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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow: Positive Human Behavior from 2021-11-15T09:00
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI (1934-2021) (pronounced "chick-SENT-me high") was a Hungarian-b...
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Larry Brilliant - A Very Bumpy Ride from 2020-12-07T11:00
Epidemiologist and pandemic expert LARRY BRILLIANT, MD, is on the Advisory Board for Ending Pandemics....
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David Kaiser - The Shifting Terrain of Scientific Inquiry from 2020-07-13T09:00
DAVID KAISER is the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of physics at MIT. He is ...
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Ainissa Ramirez - Interrogating and Shaping the World Through Science from 2020-06-25T09:00
AINISSA RAMIREZ is a materials scientist and science communicator. She is the author, most recently, of <...
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Stephen Wolfram - Computation All the Way Down from 2020-06-19T09:00
STEPHEN WOLFRAM is a scientist, inventor, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. He is the creator ...
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Laurence C. Smith - How Humans Make the Earth Their Home from 2020-06-12T10:00
LAURENCE C. SMITH is the John Atwater and Diana Nelson University Professor of Environmental Studies and...
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Toby Ord - We Have the Power to Destroy Ourselves Without the Wisdom to Ensure That We Don't from 2020-04-06T10:00
TOBY ORD is a senior research fellow in philosophy at Oxford University and author of _The Precipice: Existentia...
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Donald Hoffman - Realism Is False from 2020-01-28T10:00
DONALD D. HOFFMAN is a full professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Irvine. He i...
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Lee Smolin - The Causal Theory of Views from 2019-12-19T09:45
LEE SMOLIN, a theoretical physicist, is a founding and senior faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Th...
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Markus Gabriel - The Paradox of Self-Consciousness [11.11.19] from 2019-11-11T10:00
MARKUS GABRIEL, one of the founders of New Realism, holds the Chair for Epistemology, Modern and Contempor...
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Seth Lloyd - Communal Intelligence [10.28.19] from 2019-10-28T10:00
SETH LLOYD is a theoretical physicist at MIT; Nam P. Suh Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering...
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Patricia Churchland - The Nature of Moral Motivation from 2019-10-16T10:00
PATRICIA S. CHURCHLAND is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of California, San Die...
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Robert Pollack - Rethinking Our Vision of Success [10.10.19] from 2019-10-10T10:00
ROBERT POLLACK is a professor of biological sciences, and also serves as director of the University Semina...
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Philip Goff - A Post-Galilean Paradigm [9.24.19] from 2019-09-24T10:00
PHILIP GOFF is a philosopher and consciousness researcher at Durham University, UK, and author of Galileo...
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Julian Barbour - The Universe Is Not in a Box [9.11.19] from 2019-09-11T10:00
JULIAN BARBOUR is a theoretical physicist specializing in the study of time and motion; emeritus visiting ...
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W. Daniel Hillis - Emergences [9.4.19] from 2019-09-04T10:00
W. DANIEL HILLIS is an inventor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, Judge Widney Professor of Engineer...
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Peter Galison - Epistemic Virtues [8.21.19] from 2019-08-21T10:00
PETER GALISON is a science historian; Joseph Pellegrino University Professor and co-founder of the Black Ho...
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George Dyson - AI That Evolves in the Wild [8.14.19] from 2019-08-14T10:00
GEORGE DYSON is a historian of science and technology and author of Darwin Among the Machines and <...
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David Chalmers - The Language of Mind [8.8.19] from 2019-08-08T10:00
DAVID CHALMERS is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of the Center for ...
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Neil Gershenfeld - Morphogenesis for the Design of Design [7.31.19] from 2019-07-31T10:00
NEIL GERSHENFELD is the director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms; founder of the global fab lab netwo...
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Frank Wilczek - Ecology of Intelligence [7.23.19] from 2019-07-23T12:00
FRANK WILCZEK is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT, recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in phys...
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Tom Griffiths - Humans: Doing More With Less [7.16.19] from 2019-07-16T01:00
TOM GRIFFITHS is Henry R. Luce Professor of Information, Technology, Consciousness, and Culture at Princeto...
