoin has done for money for publishing. In that, rather than relying upon third parties to aggregate and distribute content, library has built a technology that allows this to be done peer to peer without fear of censorship or demonetisation. He's also CEO of Odyssee, a youtube-like video streaming platform built on LBRY technology.
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Paul is a celebrated British scientist and author who has focused on theoretical physics, cosmology, and astrobiology.
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The constructal law is a law of physics that predicts natural design and its evolution in biology, geophysics, climate change, technology, social organization, evolutionary design and development, wealth and sustainability.
The law states that for a finite-size flow system to persist in time (to live) it must evolve such that it provides greater and greater access to the currents that flow through it.
If the second law of thermodynamics is seen as the irreversibility of energy flow, the constructal law describes just how these flows organise across time. The constructal says that as a flow system continues to evolve, its design will change to increase the rate of whatever is flowing through it.
The applications of the law are vast, as I'm sure you can imagine. It explains why rivers form the way that they do, why the vasculature of our bodies and cities manifest in the branching ways that they do, why hierarchies manifest spontaneously, why birds fly in formation, even why wealth inequality arises. It's the physics principle that underpins economies of scale and the Pareto distribution (also known as the Matthew principle), the observation the majority of wealth is normally found within the hands of a few.
If you're like me, you're might be wondering why you've never heard of it before. It might be because it's a relatively new development, but who knows. Regardless, I'm thrilled to have come across it and to share it with you all.
My interest in it, apart from it being something foundational to the world we live in, is what it may mean for how we structure our societies and our moral and ethical viewpoints. Harnessing the flows of energy are foundational to life, from the smallest of organisms all the way to our technologically enhanced species. We do this better than any of the rest. It's our unique capacity to extract energy from the world and put it to use that's responsible for why we've progressed so far, from apes playing with fire to people who can split atoms and channel the awesome power locked within.
As our interconnected global society continues to emerge, we must understand the natural laws that shape our world so that we're better equipped to build societies that work not just for those that live within them, but for the planet as a whole.
Joining me to explore this topic is distinguished Professor Adrian Bejan from Duke University, the man who formulated the constructal law in 1995.
To call Adrian prolific would be an understatement. He's authored more than 650 peer-reviewed articles as well as 30 books, one of which being the most widely-used engineering textbook in the English language. His books The Physics of Life, Design in Nature, and his most recent book*, Freedom and Evolution,* were the resources I used to base our co
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Instead of talking about developments in science, tech and society, I’m chatting to a man called Okekenta Gosife about the ongoing subjugation and suffering of his people in Nigeria. He would not call himself Nigerian, however.
Gosife is from Biafra, a secessionist state in eastern Nigeria that existed in the late 1960s. Though is no longer exists, there are millions of people who identify as Biafrans today and are treated as second class citizens in Nigeria.
I wanted to share Gosife and Biafra’s story to get you to ponder some things like:
– What is a national identity?
– When should the global community intervene in the affairs of a country?
– Is sovereignty an outdated concept in our globalised world?
Show notes can be found at: http://talkoftoday.com/the-plight-of-the-biafran-people-with-okekenta-gosife/
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Complete Talk of Today episode with Prof. Jason Potts: https://youtu.be/0auaRpbsZd8
Guest Info: Jason is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at RMIT University and Co-director of the Blockchain Innovation Hub at RMIT in Melbourne Australia. His research focuses on the economics of innovation and new technologies, economic evolution, institutional economics, and complexity economics. He has written 5 books and published over 80 articles on topics including growth theory, creative industries, economics of cities, innovation commons, and most recently on crypto-economics and blockchain.
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This is a clip taken from the interview I did with Tiago Forte on the Talk of Today podcast.
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Today we're talking about climate change and the precarious position we are all in, threatened with the very collapse of our societies and the biosphere upon which they rest, all due to our inaction. Joining me to explore this sobering topic is Earth system scientist Professor Will Steffen.
Will is a climate change expert and researcher at the Australian National University, Canberra. He's held many positions related to guiding our species back onto a sustainble climate trajectory. He was the Executive Director of the Australian National University's Climate Change Institute, he served as a Science Adviser to the Australian Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, he was a founding Climate Councillor of Australia's Climate Council, and has been an author and reviewer of five of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) assessments and special reports between 2000 and 2018.
In our conversation, we cover:
- How bad is the current situation?
- Tipping points
- The difficulty of modelling a system as complex as our climate and thus, the need for a great deal of humiltiy and caution when dealing with climate change
- We talk of the threat social collapse due to climate change
- and why we really need to get our act together by 2030 in order to try and stablise the climate system.
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Watch the full Talk of Today episode with Prof. Paul Davies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsbR6NeWsWA&t=1924s
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Paul is a celebrated British scientist and author who has focused on theoretical physics, cosmology, and astrobiology.
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My guest for this episode is Chris Timmerman from Imperial College. He’s a PhD student who is a part of the team doing the first ever fMRI scan of DMT’s effect on the brain. This is being carried out by the Psychedelic Research Group from Imperial College in London. In our conversation, we discuss:
- Ego dissolution
- DMT and ‘entities’
- Neurobiology of the psychedelics
The show notes can be found at: http://talkoftoday.com/psychedelics-chris-timmerman/
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Chris Timmerman
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher_Timmermann
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