Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
By Sean Carroll | Wondery
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EDCOR
Sep 16, 2024
Apr 12, 2024
Sean
Oct 24, 2023
Brilliant. Sean is an excellent communicator and the subjects he tackles are very interesting. if you love science, you'll love this.
Audionull
Aug 22, 2023
Elwood
Jul 8, 2023
This podcast series is a masterclass in interviewing, conceptualising and summarizing. With wit and intellectual depth. SC is a great communicator.
Description
Ever wanted to know how music affects your brain, what quantum mechanics really is, or how black holes work? Do you wonder why you get emotional each time you see a certain movie, or how on earth video games are designed? Then you’ve come to the right place. Each week, Sean Carroll will host conversations with some of the most interesting thinkers in the world. From neuroscientists and engineers to authors and television producers, Sean and his guests talk about the biggest ideas in science, philosophy, culture and much more.
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Holiday Message | Hits and Misses
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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299 | Michael Wong on Information, Function, and the Origin of Life
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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298 | Jeff Lichtman on the Wiring Diagram of the Brain
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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AMA | December 2024
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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297 | Emily Wilson on Homer, Poetry, and Translation
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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296 | Brandon Ogbunu on Fitness Seascapes and the Course of Evolution
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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AMA | November 2024
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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294 | Addy Pross on Dynamics, Stability, and Life
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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293 | Doyne Farmer on Chaos, Crashes, and Economic Complexity
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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292 | Jonathan Birch on Animal Sentience
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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AMA | October 2024
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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290 | Hahrie Han on Making Multicultural Democracy Work
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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289 | Cari Cesarotti on the Next Generation of Particle Experiments
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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288 | Max Richter on the Meaning of Classical Music Today
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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AMA | September 2024
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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286 | Blaise Agüera y Arcas on the Emergence of Replication and Computation
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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285 | Nate Silver on Prediction, Risk, and Rationality
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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AMA | August 2024
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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284 | Doris Tsao on How the Brain Turns Vision Into the World
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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283 | Daron Acemoglu on Technology, Inequality, and Power
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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282 | Joel David Hamkins on Puzzles of Reality and Infinity
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Ask Me Anything | July 2024
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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281 | Samir Okasha on the Philosophy of Agency and Evolution
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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280 | François Chollet on Deep Learning and the Meaning of Intelligence
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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279 | Ellen Langer on Mindfulness and the Body
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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278 | Kieran Healy on the Technology of Ranking People
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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AMA | June 2024
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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277 | Cumrun Vafa on the Universe According to String Theory
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May 27, 2024 |
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276 | Gavin Schmidt on Measuring, Predicting, and Protecting Our Climate
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May 20, 2024 |
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275 | Solo: Quantum Fields, Particles, Forces, and Symmetries
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May 13, 2024 |
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AMA | May 2024
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May 06, 2024 |
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274 | Gizem Gumuskaya on Building Robots from Human Cells
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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273 | Stefanos Geroulanos on the Invention of Prehistory
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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272 | Leslie Valiant on Learning and Educability in Computers and People
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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AMA | April 2024
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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271 | Claudia de Rham on Modifying General Relativity
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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270 | Solo: The Coming Transition in How Humanity Lives
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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269 | Sahar Heydari Fard on Complexity, Justice, and Social Dynamics
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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AMA | March 2024
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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268 | Matt Strassler on Relativity, Fields, and the Language of Reality
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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267 | Benjamin Breen on Margaret Mead, Psychedelics, and Utopia
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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266 | Christoph Adami on How Information Makes Sense of Biology
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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AMA | February 2024
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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265 | John Skrentny on How the Economy Mistreats STEM Workers
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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264 | Sabine Stanley on What's Inside Planets
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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263 | Chris Quigg on Symmetry and the Birth of the Standard Model
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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262 | Eric Schwitzgebel on the Weirdness of the World
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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261 | Sanjana Curtis on the Origins of the Elements
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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260 | Ricard Solé on the Space of Cognitions
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Holiday Message: Reflections on Immortality
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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259 | Adam Frank on What Aliens Might Be Like
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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AMA | December 2023
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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258 | Solo: AI Thinks Different