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Timothy Taylor - Polythetics and the Boeing 737 MAX [7.16.19] from 2019-07-16T01:00
TIMOTHY TAYLOR is a professor of the prehistory of humanity at the University of Vienna, and author of
Alison Gopnik - A Separate Kind of Intelligence [7.10.19] from 2019-07-10T10:00
ALISON GOPNIK is a developmental psychologist at UC Berkeley. Her books include The Philosophical Baby<...
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Robert Axelrod - Collaboration and the Evolution of Disciplines [7.1.19] from 2019-07-01T05:15
ROBERT AXELROD, Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding at the University of Michigan, is ...
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Barbara Tversky - The Geometry of Thought [6.25.19] from 2019-06-25T04:00
BARBARA TVERSKY is Professor Emerita of Psychology, Stanford University, and Professor of Psychology and ...
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Caroline A. Jones - Questioning the Cranial Paradigm [6.19.19] from 2019-06-19T10:00
CAROLINE A. JONES is a professor of art history in the Department of Architecture at MIT and author, mos...
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Freeman Dyson - The Brain Is Full of Maps [6.11.19] from 2019-06-11T10:00
FREEMAN DYSON, emeritus professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, has worked o...
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Andy Clark - Perception As Controlled Hallucination [6.6.19] from 2019-06-06T10:00
ANDY CLARK is professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the University of Sussex and author of Surfing Uncertainty:...
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Stephen Wolfram - Mining the Computational Universe [5.30.19] from 2019-05-30T09:00
STEPHEN WOLFRAM is a scientist, inventor, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. He is the creator ...
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Rodney Brooks - The Cul-de-Sac of the Computational Metaphor [5.13.19] from 2019-05-13T10:00
RODNEY BROOKS is Panasonic Professor of Robotics, emeritus, MIT; former director of the MIT Artificial In...
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Alexander Rose - How to Create an Institution that lasts 10,000 Years [4.24.19] from 2019-04-24T10:30
ALEXANDER ROSE is the executive director of The Long Now Foundation, manager of the 10,000 Year Clock Proj...
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Ian McEwan - Machines Like Me [4.16.19] from 2019-04-16T00:00
IAN MCEWAN is a novelist whose works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He is the recipient of the Man Booker Prize for Amsterdam (1998), the National Book Critics' Cir...
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David Chalmers, Daniel C. Dennett - Is Superintelligence Impossible? [4.10.19] from 2019-04-10T00:00
*David Chalmers *is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of the ...
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Michele Gelfand - Cultural Intelligence [3.12.19] from 2019-03-12T10:00
MICHELE GELFAND is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Culture...
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Freeman Dyson - Biological and Cultural Evolution [2.19.2019] from 2019-02-19T17:00
FREEMAN DYSON, emeritus professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, in addition to fundamental contributions ranging from number theory to quantum electro...
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Lisa Mosconi - Alzheimer's Prevention [2.11.19] from 2019-02-11T10:00
LISA MOSCONI is the director of the Women's Brain Initiative and the associate director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is the aut...
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Susan Schneider - The Future of the Mind [1.28.19] from 2019-01-28T10:00
SUSAN SCHNEIDER holds the Distinguished Scholar chair at the Library of Congress and is the director of the AI, Mind and Society (“AIMS”) Group at the University of Connecticut. The...
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Jonathan Rodden - The Urban-Rural Divide: Why Geography Matters [1.16.19] from 2019-01-16T12:00
JONATHAN RODDEN is a professor in the Political Science Department at Stanford and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. The Conversation: Listen
Elaine Pagels - The Social History of Religion [12.12.18] from 2018-12-12T16:00
ELAINE PAGELS is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author, most recently, of Why Religion?: A Personal Story. The Conversation:
Peter Galison - How Technology Changes Our Concept of the Self [11.20.18] from 2018-11-20T13:00
PETER GALISON is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University and Director of the Collection of Historical Scientific In...
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Karl Sigmund - When the Rule of Law Is Not Working [10.11.18] from 2018-10-11T12:00
KARL SIGMUND is professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna and one of the pioneers of evolutionary game theory. He is the author of Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The V...
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Doyne Farmer - Collective Awareness [10.3.18] from 2018-07-17T10:00
J. DOYNE FARMER is director of the Complexity Economics Programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, professor in the Mathematical Institute at ...
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Brian Hare - Absolute Brain Size Matters [6.28.18] from 2018-06-28T12:00
BRIAN HARE is an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University in North Carolina and founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center. He is the co-author (with Van...
