Alan Alda: The Art of Communicating Science

[@bch9124]

I was born in 1972, the same year M.A.S.H. began its run. I grew up in a household with a father who was a Vietnam Veteran and used the humor and poignancy of M.A.S.H. as his way to process his sacrifice to a thankless war. Alan Alda was a staple in my life from day one and I am forever thankful for his contribution to my and my family's well-being. God bless you and may your thirst for science keep bringing you happiness and joy.

[@mrsdahmer8]

Yep, staple in my life too. I was born in 1975 (I write this on my 50th birthday 😛) I grew up on MASH watching with both my mom and my grandma who I spent a great deal of time with growing up, it's always been my grandmas favorite show and mine as well. (The lyrics to the theme song also REALLY, REALLY resonate with me) and, as my grandma lay dying, we spent her last hours watching every single episode from the first, to the last, she actually passed DURING the final episode. Right towards the end. So now, the final episode REALLY has a special meaning for me. While they were saying goodbye forever, so were me and my grandma 😢 It's still hard for me to watch any episode of mash now without feeling nostalgic and even sad. Even to this day, I still say it's the best show that ever aired on television. It's truly timeless and, no matter how many times I've seen every single episode, I think it's impossible to tire of it.

[@marisalombardi385]

I couldn't love, this man, more than I already do❤

[@mps397]

This is what I watch now. I don't even bother with anything else. I love learning about the complex ideas these people discuss.

[@muhammadhamza4494]

Why this channel doesn't have millions of subscriber ? Dr. Brian Greene in conversation with Alan Alda , lectures by great professors , and a 11 hour video lecture by Dr.Greene. What else does a science enthusiasts wants.

[@oaksnice]

Because 90% of the videos are 3 minute clips, made for children, or drivel like this. The full length panel discussions are great though, and so was the Daily Equation series.

[@FlockOfHawks]

The first million is the hardest , but at 997K they're almost there !

[@FlockOfHawks]

@@oaksnice Drivel is in the eye of the beholder . . .

[@hendrasusanto1991]

"It's just reality. Reality is a friend and a part of reality is humanity will never know everything"

[@kirkmosier3826]

Maybe the universe is evolving human into gods them self that will b all knowing person I mean we are the most powerful race we know of evolution is a best look where we came in the little time we been here

[@NewMessage]

Never was an award more deserved.

[@user-vz7tj4hq8b]

@asdf yup

[@SydneyRadio2UE]

Did you catch his wittiness, at 3:00? The dancing girls and "broad education." LOL.

[@sachiperez]

An amazing human being!

[@MrBendybruce]

I think it is profoundly important that humanity itself realizes that the fundamental dichotomy, of a seemingly sterile commitment to the scientific method, is anything but sterile. It is born from a deep, and very human passion. One that believes the path to enlightenment comes from seeking to understand the light itself. So thankyou Alan, for helping to light the way, and to the WSF, for recognizing his contributions.

[@FlockOfHawks]

Thanx a Million for this wonderful Journey 💖

[@vivimontaner]

Life is definitely better with people who are sharing all their best knowledge and human qualities with the rest of the world's simplest people. Love you Alan and Brian.

[@kevinmorgan2818]

It is in the best interests of science to be able to communicate in such a way that the public are able to relate to. Not dumb it down, merely relate it to day to day life everyone can grasp. By doing so it will make science more approachable, interesting and even fun. Simplicity in complexity is a beautiful thing, very powerful. From a single dot emerged the dash, together they build from simplicity of creation of the universe, the micro, into the interconnected complexity of the developed universe, the macro, and everything before, after, and inbetween, down to the neural network of consciousness itself.

[@ineskucharz1990]

This is a wonderful program that makes me want to see more by Alan Alda. Aude sapere!

[@daedra40]

My goodness. I feel so blessed to have come across this video, and to know of such an inpisrational figure as Alan Alda in making science so beautiful a concept to communicate. A fantastic interview, thanks as well to Dr Greene.

[@whiterage7048]

Loved Hawkeye and love seeing him get this award congratulations 🍻😎

[@franciscordon9230]

Big fan of Mr. Alda. Respect. 🙏🏽

[@deeliciousplum]

I thought that I would not be tearful. Boy. I am covered in tears. 🌸

[@donnahaynes8766]

It would be wonderful if you could put together a playlist of the discussions moderated by Alan Alda!

[@vladanlausevic1733]

Alan is a living legend!

[@mauimix1]

What a beautiful tribute this is.

[@daedra40]

And boy was that play at the end just the cherry on top!

[@3_up_moon]

How dare you livestream this during the Rover Landing! I love love love Alan Alda

[@Piipolinoo]

the rover landing is so annoying, boring and cringe, I'm so happy to have found this now

[@TheFlun]

Congratulations Mr. Alda!! A lifetime of contributions to both entertaining and teaching us makes this so well-deserved :)

[@glenn-younger]

I had no idea that Alan Alda was a science nerd! In fact, when I saw him host the World Science Festival program on Black Holes, I thought it was an odd choice for narrator/host. Now I see it wasn't an odd choice at all! Plus, how exciting to discover he's teaching improv to scientists to improve their communication. I ran an Improv Theater in Northern Italy for about 12 years so I know first hand what it does to improve communication and the very way you approach your daily life with more courage and sense of play. Thank you Brian for this presentation!

