

#225 Geoffrey West - Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies
Dec 20, 2020
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Introduction
00:00 • 3min
Scale, Your Dad Was a Gambler
03:00 • 3min
I've Never Come to Terms With Being Risk-Averse
06:04 • 3min
The Mystery of the Unconscious
09:01 • 4min
What Is Consciousness?
13:07 • 2min
Olympic Rowing
15:17 • 4min
How to Be Disciplined When You're Not a Workaholic
19:44 • 5min
The Reward System in Business and Corporate America
24:34 • 5min
What Are the Essential Features of Aging?
29:47 • 4min
Do You Have to Keep a Notebook?
33:39 • 3min
The Challenges of Collaborations in Physics
36:19 • 4min
Bringing Mathematical Derivations Into English
40:08 • 5min
Scaling Scale of the Universe
45:10 • 2min
What's the Scale of Life in 100 Years?
47:20 • 5min
The Scaling Laws of Life on the Planet
52:02 • 4min
How Does Growth Determine?
56:03 • 2min
The Scaling Law for Sleep
58:11 • 4min
The Scaling Law for Sleep
01:02:14 • 2min
The Same Scaling Laws Apply to Trees
01:04:35 • 3min
The Scaled Mammal
01:07:10 • 3min
The Scaling Laws of Cities
01:10:22 • 3min
The Economy of Scale
01:13:47 • 3min
The City Is the Machine That Facilitates and Enhances That
01:16:23 • 2min
Is It Possible to Derive the 1.15?
01:18:30 • 3min
The Role of Social Networks in the Evolution of Life
01:21:35 • 3min
The Economy of Scale Is the Thing That Leads to the Stability of the System
01:24:50 • 3min
How to Get Out of a Finite Time Singularity
01:27:41 • 4min
You Know You Can't Sustain Expansive Growth
01:31:24 • 4min