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Andrew Barron - The Connectomic Revolution [6.12.18] from 2018-06-12T15:00
ANDREW BARRON is the Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Deputy Head of the Department of Biological Sciences at Macquarie University. He is a neuroethologist with a parti...
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Nicolas Berggruen - Bonding with Your Algorithm [6.5.18] from 2018-06-05T14:00
Investor and philanthropist NICOLAS BERGGRUEN is the chairman of the Berggruen Institute, and founder of the 21st Century Council, the Council for the Future of Europe, and the Thin...
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Martie Haselton - Sexual Double Standards [5.24.18] from 2018-05-24T10:00
?MARTIE HASELTON is a professor of psychology and communication studies at UCLA and the Institute for Society and Genetics. She is the author of Hormonal: The Hidden Intelligence of...
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Murray Shanahan - The Space of Possible Minds [5.18.18] from 2018-05-18T14:00
MURRAY SHANAHAN is a professor of cognitive robotics at Imperial College London and a senior research scientist at DeepMind.
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Sabine Hossenfelder - Looking in the Wrong Places [4.30.18] from 2018-04-30T17:00
SABINE HOSSENFELDER is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, an independ...
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Mary Catherine Bateson - How To Be a Systems Thinker [4.17.18] from 2018-04-15T21:00
MARY CATHERINE BATESON is a writer and cultural anthropologist. In 2004 she retired from her position as Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason U...
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Kai-Fu Lee - We Are Here To Create [3.26.18] from 2018-03-19T10:15
KAI-FU LEE, the founder of the Beijing-based Sinovation Ventures, is ranked #1 in technology in China by Forbes. Educated as a computer scientist at Columbia and Carnegie Mellon, hi...
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Caroline A. Jones - A Common Sense [3.15.18] from 2018-03-15T17:42:09
CAROLINE A. JONES is professor of art history in the History, Theory, Criticism section of the Department of Architecture at MIT. The Conversation: Listen
George Church - Church Speaks [2.14.18] from 2018-02-14T14:00
GEORGE CHURCH is professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, director of the Personal Genome Project, and co-author (with Ed Regis) of Regenesis. The Conversation: Listen
John Naughton - The State of Informed Bewilderment [1.3.18] from 2018-01-03T13:32:15
JOHN NAUGHTON is a senior research fellow at Cambridge University's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. He is an Internet columnist for the London O...
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Daniel C. Dennett - "A Difference That Makes a Difference" [11.22.17] from 2017-11-17T09:00
DANIEL C. DENNETT is the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is the author, most recently, of _Fro...
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Sandy Pentland - The Human Strategy [10.30.17] from 2017-10-30T15:00
ALEX "SANDY" PENTLAND is a professor at MIT, and director of the MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs. He is a founding member of advisory boards for Google, AT&...
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Rory Sutherland - Things to Hang on Your Mental Mug Tree [7.10.17] from 2017-10-17T15:00
RORY SUTHERLAND is Vice-Chairman, Ogilvy London; Columnist, The Spectator. Rory Rory Sutherland's Edge Bi...
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Tim O'Reilly - Reality is an Activity of the Most August Imagination [10.2.17] from 2017-10-02T09:52:56
TIM O'REILLY is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., and the author of WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us. The Conversation: Listen
Tom Griffiths - Aerodynamics For Cognition [8.21.17] from 2017-08-21T15:00
TOM GRIFFITHS is a professor of psychology and cognitive science and director of the Computational Cognitive Science Lab and the Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the Uni...
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Brian Keating - Shut Up and Measure [10.20.17] from 2017-08-10T09:00
Professor BRIAN KEATING is an astrophysicist with the University of California San Diego’s Department of Physics. He and his team develop instrumentation to study the early universe...
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Tania Lombrozo - Learning By Thinking [7.28.17] from 2017-07-31T09:00
TANIA LOMBROZO is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an affiliate of the Department of Philosophy and a member of the Institute for Cogn...
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Daniel Goleman - Compassionate Systems [6.22.17] from 2017-06-22T16:00
DANIEL GOLEMAN is the New York Times bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence. A psychologist and science journalist, he reported on brain and behavioral research for The New Yo...
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Martin Rees - Curtains For Us All? [5.31.17] from 2017-05-31T13:12:07
LORD MARTIN REES is a Fellow of Trinity College and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. He is the UK's Astronomer Royal and a Past P...