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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257 | Derek Guy on the Theory and Practice of Dressing Well
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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256 | Kelly and Zach Weinersmith on Building Cities on the Moon and Mars
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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AMA | November 2023
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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255 | Michael Muthukrishna on Developing a Theory of Everyone
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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254 | William Egginton on Kant, Heisenberg, and Borges
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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253 | David Deutsch on Science, Complexity, and Explanation
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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AMA | October 2023
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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252 | Hannah Ritchie on Keeping Hope for the Planet Alive
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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251 | Rosemary Braun on Uncovering Patterns in Biological Complexity
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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250 | Brendan Nyhan on Navigating the Information Ecosystem
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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249 | Peter Godfrey-Smith on Sentience and Octopus Minds
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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AMA | September 2023
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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248 | Yejin Choi on AI and Common Sense
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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247 | Samuel Bowles on Economics, Cooperation, and Inequality
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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246 | David Stuart on Time and Science in Maya Civilization
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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AMA | August 2023
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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245 | Solo: The Crisis in Physics
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Explanation
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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243 | Joseph Silk on Science on the Moon
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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242 | David Krakauer on Complexity, Agency, and Information
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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AMA | July 2023
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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241 | Tim Maudlin on Locality, Hidden Variables, and Quantum Foundations
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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240 | Andrew Pontzen on Simulations and the Universe
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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239 | Brian Lowery on the Social Self
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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AMA | June 2023
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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238 | Scott Shapiro on the Technology and Philosophy of Hacking
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May 29, 2023 |
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237 | Brooke Harrington on Offshore Wealth as a Complex System
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May 22, 2023 |
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236 | Thomas Hertog on Quantum Cosmology and Hawking's Final Theory
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May 15, 2023 |
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AMA | May 2023
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May 08, 2023 |
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235 | Andy Clark on the Extended and Predictive Mind
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May 01, 2023 |
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234 | Tobias Warnecke on Cellular Structure and Evolution
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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233 | Hugo Mercier on Reasoning and Skepticism
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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232 | Amy Finkelstein on Adverse Selection and Hidden Information
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Ask Me Anything | April 2023
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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230 | Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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229 | Nita Farahany on Ethics, Law, and Neurotechnology
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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AMA | March 2023
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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228 | Skye Cleary on Existentialism and Authenticity
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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227 | Molly Crockett on the Psychology of Morality
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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226 | Johanna Hoffman on Speculative Futures of Cities
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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AMA | February 2023
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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225 | Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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224 | Edward Tufte on Data, Design, and Truth
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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223 | Tania Lombrozo on What Explanations Are
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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222 | Andrew Strominger on Quantum Gravity and the Real World
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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221 | Adam Bulley on How Mental Time Travel Makes Us Human
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Holiday Message 2022: Thinking Really Slowly
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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220 | Lara Buchak on Risk and Rationality
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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AMA | December 2022
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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219 | Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn on the Neuroscience and Philosophy of Curiosity
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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218 | Raphael Bousso on Black Holes and the Holographic Universe
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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217 | Margaret Levi on Moral Political Economy
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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AMA | November 2022
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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216 | John Allen Paulos on Numbers, Narratives, and Numeracy
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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214 | Antonio Padilla on Large Numbers and the Scope of the Universe
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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AMA | October 2022
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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213 | Timiebi Aganaba on Law and Governance in Space
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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212 | Chiara Mingarelli on Searching for Black Holes with Pulsars
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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211 | Solo: Secrets of Einstein's Equation
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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210 | Randall Munroe on Imagining What If...?
