Watch: The Common Foundation Underlying Physical/Social Systems – Jay W. Forrester

17 Friday Jul 2026

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Jay Forrester is professor emeritus of Management in System Dynamics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
A pioneer in early digital computer development and a member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Professor Forrester invented random-access magnetic-core memory during the first wave of modern computers. He also pioneered the growing field of system dynamics. His research focuses on the behavior of economic systems, including the causes of business cycles and the major depressions, a new type of dynamics-based management education, and system dynamics as a unifying theme in pre-college education.

Watch: Plainfield, Two Years After the Flood [Stuck in Vermont 771]

11 Saturday Jul 2026

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On July 10 and 11, 2024, the village of Plainfield was hit hard by flooding that washed out roads, bridges, houses and apartments, the second major flooding event in as many years. After a deluge of rain, the Great Brook was raging with trees and rocks when it demolished the Mill Street Bridge and two-thirds of a historic apartment building that locals call the “Heartbreak Hotel.” Five cats died, and 12 residents were displaced. Images of the remnants of the battered building were seen around the globe in the news coverage that followed.

Watch: A Philosophical Look at System Dynamics

10 Friday Jul 2026

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Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Spring of 1977. In this lecture, Donella Meadows takes on a more philosophical concept. How can we bring ourselves to be aware of the assumptions we make as systems thinkers? She asserts that models are a set of assumptions. Donella Meadows defines some of these system dynamics assumptions (such as causal relationships and feedback loops) in this video.

Watch: How Millions of Americans Got Tricked Into Using a Bank That Isn’t a Bank

03 Friday Jul 2026

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$100 million went missing from an online bank.
“Neobanks” promise higher rates and lower fees, but they exist in a regulatory black box created by Andreessen, Thiel, Musk and more.
We investigated an online bank where thousands of Americans’ FDIC-insured savings vanished.
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Watch: Worker Co-ops, ride share that works

26 Friday Jun 2026

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Worker co-ops could be a solution to the rigged, unequal economy Americans are up against.

We talked to drivers at a rideshare company in Colorado.

They own the company together, and now when they drive a route they make more than 2x what they make driving Uber.

This video features content from Hans Taparia and Bruce Buchanan’s forthcoming book People’s Capitalism.

Watch: AI Was Never About Helping You | Cory Doctorow

25 Thursday Jun 2026

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Cory Doctorow has a refrain: “The most important thing about a gadget isn’t what it does; it’s who it does it for and what it does it to.” In this episode of “Galaxy Brain,” he sits down with Charlie Warzel to talk about the AI boom, making the case that the hype, vision, and dreams of endless growth are unsustainable. Doctorow expands on his viral “enshittification” thesis: a critique of AI based around power and whether we are using AI tools or being used by them.