I spoke this week "at" Oxford's Mathematical Institute; a great honour in the same week that one of Oxford's finest, Roger Penrose, won a Nobel prize. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/0ZxV1WhqE90?t=231 My NEW book How To Make The World Add Up is OUT NOW! Details, and to order...
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How many buses to the dinosaur?
I had fun with Matt Parker - the world's best Stand Up Mathematician - making this video about bad number analogies, and how to use "landmark numbers" to make the world add up. To pre-order signed copies of “How To Make The World...
Do storks deliver babies?
I spoke to Brady Haran of Numberphile about one of the most famous stories in statistics - and there's an unpleasant twist, I'm afraid. To pre-order signed copies of "How To Make The World Add Up", do please head over to...
My TED talk on the power of slow-motion multitasking
Newsnight film featuring Brian Eno
I made a short film for BBC's Newsnight. Lots of fun: (If the embed function doesn't work you can try this.)
How to give a TED talk in a hurry
My TED talk on how distractions make us more creative
How to See into the Future
The secrets of superforecasting
Newsnight videos aren't embeddable, it seems, but you may enjoy this four minutes of fun, in which I discuss the latest research on how to see into the future. I discuss the research in much more detail in my FT article, "How to See Into the Future" - no paywall, so...