I taught a course at yale lasamester on global catastrophes with bill nordhouse, the famous economist who won the nobel prize for his work on climate change. And you can think of the the coronovirs pendemic as a kind of accelerated version of the challenge we are going to face with climate change. We're goin to have more pandemics in the future. There's some scientific evidence that the interpendemic interval is shortening. So we could get another one in five years, and ten years, and 20 years and 30 years. We don't know when it's going to happen, but it's clear to me that we're going to
How do diseases and information spread? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice discover the history of pandemics, how social networks impact spread, and the hidden math behind it with sociologist Nicholas Christakis.
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