I can even take this eclipse shape, which looks like an eclipse when it's close to the ground, but I pull it again and it's always a circle. Gregor , what are you seeing brother?Wait, let me switch the glasses.
- How could you not be a two-boxer? Gregor has this really funny way of thinking about things, but I make my decision based off something else, something a little more rationalbecause I believe that whatever I do now can't influence and change the past.
She has made significant contributions in the space of autonomous cars, drone swarm robotics, AI, et cetera. Gregory Mone, her co-author, is an award-winning science writer and a four-time "New York Times" bestselling author. With a knack for making complex topics engaging and accessible, he has written for some of the most prestigious publications in the space, like "National Geographic," "Scientific
We wanted to be very natural. Gregory can attest to that.
I've seen it. I've done it. Gregory? Hey there. Thanks for being here.
So it's characterized by taking action. Gregory Bateson, in my opinion, was one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.
our second guest, Gregory Benford. Gregory Benford was born in 1941 in Mobile, Alabama-- Mobile. Mobile. Mobile, Alabama. It's not mobile, it stays there.
won both the Nebula award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Gregory has been nominated for four Hugo awards and 12 Nebula awards. In addition to "Timescape," he and Gordon Eklund won the Nebula for the novelette "If the Stars are Gods."
In addition to "Timescape," he and Gordon Eklund won the Nebula for the novelette "If the Stars are Gods." Gregory has created and written about the first computer virus in the late '60s. We can come back to this.
He made a contribution in understanding and addressing global warming and related chemical changes in ocean water. Gregory also serves on the board of directors of the student committee of the Mars Society, which is dear to my heart. And Gregory has received a Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, followed by a Master of Science and Doctorate
But that won you the Nebula Award. Gregory's also a professor of physics at UC Irvine. And he is also now a biotech entrepreneur, having worked to found a company called Genescient, whose goal is to
Clap. Gregory Mone: Thank you, everyone. Thanks, Kate, for having me. I was told that part of the reason behind this authors series is to kind of bring in creative thinkers and stuff like that to stimulate you guys in- to think differently about problems and things like that.
So, here we go, without further ado, "The Science of Santa". Gregory: So, the sad truth and the reason I wrote this book is that belief in Santa Claus is slipping. Umm, this might come as a shock to some of you in this room who I assume are all believers, uh, but it's happening right now all across the country.
If you look at Christmas Eve alone, say he visits 200 million homes, three cookies alone, that's 600 million cookies. Gregory: -- and, you know, I've run the numbers and I'm not sure exactly how it would work out but it's roughly 200 million times the recommended daily allowance of fat.
recommended daily allowance of fat. Gregory: Umm, and this is all in a single night. Now, normally this sort of eating behavior leads to obesity, heart disease, and in all likelihood an early death and, you know, according
That's not really how it works. Gregory: In reality, Santa's never fallen off one of these rooftops -- the snow-covered rooftops, never made a mistake, he's never tripped a security alarm, never gotten a smart phone-captured clip posted up to YouTube -- unless, of course, maybe that has
happened and you guys have an agreement with him to keep it down. Gregory: I don't know. I'm just saying. Umm, I know that he does have a Gmail account because I got an e-mail
What? You know, huh? Gregory: But eventually quite of few of them did, uh -- did, uh, get the idea and they were very interested. Umm, and -- anyway, so what I'd like to do today is dispel a few of the myths and answer some of the big questions
flicking the little worm hole switch which is hidden next to the chimney. Gregory: Umm, it also explains a little bit why, umm, chimney repair people come around your house so often and why it's so often -- so often so expensive to fix chimneys is because, umm, Santa's elves are out there maintaining these worm holes so they like to pop in and do
he actually -- Santa can set it up so that his lieutenants can arrive in one house before they left the last one. Gregory: Umm ... So what this does is it cuts the time per home to about 30 seconds 'cause he doesn't have that commute time anymore. Umm, and what ends up happening is the total, you know, amount of time needed for Santa to get presents -- Santa and his operatives to get
And that's one of the reasons he pays these guys so much 'cause there is a lot of risk involved. Gregory: Umm, the other issue with this time traveling technique is it -- it runs into a little bit of causality problems where if a little girl sneaks out at -- at midnight, goes and looks under the tree, and sees that Santa isn't there, he can't then travel back in
tells people they shouldn't go and peek out under the tree. Gregory: Umm, now, the O.C. himself doesn't use the worm holes for this reason because he doesn't wanna get involved in such a risky situation. He's got a warp-drive sleigh.