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Venki Ramakrishnan - Soul of a Molecular Machine [5.1.17] from 2017-05-31T12:00
VENKATRAMAN "VENKI" RAMAKRISHNAN is a Nobel Prize-winning biologist whose many scientific contributions include his work on the atomic structure of the ribosome. He is Gro...
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Ross Anderson - The Threat [5.8.17] from 2017-05-06T13:54:12
ROSS ANDERSON is professor of security engineering at Cambridge University, and one of the founders of the field of information security economics. He chairs the Foundation for Info...
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Jonathan Losos: Urban Evolution [3.31.2017] from 2017-03-31T21:00
JONATHAN B. LOSOS is the Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America and Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, and Curator i...
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Chris Anderson: Closing The Loop [3.7.2017] from 2017-03-07T21:00
CHRIS ANDERSON is the CEO of 3D Robotics and founder of DIY Drones. He is the former editor-in-chief of Wired magazine. Listen
Dan Sperber: The Function of Reason [2.22.17] from 2017-02-23T21:00
DAN SPERBER is a Paris-based social and cognitive scientist. He holds an emeritus research professorship at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, an...
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Stuart Russell: Defining Intelligence [2.7.17] from 2017-02-07T21:00
STUART RUSSELL is a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley and coauthor (with Peter Norvig) of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Listen
David Chalmers: The Mind Bleeds Into the World [1.24.17] from 2017-01-24T21:00
DAVID CHALMERS is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and Co-Director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at New York University. He is also Distingui...
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Brian Christian: How Should a Society Be? [12.1.16] from 2016-12-01T21:30
BRIAN CHRISTIAN is the author of The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive, and coauthor (with Tom Griffiths) of Algorithms to Liv...
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Laurie R. Santos: Glitches [11.21.16] from 2016-11-21T21:00
LAURIE R. SANTOS is a professor of psychology at Yale University and the director of its Comparative Cognition Laboratory. Listen
David Rand: The Cost of Cooperationg [11.9.16] from 2016-11-09T21:00
DAVID RAND is an associate professor of psychology, economics, and management at Yale University, and the director of Yale University’s Human Cooperation Laboratory.Listen
Judea Pearl: Engines of Evidence [10.24.16] from 2016-10-24T21:00
JUDEA PEARL, professor of computer science at UCLA, has been at the center of not one but two scientific revolutions. First, in the 1980s, he introduced a new tool to artificial int...
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Monica L. Smith: Infrastructure As Dialogue [9.20.16] from 2016-09-20T21:00
MONICA SMITH is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She holds the Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair in Indian Studies and serves as the director of...
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Seth Lloyd - Quantum Hanky-Panky from 2016-08-22T15:15
SETH LLOYD, Professor, Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Principal Investigator, Research Laboratory of Ele...
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Robert Plomin - Why We're Different [6.29.16] from 2016-06-29T13:00
ROBERT PLOMIN is a professor of behavioral genetics at King's College London and deputy director of the...
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Molly Crockett & Daniel Kahneman - Deontology Or Trustworthiness? [6.16.16] from 2016-06-16T14:00
MOLLY CROCKETT is an associate professor of experimental psychology, fellow of Jesus College, and distingu...
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June Gruber - Misunderstanding Positive Emotion [5.25.16] from 2016-05-25T16:00
JUNE GRUBER is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and director of t...
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Paul Dolan - The Social Construction of Stories from 2016-05-13T16:00
PAUL DOLAN is a professor of behavioral science at the London School of Economics and Political Science and au...
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Gary Marcus - Is Big Data Taking Us Closer to the Deeper Questions in Artificial Intelligence? [5.4.16] from 2016-05-04T12:00
GARY MARCUS is CEO and founder, Geometric Intelligence; professor of psychology, New York University; author,...
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Frank Wilczek - Power Over Nature [4.20.16] from 2016-04-20T12:00
FRANK WILCZEK, currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT, has received many prizes for his ...
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Joshua Knobe and Daniel Kahneman - A Characteristic Difference [4.26.16] from 2016-04-16T13:00
JOSHUA KNOBE is an experimental philosopher and professor of philosophy and cognitive science at Yale Univer...
