The purpose of this section is to show a collection of video-essays that I consider could be useful and interesting to anybody. They don’t follow any particular order. Although I think there are strong links between various videos and together they display a stronger message, each one of them can be perfectly watched independently.
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Gabriel Zucman on wealth inequality
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Psychology of irrational decision making
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Thomas Piketty on wealth and income inequality
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How income taxes work
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Some insight on globalization
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Esther Duflo on fighting poverty
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History of exchange: The silk road
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Hotelling, competition that doesn’t lead to a social optimum
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Richard Wilkinson on inequality and its interesting correlations
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Basics: The value of a dollar
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Joseph Stiglitz, some facts and the ethics of institutions
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Cesar Hidalgo on economic complexity
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Paul Krugman on the economics of happiness and unemployment
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Robert Solow and Paul Krugman commenting Anthony Atkinson’s book
(long)
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Why poor places are more diverse
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The hidden cost of meat
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Exponential growth and epidemics
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Simulating epidemics
[Bonus: how soap kills the coronavirus]
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Bayes theorem, intuitively
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Randomness is not what we think
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4,669 and population’s growth
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Euler’s Number
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Collatz conjecture
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Euler-Mascheroni constant
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Simpson’s paradox: How statistics can be missleading
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The Magic of triangles
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Benoit Mandelbrot on measuring roughness
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More on Fractacls and realist mathematics
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Mathematics of Crime and Terrorism
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The opposite of infinity, pi and derivatives
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What’s wrong on how we teach Mathematics
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Pascal’s triangle
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Zero is a special number
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Cedric Villiani on Nash (long)
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Fibonacci and the golden ratio
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Lucas numbers
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The map of Mathematics
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Intuition behind irrational numbers
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History of numerical systems
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Gravitational waves!
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A really brief History of Everything
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The map of Physics
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Entropy and time
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Black holes
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On the very nature of speed and acceleration </>
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The orbit of satelites and Lagrange points
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How do we know the composition of other planet’s atmospheres?
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Neutron stars
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The Standard model
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What is matter?
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Einstein: Light as a particle
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When you look at the night sky
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Putting the size of an atom in perspective
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What is the Higgs Boson?
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The Higgs Field
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Looking for the Higgs Boson
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Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
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Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle (2)
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What is light?
- Big time perspective
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How evolution works
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Human origins
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Why I live in year 12.017
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How to picture Earth’s history
- Who am I?
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Utilitarianism
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L’utilitarisme classique (French)
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John Stuart Mill: De la liberté (French)
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John Rawls (French)
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Amartya Sen: Repenser l’inégalité (French)
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Anarchisme social: Proudhon, Bakounine et Kropotkine (French)
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Anarchisme individualiste: Stirner, Tucker, Spooner (French)
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L’ideologie chez Marx (French)
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Le néoliberalisme (French)
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Michel Foucault: Surveiller et punir (French)
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Claude Lévi-Strauss: Race et histoire (French)
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Individuality
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Did we invent or discover Mathematics?
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What is information?
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Ethics: the trolley problem
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Basics: Popper’s theory of scientific knowledge
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Alexander von Humboldt
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Who do flowers seduce?
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How plate tectonics actually work
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Should we save pandas?
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Why do deserts exist?
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Richard Dawkins on evolutionary stable trategies
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The secret life of plants
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Poor places are more diverse
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The animal kingdom, or the realm of the unfaithful
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Why sand is all the same
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Biggest living organism
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Draining the deep seas
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Cleopatra
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French revolution
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Ghengis Khan
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History of marriage
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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The Encyclopedia
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Christopher Colombus