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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209 | Brad DeLong on Why the 20th Century Fell Short of Utopia
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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AMA | September 2022
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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208 | Rick Beato on the Theory of Popular Music
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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207 | William MacAskill on Maximizing Good in the Present and Future
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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206 | Simon Conway Morris on Evolution, Convergence, and Theism
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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AMA | August 2022
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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205 | John Quiggin on Interest Rates and the Information Economy
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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204 | John Asher Johnson on Hunting for Exoplanets
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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203 | N.J. Enfield on Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Not Scientists
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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AMA | July 2022
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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202 | Andrew Papachristos on the Network Theory of Gun Violence
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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201 | Ed Yong on How Animals Sense the World
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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AMA | June 2022
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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200 | Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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199 | Elizabeth Cohen on Time and Other Political Values
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May 30, 2022 |
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198 | Nick Lane on Powering Biology
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May 23, 2022 |
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197 | Catherine Brinkley on the Science of Cities
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May 16, 2022 |
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AMA | May 2022
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May 12, 2022 |
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196 | Judea Pearl on Cause and Effect
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May 09, 2022 |
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195 | Richard Dawkins on Flight and Other Evolutionary Achievements
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May 02, 2022 |
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194 | Frans de Waal on Culture and Gender in Primates
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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193 | Daniels on Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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AMA | April 2022
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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192 | Nicole Yunger Halpern on Quantum Steampunk Thermodynamics
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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191 | Jane McGonigal on How to Imagine the Future
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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190 | Lea Goentoro on Regrowing Limbs
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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189 | Brian Klaas on Power and the Temptation of Corruption
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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AMA | March 2022
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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188 | Arik Kershenbaum on What Aliens Will Be Like
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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187 | Andrew Leigh on the Politics of Looming Disasters
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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186 | Sherry Turkle on How Technology Affects Our Humanity
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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185 | Arvid Ågren on the Gene’s-Eye View of Evolution
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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184 | Gary Marcus on Artificial Intelligence and Common Sense
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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AMA | February 2022
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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183 | Michael Dine on Supersymmetry, Anthropics, and the Future of Particle Physics
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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182 | Sally Haslanger on Social Construction and Critical Theory
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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181 | Peter Dodds on Quantifying the Shape of Stories
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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180 | Camilla Pang on Instructions for Being Human
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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179 | David Reich on Genetics and Ancient Humanity
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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178 | Jody Azzouni on What Is and Isn't Real
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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Holiday Message 2021 | On Disciplines & Cocktails
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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AMA | December 2021
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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177 | Monika Schleier-Smith on Cold Atoms and Emergent Spacetime
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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176 | Joshua Greene on Morality, Psychology, and Trolley Problems
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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175 | William Ratcliff on Multicellularity, Physics, and Evolution
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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174 | Tai-Danae Bradley on Algebra, Topology, Language, and Entropy
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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AMA | November 2021
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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173 | Sylvia Earle on the Oceans, the Planet, and People
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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172 | David Goyer on Televising the Fall of the Galactic Empire
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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171 | Christopher Mims on Our Interconnected Industrial Ecology
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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170 | Priya Natarajan on Galaxies, Black Holes, and Cosmic Anomalies
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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169 | C. Thi Nguyen on Games, Art, Values, and Agency
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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AMA | October 2021
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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168 | Anil Seth on Emergence, Information, and Consciousness
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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167 | Chiara Marletto on Constructor Theory, Physics, and Possibility
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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166 | Betül Kaçar on Paleogenomics and Ancient Life
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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165 | Kathryn Paige Harden on Genetics, Luck, and Fairness
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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AMA | September 2021
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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164 | Herbert Gintis on Game Theory, Evolution, and Social Rationality
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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163 | Nigel Goldenfeld on Phase Transitions, Criticality, and Biology
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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162 | Leidy Klotz on Our Resistance to Subtractive Change
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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161 | W. Brian Arthur on Complexity Economics
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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160 | Edward Slingerland on Confucianism, Daoism, and Wu Wei
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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AMA | August 2021
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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159 | Mari Ruti on Lack, Love, and Psychoanalysis
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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158 | David Wallace on the Arrow of Time
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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157 | Elizabeth Strychalski on Synthetic Cells and the Rules of Biology
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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156 | Catherine D’Ignazio on Data, Objectivity, and Bias
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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155 | Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental Physics
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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AMA | July 2021
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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154 | Reza Aslan on Religion, Metaphor, and Meaning
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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153 | John Preskill on Quantum Computers and What They’re Good For
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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152 | Charis Kubrin on Criminology, Incarceration, and Hip-Hop
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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151 | Jordan Ellenberg on the Mathematics of Political Boundaries
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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AMA | June 2021
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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150 | Simon DeDeo on How Explanations Work and Why They Sometimes Fail
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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149 | Lee Smolin on Time, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality
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May 31, 2021 |
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148 | Henry Farrell on Democracy as a Problem-Solving Mechanism
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May 24, 2021 |
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147 | Rachel Laudan on Cuisine, Culture, and Empire
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May 17, 2021 |
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AMA | May 2021
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May 13, 2021 |
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146 | Emily Riehl on Topology, Categories, and the Future of Mathematics
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May 10, 2021 |
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145 | Niall Ferguson on Histories, Networks, and Catastrophes
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May 03, 2021 |
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144 | Solo: Are We Moving Beyond the Standard Model?