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George Church - The Augmented Human Being [3.30.16] from 2016-03-30T12:00
GEORGE CHURCH is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and director of the Personal Genome Proj...
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Janna Levin - Sounds of the Skies [3.23.16] from 2016-03-23T17:00
JANNA LEVIN is a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University. She is the aut...
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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein - The Mattering Instinct [3.16.16] from 2016-03-16T16:00
REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN, awarded the 2014 National Humanities Medal by President Obama, i...
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Howard Gardner - Liberal Arts and Sciences in the 21st Century [3.9.16] from 2016-03-03T10:00
HOWARD GARDNER is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard G...
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Stephen Wolfram - AI & The Future Of Civilization [3.1.16] from 2016-03-01T16:00
STEPHEN WOLFRAM, distinguished scientist, inventor, author, and business leader, is Founder & CEO, Wo...
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Ed Boyden - How the Brain is Computing the Mind [2.12.16] from 2016-02-12T16:00
ED BOYDEN is a professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at the MIT Media Lab and th...
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David Reich - The Genomic Ancient DNA Revolution from 2016-02-01T13:00
DAVID REICH is a geneticist and professor in the Department of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School. He is ...
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Richard Nisbett - The Crusade Against Multiple Regression Analysis [1.21.16] from 2016-01-21T14:00
RICHARD NISBETT is a professor of psychology and co-director of the Culture and Cognition Program at the ...
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Gloria Origgi - What Is Reputation? [11.5.15] from 2015-11-05T13:00
GLORIA ORIGGI is a researcher at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and a journalis...
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Jamil Zaki - Choosing Empathy [10.20.15] from 2015-10-20T16:00
JAMIL ZAKI is an assistant professor of psychology at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Soc...
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Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class V Part I [9.22.15] from 2015-09-22T14:00
PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University...
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Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class V Part II [9.22.15] from 2015-09-22T14:00
PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University...
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Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class IV Part II [9.15.15] from 2015-09-15T14:00
PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University...
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Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class III Part II [9.1.15] from 2015-09-01T14:00
PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University...
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Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class III Part I [9.1.15] from 2015-09-01T14:00
PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University...
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Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class II Part II [8.24.15] from 2015-08-24T14:00
PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University...
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Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class II Part I [8.24.15] from 2015-08-24T13:00
PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University...
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Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class I Part II [8.17.15] from 2015-08-17T13:00
PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University...
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Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class I Part I [8.17.15] from 2015-08-17T13:00
PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University...
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John Markoff - The Next Wave [7.16.15] from 2015-07-16T13:00
JOHN MARKOFF is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who covers science and technology for The New York Times. His most recent book is the forthcoming Machines of Loving...
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Priyamvada Natarajan - The Exquisite Role of Dark Matter [6.10.15] from 2015-06-10T11:00
PRIYAMVADA NATARAJAN is a professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University, ...
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Sean Carroll - Layers of Reality [5.28.15] from 2015-05-28T13:00
SEAN CARROLL is a research professor at Caltech and the author of The Particle at the End of the Univers...
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David Christian - We Need a Modern Origin Story: A Big History [5.21.15] from 2015-05-21T13:00
DAVID CHRISTIAN is Professor of History, Macquarie University, Sydney; Author, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. The Conversation: Listen
Peter Coveney - Popper Versus Bacon [5.7.15] from 2015-05-07T13:00
PETER COVENEY holds a chair in Physical Chemistry, and is director of the Centre for Computational Science ...
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Richard Dawkins - This Is My Vision of "Life" [4.30.15] from 2015-04-30T13:00
RICHARD DAWKINS is an evolutionary biologist; Emeritus Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understand...
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Jaan Tallinn - Existential Risk [4.16.15] from 2015-04-16T11:00
JAAN TALLINN is a co-founder of The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at University of Cambridge, UK ...
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Yuval Noah Harari & Daniel Kahneman - Death Is Optional from 2015-03-04T11:00
YUVAL NOAH HARARI, Lecturer, Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of
Neil Gershenfeld - Digital Reality [1.23.15] from 2015-01-23T15:00
NEIL GERSHENFELD is a Physicist and the Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms. He is the autho...
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Chiara Marletto - Formulating Science in Terms of Possible and Impossible Tasks [12.6.14] from 2014-12-06T11:00
CHIARA MARLETTO is a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College and Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the...
