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History of Science & Technology Q&A (94 videos)

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History of Science & Technology Q&A:
History of Science and Technology Q&A (July 23, 2025) »

1 hour 26 minutes

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Historical scientific problems and modern computation Historical contingency in technology Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) Visits to scientific historical sites History of museums and ancient artifacts Virtual particles in physics Einstein's unified field theory Scientists as movie subjects View Less »
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History of Science & Technology Q&A:
History of Science and Technology Q&A (July 2, 2025) »

1 hour 42 minutes

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Alternate histories and missed scientific paths How science is remembered and talked about Scientific breakthroughs How science gets done and who gets involved View Less »
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History of Science & Technology Q&A:
History of Science and Technology Q&A (June 4, 2025) »

1 hour 27 minutes

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AI milestones and conceptual shifts Encounters with physicists Attributes and personalities of influential thinkers Naming conventions in science and technology View Less »
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History of Science & Technology Q&A:
History of Science and Technology Q&A (May 7, 2025) »

1 hour 25 minutes

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Studying the history of science Contradictions and accuracy in historical research History of memory research Planck's constant View Less »
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History of Science & Technology Q&A:
History of Science and Technology Q&A (April 23, 2025) »

1 hour 28 minutes

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Do you know anything about the history of vaccines? When was the first vaccine developed and for what? Isn't some important part of how vaccines were discovered completely lost to history? When was the crucial importance of epigenetics discovered or realized? What have been your interactions with early-day or notable biotech people & companies (Genentech etc.) and interplay between your own projects/techs and their development if any? I had no idea Alan Turing was the progenitor of morphogenesis! View Less »
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History of Science & Technology Q&A:
History of Science and Technology Q&A (April 2, 2025) »

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Is there much history on scientists (well known or not) starting companies? If Leibniz was around today, where do you think he would be working, what would he be doing if he was not in academia? Any interesting suggestions for history to research? What's the history of walking meetings? Were there notable practitioners before you? Was the first GUI+mouse+keyboard predictable beforehand or was it a surprise at the time? View Less »
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