Earth

The most surprising thing that I heard in the Professor Firestein video was the discussion of our perception of time before the era of clocks. How did humans navigate their material world differently

I would have loved to hear the experts discuss more exactly how they compute uncertainties for their predictions of earthquakes, and how they take into account the possibility that their models may be

In the interview with Meade and Murphy , Professor Goodman mentions that it is difficult for the public to understand how prediction systems work. Meade mentions how difficult it is to convince the p

In watching the interview with Susan Murphy & Brendan Meade , I noticed how both interviewees discuss how difficult it is to make predictions that can pinpoint the anticipation of a health event like

When watching Meade and Murphy's interview , one of the things that stood out to me was that Meade said that we do not have adequate algorithms or essentially rules to predict earthquakes accurately.

I never realized that earthquake preparation could be so difficult, maybe because I never knew you had to replace a bicycle helmet after crashing! If earthquake-proof buildings are not meant to be reu

I was surprised that models of the Earth below the surface are still so difficult to make. While we obviously can't see structures below the ground with the naked eye or traditional cameras, I find it

After watching the interview with Brendan Meade and Susan Murphy and learning about how difficult it is to predict earthquakes, I was left wondering more about how prediction in the earth science fi

Being a CS major, I would have loved to have heard more about the technical details of the deep learning that Meade was doing to predict earthquakes. There was a discussion of how little data there is

I found it really interesting that Meade said we should be preparing to respond to earthquakes instead of preparing for them. To me, that was really counterintuitive, but on further thought, it starte

Picture: Cartoon of Washington saying "I cannot tell a lie". Young George Washington's truthfulness was worth more than 1,000 trees... but how much of what we perceive to be true is measured by its ac

I enjoyed watching the interview with Susan Murphy & Brendan Meade because of the expanse of knowledge and parallelisms covered in this conversation which is told by the interview title "Predicting

The conversation of earthquake modeling reminded me in many ways of our discussion for modeling alien life and extraterrestrial contact. Meade comments on the complexity of the polycrystalline aggrega

Watching an informative interview with Brendan Meade and Susan Murphy , several questions came to mind. First, I would be interested in asking Professor Meade to talk more about the Sendai "semi-pred

Something I found to be extremely interesting during the interview with Brendan Meade and Susan Murphy was their mention of short term behavior vs. long term consequence and the similarity of that c

One thing that shocked me was how accurately scientists were able to measure the movement of tectonic plates, down to distances on the order of tenths of a millimeter. The part that's even more impres

While watching the interview with Brendan Meade and Susan Murphy , I was surprised to learn how little information earth scientists have to predict earthquakes with. This was really shown when Profes

Painting, "Storm below Mount Fuji" by Hokusai, from the Met. As a small, seismically active archipelago, more accurate earthquake predictions are crucial in Japan. It was fascinating to hear Brendan M

This is my question based on the Susan Murphy and Brendan Meade interview . I would like to dig deeper into the modeling work that Brendan Meade was discussing during the section from 2:47-7:33. This

I found Professor Goodman's discussion with Brendan Meade and Susan Murphy incredibly compelling. In particular, I was fascinated by Meade's account of his team's "semi" prediction of the 2011 Sendai