#AcademicRunPlaylist - 3/12/25

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Ben Waber
March 12, 2025

A selfie of me on a boardwalk next to a canal cutting through old mill buildings on the right and new apartment buildings on the left, with a metal footbridge going between them in the distance. A railroad track is in front of the apartment buildings. It's a sunny day, and I'm a bald, middle-aged, white man with a red beard flecked with white. I'm wearing black sunglasses and a yellow and blue 125th Boston Marathon adidias running shirt.

I was able to go for a good run around Philly today, and luckily I had lots of talks queued up for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was an engaging discussion with Ali Preston on schemas in minds and brains on the Brain Inspired podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRilgGygGEE

Next was an intriguing talk by Cecilia Rikap on the different actors vying for control of the AI space at the Oxford Internet Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE4rmcEXjkE

Next was an interesting talk by Kayode Olaleye on code-switched translations African languages at Data Science for Social Impact https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11qCDY_aSag

Next was a mind-bending talk by Michael Dickey on ridiculous applications of gallium at the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems - NICO. This is one you have to watch the video of - liquid metal circuits at room temperature, 3D printing metal w/no heating, crazy applications of "printed" metal oxide, and moving robots with voltage-manipulated gallium surface tension?!?! Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYKIeQWh_OQ

Next was an important talk by Rebecca Kahn on the ethics of managing human remains museum collections online at the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRGUpJSJceU

Last was a thought-provoking panel on the natural law origins of public and private law at Stanford Law School with Richard Epstein and Jud Campbell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge9tAzvP4SU