[@SolaceEasy]

Alan Alda helped me.

[@roxyb03]

If WSF has full recordings of performances of Radiance, Dear Albert or other science plays of Alan Alda's it would be nice if they could be posted on this channel .

[@showmewhyiamwrong]

if you were to enter the mind of Alan Alda I imagine you would find something like this written on its walls. If life is but a game with we the Pawns to move what is the board we move upon And are we set in grooves. A simple verse on the surface that if you really follow the thought may take you from the Quantum world to Cosmos and everywhere in between at least it has for me. Live Long and Prosper Alan Alda.

[@scottsmyth6932]

Yeah I cried at the end. I also loved it. ❤️

[@JohnnyNiteTrain]

They were talking about Alan Alda on Startalk recently and how much he’s into science. This is pretty awesome. I had no idea.

[@glenn-younger]

I didn't either. I love it! BTW, what's Startalk?

[@nixwestlake9196]

I love both these men

[@nerdbirdcreative]

Such an inspiring human

[@loredanadellavedova2647]

The magic of curiosity Congratulations

[@kagannasuhbeyoglu]

Thanks a lot WSF👍 Good man. Good subject.

[@sandorkurta9829]

Hello dear people of WSF . I only wish there was a way for me to thank you for all your work that you have done and are probably busy now doing , but this is something quite out of this world. Such a wonderful and well deserved gesture to Alan Alda . But if some one can show me another movie that is more qualified for an Oscar than this , i will eat my hat with mustard. Thank you for all your efforts.

[@TheAmanla]

Wonders full, I am into math and science. *YOU* did a super job here. Thank *YOU* !!!

[@ClearandVividWithAlanAlda]

Fantastic production!

[@jrluckett]

Fantastic tribute. Congrats, from another science nut!

[@jackcrosser1559]

humanity will never know all things about every individual thing in this universe ..beside humanity will never know the reality of any thing...but humanity will know there is a Great one ...created every thing and nothing at all like him...never ever...

[@gregoryrollins59]

The episode of mash about the hand is something i think about till this day. Thanks. Peace and agap'e.

[@gregoryrollins59]

@@MmM-gw3lc det ar vertligen coolt.

[@ninadesianti9587]

We keep searching, that’s us!

[@masoomahassan6303]

Excellent episode, this bridge between science and communication will hopefully leap us forward, further and faster. It’s so great to make scientific discoveries accessible to the regular population and this art is necessary and helpful in spreading such knowledge and ideas.

[@babbumann7624]

Exciting

[@kamaldey3893]

Congratulation Sir Alan. Thank you very much.

[@shoshannahbrynjonessquare7002]

I can't wait!

[@Biociety]

Reminder set 👍

[@iscovidoveryet7828]

Coming from a science and musical family, would any of the producers mind if I posted this Link on my FB page? Until now, I never could put my finger on why I loved Alan's work so much. The Honor is more than well deserved. Thank you Mr.D'Abruzzo. You may not know it, but your contributions to science continues to be an inspiration to this day in my family. BTW, just so you know, The acting work was funny too...You know from funny.!

[@WorldScienceFestival]

Please do! We'd love for you to share this program with your family and friends.

[@rekhadahiya6268]

Wow🌹🙏🙇‍♀️

[@RickyKirkman]

Fantastic, a well deserved award, a big thank you to Alan x

[@DeconvertedMan]

Alan Alda! ^_^

[@SpotterVideo]

Quantum Entangled Twisted Tubules: When we draw a sine wave on a blackboard, we are representing spatial curvature. Does a photon transfer spatial curvature from one location to another? Wrap a piece of wire around a pencil and it can produce a 3D coil of wire, much like a spring. When viewed from the side it can look like a two-dimensional sine wave. You could coil the wire with either a right-hand twist, or with a left-hand twist. Could Planck's Constant be proportional to the twist cycles. A photon with a higher frequency has more energy. (More spatial curvature). What if gluons are actually made up of these twisted tubes which become entangled with other tubes to produce quarks. (In the same way twisted electrical extension cords can become entangled.) Therefore, the gluons are actually a part of the quarks. Mesons are made up of two entangled tubes (Quarks/Gluons), while protons and neutrons would be made up of three entangled tubes. (Quarks/Gluons) The "Color Force" would be related to the XYZ coordinates (orientation) of entanglement. "Asymptotic Freedom", and "flux tubes" make sense based on this concept. Neutrinos would be made up of a twisted torus (like a twisted donut) within this model. Gravity is a result of a very small curvature imbalance within atoms. (This is why the force of gravity is so small.) Instead of attempting to explain matter as "particles", this concept attempts to explain matter more in the manner of our current understanding of the space-time curvature of gravity. If an electron has qualities of both a particle and a wave, it cannot be either one. It must be something else. Therefore, a "particle" is actually a structure which stores spatial curvature. Can an electron-positron pair (which are made up of opposite directions of twist) annihilate each other by unwinding into each other producing Gamma Ray photons. Alpha decay occurs when the two protons and two neutrons (which are bound together by entangled tubes), become un-entangled from the rest of the nucleons. Beta decay occurs when the tube of a down quark/gluon in a neutron becomes overtwisted and breaks producing a twisted torus (neutrino) and an up quark, and the ejected electron. Gamma photons are produced when a tube unwinds producing electromagnetic waves.

