> The talk is very often the distillation of the ideas This seemed a major omission of the OP. The distillation quality hierarchy goes something like 'convers

> The talk is very often the distillation of the ideas This seemed a major omission of the OP. The distillation quality hierarchy goes something like 'conversation among best-in-field researchers', 'conversation with principals' and 'research talk by principals, plus subsequent questions/conversations', 'review paper', 'journal commentary' and 'papers' but... in many fields, papers really need some of the above to provide critical context. So a distillation system exists - it's just very very narrowly scoped. It's sad to see graduate students and young faculty who haven't "plugged-in", and so are not spending their time well. And it's depressing to see a 'conversation among best-in-field researchers' excoriating a perspective on a topic, knowing that broken perspective is how the topic is pervasively taught, graduate down to high-school, and it's not going to change any year soon. There being few incentives or mechanism to pipeline such insight into educational content. So yes, starting to build an expectation that talks become available as video, and are easily found, could be a non-trial step forward.