Burstiness - Sixty Symbols

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We let Philip Moriarty off the leash to discuss burstiness and draw some graphs on his blackboard. Enjoy! More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ Professor Moriarty's blog to accompany this video: https://muircheartblog.wpcomstaging.com/2026/08/11/can-a-diffusing-molecule-predict-when-youll-answer-your-emails/ Philip Moriarty videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBMluNZrpoiFc-5buqD74JNs Some papers and books discussed in this video... Static heterogeneity generates apparent universality in first-passage bursty dynamics - https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15084 Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do - https://amzn.to/4q7dyu6 Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf's law - https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0412004 Modeling bursts and heavy tails in human dynamics - https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0510117 Darwin and Einstein correspondence patterns - https://www.nature.com/articles/4371251a Burstiness of human physical activities and their characterization - https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.00201 Support our videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sixtysymbols This project features scientists from The University of Nottingham http://bit.ly/NottsPhysics Sixty Symbols videos by Brady Haran http://www.bradyharanblog.com Brady's chemistry channel is Periodic Videos - https://www.youtube.com/periodicvideos And mathematics at Numberphile - https://www.youtube.com/numberphile

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