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Rationally Speaking #83 - Samuel Arbesman On The Half-Life of Facts
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:45:05
Publish Date: 2013-03-25 02:00:25
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How long does it take for one-half of everything we know about a subject to be proven wrong? Depends on the subject. 45 years, for example, if that subject is cirrhosis or hepatitis. Samuel Arbesman, applied mathematician and author of "The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an expiration Date", joins Julia and Massimo to talk about the hidden patterns underlying how fast our understanding of science is changing.
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