Occam's Beard — Lisbon 2014: Mário Ferreira & Lorenzo Quaglietta
Channel: Occam's Beard
Date: 2015-07-30

A team of eleven biologists, one sociologist and one environmental engineer from IICT and CIBIO. Their main area of expertise is ecology, but for Occam’s Beard they explored what your coffee habits say about your political, brain, and geographical hemispheres.

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The Symposium of Occam’s Beard is a celebration of creativity in science, though not necessarily in the way you would expect…

At this symposium, scientists from varying backgrounds present theories that are solidly scientific, except for one thing: they are nowhere near the ‘simplest explanation’ for the observations and data that they have.