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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143 | Julia Galef on Openness, Bias, and Rationality
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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AMA | April 2021
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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142 | Charlie Jane Anders on Stories and How to Write Them
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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141 | Zeynep Tufekci on Information and Attention in a Networked World
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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140 | Dean Buonomano on Time, Reality, and the Brain
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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139 | Elizabeth Anderson on Equality, Work, and Ideology
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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138 | Daryl Morey on Analytics, Psychology, and Basketball
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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AMA | March 2021
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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137 | Justin Clarke-Doane on Mathematics, Morality, Objectivity, and Reality
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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136 | Roderick Graham on Cyberspace, Race, and Cultural Conservatism
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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135 | Shadi Bartsch on Plato, Vergil, Confucius, and Modernity
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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AMA | February 2021
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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134 | Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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133 | Ziya Tong on Realities We Don't See
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Bonus | AIP Oral History Interview
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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132 | Michael Levin on Growth, Form, Information, and the Self
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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131 | Avi Loeb on Taking Aliens Seriously
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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130 | Frank Wilczek on the Present and Future of Fundamental Physics
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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129 | Solo: Democracy in America
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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128 | Joseph Henrich on the Weirdness of the West
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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Holiday Message 2020 | The Screwy Universe
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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127 | Erich Jarvis on Language, Birds, and People
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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AMA | December 2020
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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126 | David Stasavage on the Origin and History of Democracy
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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125 | David Haig on the Evolution of Meaning from Darwin to Derrida
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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124 | Solo: How Time Travel Could and Should Work
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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AMA | November 2020
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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123 | Lisa Feldman Barrett on Emotions, Actions, and the Brain
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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122 | David Eagleman on Tapping Into the Livewired Brain
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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121 | Cornel West on What Democracy Is and Should Be
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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120 | Jeremy England on Biology, Thermodynamics, and the Bible
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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119 | Musa al-Gharbi on the Value of Intellectual Diversity
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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118 | Adam Riess on the Expansion of the Universe and a Crisis in Cosmology
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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117 | Sean B. Carroll on Randomness and the Course of Evolution
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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116 | Teresa Bejan on Free Speech, Civility, and Toleration
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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115 | Netta Engelhardt on Black Hole Information, Wormholes, and Quantum Gravity
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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114 | Angela Chen on Asexuality in a Sex-Preoccupied World
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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113 | Cailin O'Connor on Game Theory, Evolution, and the Origins of Unfairness
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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112 | Fyodor Urnov on Gene Editing, CRISPR, and Human Engineering
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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111 | Nick Bostrom on Anthropic Selection and Living in a Simulation
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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110 | Neil Johnson on Complexity, Conflict, and Infodemiology
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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109 | Jason Torchinsky on Our Self-Driving Future
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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108 | Carl Bergstrom on Information, Disinformation, and Bullshit
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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107 | Russ Shafer-Landau on the Reality of Morality
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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106 | Stuart Bartlett on What "Life" Means
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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105 | Ann-Sophie Barwich on the Science and Philosophy of Smell
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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104 | David Rosen and Scott Miles on the Neuroscience of Music and Creativity
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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103 | J. Kenji López-Alt on Cooking As and With Science
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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102 | Maria Konnikova on Poker, Psychology, and Reason
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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101 | David Baltimore on the Mysteries of Viruses
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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100 | Solo | Life and Its Meaning
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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99 | Scott Aaronson on Complexity, Computation, and Quantum Gravity
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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98 | Olga Khazan on Living and Flourishing While Being Weird
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May 25, 2020 |
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97 | John Danaher on Our Coming Automated Utopia
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May 18, 2020 |
