Nobel Minds 2017

The 2017 Nobel Laureates met at the Grünewald Hall in the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm for the traditional round-table discussion and TV program 'Nobel Minds'. The discussion was hosted by the BBC's Zeinab Badawi.
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[andresemilfer]

Guinness world record for IQ per square meter

[Nbsjfvihsfvvhisbvso]

Can’t help but feel sorry for the host. The format of this was basically attempting to individually interview the 15 or so Nobel winners with a very harsh time constraint that left no room for the interaction between them that everyone wanted to see. It meant she constantly had to cut off and interrupt them, making her look like a terrible interviewer.

[miccheck]

This should have been a two hour conversation and without a host.

[maamarmssm]

The amount of respect that every scientist is giving to each other while speaking is amazing we don't see that often.

[aquamina]

17:43 “we are physicists, we worked in biology and we get the Nobel Prize in Chemistry” 😅👏🏿

[sealedwings]

I once met a Nobel, Albert Fert. He asked me what I studied, I said: "Aerospace Engineering", he was not impressed. A charmful experience.

[christopher]

So I'm 3 minutes in, and I'm already under the impression that the host is trying to wrap things up.

[ferdinandluskel]

Its so satisfying to see, how they don't interrupt each other. Its such harmonious conversation.
That shows, how smart people have a conversation. Compare this to politics.

[okezieokoye]

"We are the beneficiaries of also a lot of luck, as well as hard work and perhaps a tiny bit of talent." That humility hit me differently.

[katie]

I worry about the self awareness of anyone who calls themselves “100% rational”.

[Gerwitch]

It's a real shame that a conversation between some of the world's greatest minds would receive only 7000 views, while a video of two people fighting in a shopping mall can get tens of millions.

[LianaAkobian]

"If you write a novel and it´s read by a hundred readers, you´re really writing a hundred novels" - beautifully put! 27:28

[chairmanmar]

The Rick and Morty fan meetup looked fun

[CamRebires]

22:33 the fact that this is such a common, profound narrative, even in the realms of scientists (as rational and objective as it gets) is nothing less than beautiful. Granting people the opportunity to follow what they love and support them in that is invaluable

[monicarao]

I’ve watched every year’s nobel minds but most people agree the 2017 conversation is the most interesting authentic, insightful.

[gravitydahiya]

Finally got this suggestion, I think my feed is on the right track.

[meir]

This could have been great. If it had been a conversation instead of an inane attempt to interview so many people at once.

[SergeantColdgirl]

22:39 - 23:38 -- This statement said by Rainer Weiss got me at the heart.

His small speech on dedicating your life to something shouldn't be for an award or recognition, but for the sheer pleasure of working on it or better yet "having fun with it". Although not important, the recognition follows later for others that see your vision as you saw it when you first started working on your pursuit.

It's almost as if it came out of a movie script about brilliant intellectuals coinciding their ideas. EXCEPT IT'S REAL!

[decentexposures]

There’s so much respect towards writer Kazuo Ishiguro from the scientists that you rarely see in the real world. I hope one day liberal-fine arts can co-exist peacefully with STEM, instead of people arguing about which one’s more difficult or which one’s more profound. It’s clear that fine-arts has a gift of “nudging” society that through films and music, and vice versa. Interstellar is a great example of that. Kip Thorne and Ishiguro should work on a film together. Would love to see that.

[blueneuville]

This conversation is way too short. Love to hear these people talk. There's so much potential for great discussion and dumbed down insight for all of us but no time to go there. Imagine if you could let these people talk for a couple of hours. Would be priceless.