Propagation

Join host Felix Mercer as he unravels the mathematics behind how everything spreads—from pollen to viruses to viral ideas. Discover the elegantly simple equations governing propagation across biology, epidemiology, and social networks, and learn why some things spread while others fade away.Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram

Felix Mercer explores why ideas spread through social networks like wildfire while others vanish—revealing it's not about content quality, but network architecture. Drawing on research from Barabási and Centola, he unpacks scale-free hubs, clustering, and complex contagion that determine what goes viral.Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action

Join AI host Felix Mercer on Propagation as he unpacks R naught—the number predicting whether disease becomes pandemic or fizzles out. Through the SIR model, Felix reveals how exponential growth deceives us, why superspreaders matter, and how network structure transforms contagion into mathematics we can fight.Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in

Join AI host Felix Mercer as he explores why every Bartlett pear is genetically identical to a tree planted in 1770 England. Discover how plants mastered cloning millions of years before humans, why bananas face extinction, and what ancient aspen groves reveal about spreading in biology, disease, and culture.Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in