[@hawzhinblanca]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@justdev8965]

Breakthroughs (in plural) in neuroscience? Poppycock! Name me one breakthrough in neuroscience, let alone multiple!

[@brendaclifford714]

It always amazes me that people in science have such a hard time communicating concepts (theory) and then demand people of faith articulate and prove their beliefs. The religion of scientism is growing rapidly. But the scientific community needs to learn their intellectual snobbery is working against them. Is "preaching" a message about God winning hearts and minds these days? Both groups should be allowed to have a voice in shaping our world.

[@ZETA_RETICULI39.17]

Great communication

[@mgiaccount711]

Reality is all we know. What we know is what we’ve gathered proof on and we gather proof to help believe and help make believe. It’s collective thought. The theory of everything is known. We solve for joy. MGI answering your call. Hit us back.

[@patriciablue2739]

Wow

[@DeconvertedMan]

He mentioned natural language! Yes! :D such a complex issue!

[@mgiaccount711]

Alan - sit down or do a zoom call with me for 1 hour and it will turn into the conversation you’ve been asking for. This is MGI answering your call Mr Alan Alda. - we can’t wait to hear back. Tag it’s your turn to hit me back. Ask for Mo

[@paavangaonkar7323]

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[@soggycrawfish1878]

Praise the Lord Jesus 🙏

[@jackcrosser1559]

entanglment ...comes from...SF....which i called...singularity effect...yeah in our kids children we always like to hear the imagination of our kids about every subject....that what we used to do in our home...it seems your home is never like ours... fir that humanity always in acceleration to it's.....extinction.....bye....brian

[@maks4259]

Greetings from Ukraine!

[@ponderinglife5582]

spruce goose

[@rohitraj4275]

❤️

[@jesuspportillo]

Vinick should have won

[@billmoorer1263]

Wake them up

[@zoner41der53]

[@Tacit_Tern]

M.A.S.H

[@twonumber22]

Am I the only one that's a big fan of Mr. Alda but has never watched MASH? 😬

[@jaysonong1025]

The bite-sized staircase singly clear because dolphin postprandially guess afore a ajar swamp. gaping, impartial pot

[@fc-qr1cy]

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[@yahshuarules4801]

Evidence vs Natural Human Conscience To be only scientific and live without trusting our feelings or our intuition is an absolute stupid way of living. Our feelings, our intuition, our gut instincts do count as evidence, and a strong guidance system for living a good reality. Because over a lifetime we test these intuitions and guidance systems of feelings and gut instincts and we attune them to be useful to depend on for guidance when we need it. This is how we live human lives - Natural family-oriented lives. Feelings, intuition, instincts, knowing what feels right and knowing what feels wrong - and doing what feels right and avoiding doing what feels wrong - these are part of human life. They don't require hardcore facts, solid cold evidence, in order to live by this sense of feeling. It feels like scientists sometimes are just not living by a natural human loving life. If they make life all about facts and not about natural human awareness and conscience. Evidence, evidence. A brainwashed generation asks for evidence, because it doesn't know how to tune into the intuition which knows whether something is true. It's been completely brainwashed. It's mind has become a platform for false ideas. How do I have evidence that Jesus is real for me. Because I feel it. Because I know it. Because it's evidence that is something intuitive and beyond words. Why should I listen to my father? Do I need evidence? Or do I just feel I should listen? Do I just feel it's real and true what he's saying to help me grow and protect me? Why should I not just go around cutting chickens heads off? Is it because I feel that that would be wrong? And that that's unnecessary and an unnecessary waste of life? Why should I not murder my mother? Is it an intuitive feeling that I just feel I love her? And that it's just right to be nice to her? So your argument that feelings are not evidence for something being real is absolutely false? Believing in God - believing in Jesus is about trusting our feelings. And you want to somehow set aside our feelings and be only scientific; I think that's an absolutely ridiculous way of living.

[@davidfannin7187]

You are right we live in a world of our design preferring fantasy and delusion. God created no lies for man to find in His Creation. The purpose of science is to seek and find, to open doors and go through them deeply. And unwittingly prove Genesis. God knows we are still in our infancy. Daniel, Revelation and the Second Letter to Timothy says a lot about our time. When the time is near we are told to stand in the Holy place. Our cities are not Hallowed ground.

[@allynfornow]

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