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La La Land: Galileo's Warning
Season 1
Episode 3
Published 6 years, 3 months ago
Description
Galileo tried to teach us that adding more and more layers to a system intended to avert disaster often makes catastrophe all the more likely to happen. His basic lesson has been ignored in nuclear power plants, financial markets and at the Oscars... all resulting in chaos.
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