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Randall Munroe answers your wildest questions

The TED Interview

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Are You Using the Tools of Science and Math to Answer Important Questions?

I like using these questions that everyone has that there's no clear answer to out there. They illustrate how we can use the tools of science and math to to actually get answers, not just have to argue with our friends forever. I think one thing that stands out is it can be fun when a question that sounds kind of straightforward and mundane ends up having like these catastrophic consequences.

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