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96 | Lina Necib on What and Where the Dark Matter Is
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May 11, 2020 |
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95 | Liam Kofi Bright on Knowledge, Truth, and Science
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May 04, 2020 |
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94 | Stuart Russell on Making Artificial Intelligence Compatible with Humans
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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93 | Rae Wynn-Grant on Bears, Humans, and Other Predators
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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92 | Kevin Hand on Life Elsewhere in the Solar System
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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91 | Scott Barry Kaufman on the Psychology of Transcendence
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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90 | David Kaiser on Science, Money, and Power
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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89 | Lera Boroditsky on Language, Thought, Space, and Time
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Tara Smith on Coronavirus, Pandemics, and What We Can Do
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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88 | Neil Shubin on Evolution, Genes, and Dramatic Transitions
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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87 | Karl Friston on Brains, Predictions, and Free Energy
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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86 | Martin Rees on Threats to Humanity, Prospects for Posthumanity, and Life in the Universe
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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85 | L.A. Paul on Transformative Experiences and Your Future Selves
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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84 | Suresh Naidu on Capitalism, Monopsony, and Inequality
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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83 | Kwame Anthony Appiah on Identity, Stories, and Cosmopolitanism
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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82 | Robin Carhart-Harris on Psychedelics and the Brain
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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81 | Ezra Klein on Politics, Polarization, and Identity
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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80 | Jenann Ismael on Connecting Physics to the World of Experience
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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79 | Sara Imari Walker on Information and the Origin of Life
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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78 | Daniel Dennett on Minds, Patterns, and the Scientific Image
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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Holiday Message 2019: On Publishing Books
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Dec 22, 2019 |
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77 | Azra Raza on The Way We Should Fight Cancer
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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76 | Ned Hall on Possible Worlds and the Laws of Nature
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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75 | Max Tegmark on Reality, Simulation, and the Multiverse
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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74 | Stephen Greenblatt on Stories, History, and Cultural Poetics
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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73 | Grimes (c) on Music, Creativity, and Digital Personae
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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72 | César Hidalgo on Information in Societies, Economies, and the Universe
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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71 | Philip Goff on Consciousness Everywhere
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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70 | Katie Mack on How the Universe Will End
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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69 | Cory Doctorow on Technology, Monopoly, and the Future of the Internet
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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68 | Melanie Mitchell on Artificial Intelligence and the Challenge of Common Sense
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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67 | Kate Jeffery on Entropy, Complexity, and Evolution
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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66 | Will Wilkinson on Partisan Polarization and the Urban/Rural Divide
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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65 | Michael Mann on Why Our Climate Is Changing and How We Know
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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64 | Ramez Naam on Renewable Energy and an Optimistic Future
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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63 | Solo -- Finding Gravity Within Quantum Mechanics
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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62 | Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Societies and People
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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61 | Quassim Cassam on Intellectual Vices and What to Do About Them
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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60 | Lynne Kelly on Memory Palaces, Ancient and Modern
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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59 | Adam Becker on the Curious History of Quantum Mechanics
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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58 | Seth MacFarlane on Using Science Fiction to Explore Humanity
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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57 | Astra Taylor on the Promise and Challenge of Democracy
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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56 | Kate Adamala on Creating Synthetic Life
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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55 | A Conversation with Rob Reid on Quantum Mechanics and Many Worlds
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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54 | Indre Viskontas on Music and the Brain
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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53 | Solo -- On Morality and Rationality
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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52 | Frank Lantz on the Logic and Emotion of Games
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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51 | Anthony Aguirre on Cosmology, Zen, Entropy, and Information
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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50 | Patricia Churchland on Conscience, Morality, and the Brain
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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49 | Nicholas Christakis on Humanity, Biology, and What Makes Us Good
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Jun 03, 2019 |
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48 | Marq de Villiers on Hell and Damnation
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May 27, 2019 |
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47 | Adam Rutherford on Humans, Animals, and Life in General