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Margaret Levi - Entwined Fates [11.24.14] from 2014-11-24T11:00
MARGARET LEVI is the Director of the Center For Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Professor of ...
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Naomi Eisenberger - Social Pain [9.10.14] from 2014-09-10T11:00
NAOMI EISENBERGER is a professor in the Social Psychology Program at the University of California, Los ...
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Richard Prum - Duck Sex, Aesthetic Evolution, and the Origin of Beauty [9.3.14] from 2014-09-03T12:00
RICHARD PRUM is an evolutionary ornithologist at Yale University, where he is the Curator of Ornithology and...
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Matthew Lieberman - Latitudes of Acceptance [8.22.14] from 2014-08-22T12:15
MATTHEW D. LIEBERMAN is a professor of psychology at UCLA. He is the author of Social: Why Our Br...
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Jonathan Gottschall - The Way We Live Our Lives in Stories [7.28.14] from 2014-07-28T12:00
JONATHAN GOTTSCHALL is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the English Department at Washington & ...
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Steven Pinker - Writing in the 21st Century [6.9.14] from 2014-06-09T12:00
STEVEN PINKER is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He i...
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HeadCon '13 - Daniel Dennett - The De-Darwinizing of Cultural Change [3.4.14] from 2014-03-04T16:00
DANIEL C. DENNETT is a Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co-Director, Center for ...
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HeadCon '13 - Joshua Knobe - Experimental Philosophy & the Notion of the Self from 2014-02-18T16:00
JOSHUA KNOBE is an Experimental Philosopher; Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Yale U...
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HeadCon '13 - David Pizarro - The Failure of Social and Moral Intuitions [2.25.14] from 2014-02-15T16:00
DAVID PIZARRO is Associate Professor of Psychology, Cornell University, specializing in moral judgement. Th...
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Kevin Kelly - The Technium [2.3.14] from 2014-02-03T16:00
KEVIN KELLY is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He helped launch Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive...
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HeadCon '13 - Laurie Santos - What Makes Humans Unique? from 2014-01-23T13:00
LAURIE SANTOS is Associate Professor, Department of Psychology; Director, Comparative Cognition Laborator...
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HeadCon '13 - Joshua Greene - The Role of Brain Imaging in Social Science from 2013-12-16T13:00
JOSHUA GREENE is John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and the director of the M...
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HeadCon '13 - Nicholas Christakis - The Science of Social Connections [12.9.13] from 2013-12-09T15:00
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HeadCon '13 - Fiery Cushman - The Paradox of Automatic Planning [11.25.13] from 2013-11-25T15:00
FIERY CUSHMAN is Assistant Professor, Cognitive, Linguistic, Social Science, Brown University. The Conversa...
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HeadCon '13 - June Gruber - The Scientific Study of Positive Emotion [11.18.13] from 2013-11-18T15:00
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HeadCon '13 - Sendhil Mullainathan - What Big Data Means For Social Science [11.11.13] from 2013-11-11T15:00
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Joshua Greene - Deep Pragmatism [8.30.13] from 2013-08-30T10:00
JOSHUA D. GREENE is the John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and the director o...
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David Moinina Sengeh - Technology & Innovation as a National Development Strategy from 2013-07-12T11:00
DAVID MOININA SENGEH is a doctoral student at the MIT Media Lab, and a researcher in the Lab’s Biome...
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Napoleon Chagnon - Blood Is Their Argument Part II [6.6.13] from 2013-06-06T10:00
NAPOLEON CHAGNON is a renowned anthropologist who is most widely recognized for his study of the Yanomam...
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Napoleon Chagnon - Blood Is Their Argument Part II Discussion [6.6.13] from 2013-06-06T10:00
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Napoleon Chagnon - Blood Is Their Argument Part I Discussion [6.6.13] from 2013-06-06T10:00
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Napoleon Chagnon - Blood Is Their Argument Part I [6.6.13] from 2013-06-06T10:00
NAPOLEON CHAGNON is a renowned anthropologist who is most widely recognized for his study of the Yanomam...
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Lee Smolin - Think About Nature from 2013-05-14T12:00
LEE SMOLIN is a founding and senior faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo,...
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Adam Alter - Disfluency [2.25.13] from 2013-02-25T12:00
ADAM ALTER is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Stern School of Business, NYU. He is the author of Dr...
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