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Duncan Watts on common sense

Posted on 28/08/2012

I recently discovered this video of a TEDx talk by Duncan Watts, my favorite physicist-turned-sociologist, in which he nicely and effectively summarizes the main points of his latest book, Everything is Obvious (Once You Know the Answer).* Good stuff.

 

* See also here.

1 thought on “Duncan Watts on common sense”

  1. michal says:
    28/08/2012 at 18:07

    Thanks. I missed that one.

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