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May 20, 2019 |
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46 | Kate Darling on Our Connections with Robots
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May 13, 2019 |
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45 | Leonard Susskind on Quantum Information, Quantum Gravity, and Holography
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May 06, 2019 |
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44 | Antonio Damasio on Feelings, Thoughts, and the Evolution of Humanity
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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43 | Matthew Luczy on the Pleasures of Wine
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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42 | Natalya Bailey on Navigating Earth Orbit and Beyond
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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41 | Steven Strogatz on Synchronization, Networks, and the Emergence of Complex Behavior
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Apr 08, 2019 |
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40 | Adrienne Mayor on Gods and Robots in Ancient Mythology
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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39 | Malcolm MacIver on Sensing, Consciousness, and Imagination
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Mar 25, 2019 |
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38 | Alan Lightman on Transcendence, Science, and a Naturalist’s Sense of Meaning
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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37 | Edward Watts on the End of the Roman Republic and Lessons for Democracy
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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36 | David Albert on Quantum Measurement and the Problems with Many-Worlds
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Mar 04, 2019 |
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35 | Jessica Yellin on The Changing Ways We Get Our News
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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34 | Paul Bloom on Empathy, Rationality, Morality, and Cruelty
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Feb 18, 2019 |
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33 | James Ladyman on Reality, Metaphysics, and Complexity
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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32 | Naomi Oreskes on Climate Change and the Distortion of Scientific Facts
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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31 | Brian Greene on the Multiverse, Inflation, and the String Theory Landscape
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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30 | Derek Leben on Ethics for Robots and Artificial Intelligences
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Jan 21, 2019 |
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29 | Raychelle Burks on the Chemistry of Murder
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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28 | Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Consciousness, and the Universe
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Jan 07, 2019 |
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Holiday Message 2018
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Dec 24, 2018 |
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27 | Janna Levin on Black Holes, Chaos, and the Narrative of Science
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Dec 17, 2018 |
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26 | Ge Wang on Artful Design, Computers, and Music
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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25 | David Chalmers on Consciousness, the Hard Problem, and Living in a Simulation
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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24 | Kip Thorne on Gravitational Waves, Time Travel, and Interstellar
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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23 | Lisa Aziz-Zadeh on Embodied Cognition, Mirror Neurons, and Empathy
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Nov 19, 2018 |
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22 | Joe Walston on Conservation, Urbanization, and the Way We Live on Earth
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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21 | Alex Rosenberg on Naturalism, History, and Theory of Mind
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Nov 05, 2018 |
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20 | Scott Derrickson on Cinema, Blockbusters, Horror, and Mystery
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Oct 29, 2018 |
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19 | Tyler Cowen on Maximizing Growth and Thinking for the Future
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Oct 22, 2018 |
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18 | Clifford Johnson on What's So Great About Superstring Theory
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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17 | Annalee Newitz on Science, Fiction, Economics, and Neurosis
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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16 | Coleen Murphy on Aging, Biology, and the Future
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Oct 01, 2018 |
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15 | David Poeppel on Thought, Language, and How to Understand the Brain
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Sep 08, 2018 |
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14 | Alta Charo on Bioethics and the Law
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Sep 08, 2018 |
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13 | Neha Narula on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of the Internet
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Sep 08, 2018 |
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12 | Wynton Marsalis on Jazz, Time, and America
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Sep 04, 2018 |
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11 | Mike Brown on Killing Pluto and Replacing It with Planet 9
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Aug 27, 2018 |
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10 | Megan Rosenbloom on the Death Positive Movement
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Aug 20, 2018 |
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9 | Solo -- Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing?
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Aug 13, 2018 |
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8 | Carl Zimmer on Heredity, DNA, and Editing Genes
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Aug 06, 2018 |
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7 | Yascha Mounk on Threats to Liberal Democracy
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Jul 30, 2018 |
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6 | Liv Boeree on Poker, Aliens, and Thinking in Probabilities
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Jul 23, 2018 |
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5 | Geoffrey West on Networks, Scaling, and the Pace of Life
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Jul 16, 2018 |
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4 | Anthony Pinn on Humanism, Theology, and the Black Community
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Jul 12, 2018 |
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3 | Alice Dreger on Sexuality, Truth, and Justice
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Jul 11, 2018 |
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2 | Carlo Rovelli on Quantum Mechanics, Spacetime, and Reality
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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1 | Carol Tavris on Mistakes, Justification, and Cognitive Dissonance
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Jul 04, 2018 |
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Welcome to the Mindscape Podcast!
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Jul 01, 2018 |