'Cause on occasion, Santa does like to be seen by certain kids to sort of keep the belief in them about -- alive. And when this happens, he's totally happy Gregory: Sure. Oh, right.
'Cause on occasion, Santa does like to be seen by certain kids to sort of keep the belief in them about -- alive. And when this happens, he's totally happy Gregory: I'm -- I'm a little bit -- that is the one thing I'm a little bit concerned about with this book coming out where, I don't
'Cause on occasion, Santa does like to be seen by certain kids to sort of keep the belief in them about -- alive. And when this happens, he's totally happy Gregory: Well, we're looking into sort of a certification process.
'Cause on occasion, Santa does like to be seen by certain kids to sort of keep the belief in them about -- alive. And when this happens, he's totally happy Gregory: You know? You've got all this other junk out there.
'Cause on occasion, Santa does like to be seen by certain kids to sort of keep the belief in them about -- alive. And when this happens, he's totally happy Gregory: I -- you know, it's funny. I think, umm, that would be a sort of a half truth because, umm, while Santa Claus himself is not an
'Cause on occasion, Santa does like to be seen by certain kids to sort of keep the belief in them about -- alive. And when this happens, he's totally happy Gregory: Sure. Great. Gregory: Thanks everyone!
the Great, the pope who had sent the missionaries to England in round about 600. Whereas Gregory the Great had seen the "Pastoral Care" as a handbook for bishops, really Alfred sees the "Pastoral Care" translated into English as a handbook for kings about how to operate and how to be a good king.
So it's characterized by taking action. And Gregory Bateson saw double bind as the inevitable result of fully participating in life.
Yeah, there was that. And Gregory Hines goes the other way, to Russia.
Gregory also serves on the board of directors of the student committee of the Mars Society, which is dear to my heart. And Gregory has received a Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, followed by a Master of Science and Doctorate from the University of California, San Diego.
Umm, you know, yes, he has a warp-drive sleigh, that's pretty obvious -- Gregory: -- umm -- Gregory: He uses all sorts of flying robots to capture video surveillance data. Umm, ornaments are not just ornaments.
I’m Emilia. Oh, so nice to meet you. This is Gregor . Nice to meet you, thanks for having us. So, can I ask you?
This is called RSA encryption, and it means that if I know the certificate is valid, then I accept the connection. And by authenticating Gregor , it foils our man in the middle, Casper Devious. All right. Tatu Ylonen combined these two steps, securing the channel and authenticating the user, into a protocol for remote logins between machines.
These are the people responsible for some of your favorite videos. I worked with Gregor to make the exposes on Teflon, and PFAS, and Monsanto, with Casper to make entropy, the principle of lease action series, and black holes, white holes, and wormhole.
And you can see this with lots of different materials. Veritasium producer Gregor set up a version of this experiment, minus the frog, to test it out. - I have zinc, magnesium, and iron here.
My guest today is Gregory Berns. He's a neuroscientist at Emory University and the author of a fascinating new book
And the thing that Gregorian creatures have is that in addition to internal models, they have mind tools like language and mathematics.
So the Gregorian creatures really have the kind of social intelligence that we probably-- perhaps not uniquely,
And the Gregorian calendar is an interesting one.
Russia adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1918.
We talked about the Gregorian date here.
An Alex Gregory joke from the '90s in which one woman is saying to another, I started my vegetarianism for health concerns, then
It's a lot of thoughts about it. You can go to GregoryBenford.com and go down in the blog-- or somewhere on that site, among the articles, I think, and it's got his essay. OK, time's up. Next slide.
'Cause on occasion, Santa does like to be seen by certain kids to sort of keep the belief in them about -- alive. And when this happens, he's totally happy What you just described -- Gregory: -- as far as information collection is not something new.
and also our linguist Gregory Anderson so they're here
I started to feel a bit like Gregor Samsa from Kafka's "The Metamorphosis." You know, the book about the guy who turns into this beetle creature.
And I did know a couple of Gregor 's friends, and I knew where they lived.
this guy's name is Gregor uh and again