Chapter titles and subtitles for lecture of ‘Frontiers of Science’.
Title | Subtitle |
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A Sense of Scale | Are humans big or small? The limits of perception: the scale of space. Beyond direct experience. The limits of perception: scales of time. |
Discoveries on the Back of an Envelope | Qualitative quantitative reasoning. De-sensationalizing the news. Questioning authority. The famous fermi problem. Estimating the unknowable. Sanity checks. Providing context. Perspective. Concluding thoughts. |
Insights in Lines and Dots | Types of graphs. Limits and uncertainties. Tricks and misrepresentations. So how many red quasars are there anyway? |
Expecting the Improbable | Probability defined. Rare things happen all the time. A mathematical definition of ”luck” |
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics | How not to lie with statistics. Accuracy and precision. Error and uncertainty. |
Correlation, Causation ... Confusion and Clarity | Correlation defined. Correlation applied. |
What is Science? | Truth and falsifiability. Data. Experiments and observations. Models. Theories. Assumptions. The self-correcting nature of science |