Michael Hochberg - mystery and our pivotal moments, innovation, and science from cells to societies

Michael Hochberg is Distinguished Research Director with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (the French National Centre for Scientific Research) and based at the University of Montpellier, France. His research has for many years spanned fields from ecology to epidemiology to biodiversity to innovation to the communication of science and touches every scale imaginable, from cells to societies.

Show Notes:

the magic of doing science (04:20)Howell Daley (13:00)Some of the breadth of Michael's publications (13:30)Ecology drives the worldwide distribution of human diseasesAn ecosystem framework for understanding and treating diseaseInnovation: an emerging focus from cells to societiesAn Editor's Guide to Writing and Publishing Science (13:40)The richness of the evolutionary perspective (14:00)social parasitism (22:00)How social interactions factor into how he sees the world (34:00)Chinchorro cultureMarquet et al., Emergence of social complexity among coastal hunter-gatherers in the Atacama Desert of northern ChileThe connection of climate change and culture changeEssence of innovation (44:20)The adjacent possible - Stuart Kauffman (44:30)Origins of Order by Stuart Kauffman Article: Innovation: an emerging focus from cells to societies (46:10)Parallel between mutation in biology and invention in technology (47:00)Are We Publishing Too Many Articles? (51:30)The knowledge commons (51:45)The hedonic treadmill (52:10)Science and art (55:30)Evaluation culture (55:50)Lightning round (01:05:20)Book: Exercised by Daniel LiebermanPassion: Listening to and playing music musicHeart sing: bloggingScrewed up: Remaining in certain collaborations too longFind Michael online:Blog: https://mehochberg.wixsite.com/blogTwitter: @HochTwit'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series  Michael’s playlist