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Stephen Wolfram Q&A, For Kids (and others) [March 5, 2021]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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Is There a Mechanistic Thing Going On?

The body surface area formula is often used for various kinds of drug dosing. It doesn't make nsense but yet, as empirical formulas, they work quite well. There are also cases in places like biology where an incredibly elaborate way to make something is probly going to have more ways to fail and probably isn't the way the thing gets made.

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