Economics and Game Theory
Sunday 20th May, 5pm GMT
With Andy having fled the country, Will is joined by Trevor Wood to talk about Nash equilibria, reputation-based currency, and the 16th-century tulip bubble. (They will try to avoid discussing Diplomacy too much.)
You may remember Trevor from his Season 2 appearance on mathematics and mathematicians.
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Hex game by Dvortygirl
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About the Show
On Sundays at 5pm UTC on Cam FM (97.2FM in Cambridge, and streaming online), Dr Andy Holding and Will “Jefferson” Thompson, Esq. discuss the science of fiction with a range of guest experts (and tenuously-related music), often with hilarious results. Expect anything from time travel to advice on how to survive the impending zombie apocalypse!
Elsewhere on the Web
- Other ThinkOutreach projects
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Here Comes The Science Bit…
Sunday 13th May, 5pm GMT
The worst offenders might be shampoo adverts, but egregious pseudo-science is not exactly rare in fiction. Joined by The Science Of Fiction regular Djuke Veldhuis, we take a look at what gets scribbled in beside the bits in the script marked “technobabble”.
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Détail de "Blah, blah, blah" du studio Louise Campbell (Maison du Danemark) by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra