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• 325 | Alvy Ray Smith on Pixar, Pixels, and the Great Digital Convergence (Mon, Aug 18, 2025)
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• 324 | Elizabeth Mynatt on Universities and the Importance of Basic Research (Mon, Aug 11, 2025)
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• AMA | August 2025 (Mon, Aug 04, 2025)
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• 323 | Jacob Barandes on Indivisible Stochastic Quantum Mechanics (Mon, Jul 28, 2025)
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• 322 | Philip Pettit on Language, Agency, Politics, and Freedom (Mon, Jul 21, 2025)
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• 321 | David Tong on Open Questions in Quantum Field Theory (Mon, Jul 14, 2025)
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• AMA | July 2025 (Mon, Jul 07, 2025)
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• 320 | Solo: Complexity and the Universe (Mon, Jun 30, 2025)
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• 319 | Bryan Van Norden on Philosophy From the Rest of the World (Mon, Jun 23, 2025)
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• 318 | Edward Miguel on the Developing Practice of Development Economics (Mon, Jun 16, 2025)
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• 317 | Nicole Rust on Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders (Mon, Jun 09, 2025)
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• AMA | June 2025 (Mon, Jun 02, 2025)
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• 316 | Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper (Mon, May 26, 2025)
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• 315 | Branden Fitelson on the Logic and Use of Probability (Mon, May 19, 2025)
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• 314 | Karen Lloyd on the Deep Underground Biosphere (Mon, May 12, 2025)
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• 313 | Eric Topol on the Changing Face of Medicine and Aging (Mon, May 05, 2025)
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• AMA | May 2025 (Mon, Apr 28, 2025)
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• 312 | Thomas Levenson on the Mutual History of Humans and Germs (Mon, Apr 21, 2025)
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• 311 | Annaka Harris on Whether Consciousness is Fundamental (Mon, Apr 14, 2025)
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• AMA | April 2025 (Mon, Apr 07, 2025)
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• 310 | Marc Kamionkowski on Dark Energy and Cosmic Anomalies (Mon, Mar 31, 2025)
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• 309 | Christof Koch on Consciousness and Integrated Information (Mon, Mar 24, 2025)
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• 308 | Alison Gopnik on Children, AI, and Modes of Thinking (Mon, Mar 17, 2025)
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• AMA | March 2025 (Mon, Mar 10, 2025)
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• 307 | Kevin Peterson on the Theory of Cocktails (Mon, Mar 03, 2025)
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• 306 | Helen Czerski on Our Energetic Oceans (Mon, Feb 24, 2025)
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• 305 | Lilliana Mason on Polarization and Political Psychology (Mon, Feb 17, 2025)
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• Bonus | Cuts to Science Funding and Why They Matter (Wed, Feb 12, 2025)
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• 304 | James Evans on Innovation, Consolidation, and the Science of Science (Mon, Feb 10, 2025)
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• 303 | AMA | February 2025 (Mon, Feb 03, 2025)
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• 303 | James P. Allison on Fighting Cancer with the Immune System (Mon, Jan 27, 2025)
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• 302 | Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution (Mon, Jan 20, 2025)
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• 301 | Tina Eliassi-Rad on Al, Networks, and Epistemic Instability (Mon, Jan 13, 2025)
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• 300 | Solo: Does Time Exist? (Mon, Jan 06, 2025)
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• Holiday Message | Hits and Misses (Mon, Dec 23, 2024)
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• 299 | Michael Wong on Information, Function, and the Origin of Life (Mon, Dec 16, 2024)
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• 298 | Jeff Lichtman on the Wiring Diagram of the Brain (Mon, Dec 09, 2024)
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• AMA | December 2024 (Mon, Dec 02, 2024)
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• 297 | Emily Wilson on Homer, Poetry, and Translation (Mon, Nov 25, 2024)
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• 296 | Brandon Ogbunu on Fitness Seascapes and the Course of Evolution (Mon, Nov 18, 2024)
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• 295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality (Mon, Nov 11, 2024)
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• AMA | November 2024 (Mon, Nov 04, 2024)
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• 294 | Addy Pross on Dynamics, Stability, and Life (Mon, Oct 28, 2024)
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• 293 | Doyne Farmer on Chaos, Crashes, and Economic Complexity (Mon, Oct 21, 2024)
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• 292 | Jonathan Birch on Animal Sentience (Mon, Oct 14, 2024)
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• AMA | October 2024 (Mon, Oct 07, 2024)
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• 291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging (Mon, Sep 30, 2024)
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• 290 | Hahrie Han on Making Multicultural Democracy Work (Mon, Sep 23, 2024)
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• 289 | Cari Cesarotti on the Next Generation of Particle Experiments (Mon, Sep 16, 2024)
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• 288 | Max Richter on the Meaning of Classical Music Today (Mon, Sep 09, 2024)
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• AMA | September 2024 (Mon, Sep 02, 2024)
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• 287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History (Mon, Aug 26, 2024)
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• 286 | Blaise Agüera y Arcas on the Emergence of Replication and Computation (Mon, Aug 19, 2024)
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• 285 | Nate Silver on Prediction, Risk, and Rationality (Mon, Aug 12, 2024)
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• AMA | August 2024 (Mon, Aug 05, 2024)
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• 284 | Doris Tsao on How the Brain Turns Vision Into the World (Mon, Jul 29, 2024)
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• 283 | Daron Acemoglu on Technology, Inequality, and Power (Mon, Jul 22, 2024)
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• 282 | Joel David Hamkins on Puzzles of Reality and Infinity (Mon, Jul 15, 2024)
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• Ask Me Anything | July 2024 (Mon, Jul 08, 2024)
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• 281 | Samir Okasha on the Philosophy of Agency and Evolution (Mon, Jul 01, 2024)
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• 280 | François Chollet on Deep Learning and the Meaning of Intelligence (Mon, Jun 24, 2024)
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• 279 | Ellen Langer on Mindfulness and the Body (Mon, Jun 17, 2024)
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• 278 | Kieran Healy on the Technology of Ranking People (Mon, Jun 10, 2024)
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• AMA | June 2024 (Mon, Jun 03, 2024)
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• 277 | Cumrun Vafa on the Universe According to String Theory (Mon, May 27, 2024)
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• 276 | Gavin Schmidt on Measuring, Predicting, and Protecting Our Climate (Mon, May 20, 2024)
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• 275 | Solo: Quantum Fields, Particles, Forces, and Symmetries (Mon, May 13, 2024)
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• AMA | May 2024 (Mon, May 06, 2024)
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• 274 | Gizem Gumuskaya on Building Robots from Human Cells (Mon, Apr 29, 2024)
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• 273 | Stefanos Geroulanos on the Invention of Prehistory (Mon, Apr 22, 2024)
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• 272 | Leslie Valiant on Learning and Educability in Computers and People (Mon, Apr 15, 2024)
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• AMA | April 2024 (Mon, Apr 08, 2024)
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• 271 | Claudia de Rham on Modifying General Relativity (Mon, Apr 01, 2024)
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• 270 | Solo: The Coming Transition in How Humanity Lives (Mon, Mar 25, 2024)
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• 269 | Sahar Heydari Fard on Complexity, Justice, and Social Dynamics (Mon, Mar 18, 2024)
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• AMA | March 2024 (Mon, Mar 11, 2024)
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• 268 | Matt Strassler on Relativity, Fields, and the Language of Reality (Mon, Mar 04, 2024)
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• 267 | Benjamin Breen on Margaret Mead, Psychedelics, and Utopia (Mon, Feb 26, 2024)
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• 266 | Christoph Adami on How Information Makes Sense of Biology (Mon, Feb 19, 2024)
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• AMA | February 2024 (Mon, Feb 12, 2024)
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• 265 | John Skrentny on How the Economy Mistreats STEM Workers (Mon, Feb 05, 2024)
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• 264 | Sabine Stanley on What's Inside Planets (Mon, Jan 29, 2024)
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• 263 | Chris Quigg on Symmetry and the Birth of the Standard Model (Mon, Jan 22, 2024)
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• 262 | Eric Schwitzgebel on the Weirdness of the World (Mon, Jan 15, 2024)
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• 261 | Sanjana Curtis on the Origins of the Elements (Mon, Jan 08, 2024)
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• 260 | Ricard Solé on the Space of Cognitions (Mon, Jan 01, 2024)
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• Holiday Message: Reflections on Immortality (Mon, Dec 18, 2023)
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• 259 | Adam Frank on What Aliens Might Be Like (Mon, Dec 11, 2023)
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• AMA | December 2023 (Mon, Dec 04, 2023)
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• 258 | Solo: AI Thinks Different (Mon, Nov 27, 2023)
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• 257 | Derek Guy on the Theory and Practice of Dressing Well (Mon, Nov 20, 2023)
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• 256 | Kelly and Zach Weinersmith on Building Cities on the Moon and Mars (Mon, Nov 13, 2023)
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• AMA | November 2023 (Mon, Nov 06, 2023)
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• 255 | Michael Muthukrishna on Developing a Theory of Everyone (Mon, Oct 30, 2023)
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• 254 | William Egginton on Kant, Heisenberg, and Borges (Mon, Oct 23, 2023)
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• 253 | David Deutsch on Science, Complexity, and Explanation (Mon, Oct 16, 2023)
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• AMA | October 2023 (Mon, Oct 09, 2023)
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• 252 | Hannah Ritchie on Keeping Hope for the Planet Alive (Mon, Oct 02, 2023)
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• 251 | Rosemary Braun on Uncovering Patterns in Biological Complexity (Mon, Sep 25, 2023)
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• 250 | Brendan Nyhan on Navigating the Information Ecosystem (Mon, Sep 18, 2023)
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• 249 | Peter Godfrey-Smith on Sentience and Octopus Minds (Mon, Sep 11, 2023)
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• AMA | September 2023 (Mon, Sep 04, 2023)
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• 248 | Yejin Choi on AI and Common Sense (Mon, Aug 28, 2023)
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• 247 | Samuel Bowles on Economics, Cooperation, and Inequality (Mon, Aug 21, 2023)
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• 246 | David Stuart on Time and Science in Maya Civilization (Mon, Aug 14, 2023)
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• AMA | August 2023 (Mon, Aug 07, 2023)
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• 245 | Solo: The Crisis in Physics (Mon, Jul 31, 2023)
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• 244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Explanation (Mon, Jul 24, 2023)
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• 243 | Joseph Silk on Science on the Moon (Mon, Jul 17, 2023)
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• 242 | David Krakauer on Complexity, Agency, and Information (Mon, Jul 10, 2023)
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• AMA | July 2023 (Mon, Jul 03, 2023)
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• 241 | Tim Maudlin on Locality, Hidden Variables, and Quantum Foundations (Mon, Jun 26, 2023)
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• 240 | Andrew Pontzen on Simulations and the Universe (Mon, Jun 19, 2023)
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• 239 | Brian Lowery on the Social Self (Mon, Jun 12, 2023)
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• AMA | June 2023 (Mon, Jun 05, 2023)
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• 238 | Scott Shapiro on the Technology and Philosophy of Hacking (Mon, May 29, 2023)
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• 237 | Brooke Harrington on Offshore Wealth as a Complex System (Mon, May 22, 2023)
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• 236 | Thomas Hertog on Quantum Cosmology and Hawking's Final Theory (Mon, May 15, 2023)
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• AMA | May 2023 (Mon, May 08, 2023)
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• 235 | Andy Clark on the Extended and Predictive Mind (Mon, May 01, 2023)
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• 234 | Tobias Warnecke on Cellular Structure and Evolution (Mon, Apr 24, 2023)
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• 233 | Hugo Mercier on Reasoning and Skepticism (Mon, Apr 17, 2023)
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• 232 | Amy Finkelstein on Adverse Selection and Hidden Information (Mon, Apr 10, 2023)
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• Ask Me Anything | April 2023 (Mon, Apr 03, 2023)
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• 231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism (Mon, Mar 27, 2023)
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• 230 | Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks (Mon, Mar 20, 2023)
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• 229 | Nita Farahany on Ethics, Law, and Neurotechnology (Mon, Mar 13, 2023)
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• AMA | March 2023 (Mon, Mar 06, 2023)
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• 228 | Skye Cleary on Existentialism and Authenticity (Mon, Feb 27, 2023)
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• 227 | Molly Crockett on the Psychology of Morality (Mon, Feb 20, 2023)
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• 226 | Johanna Hoffman on Speculative Futures of Cities (Mon, Feb 13, 2023)
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• AMA | February 2023 (Mon, Feb 06, 2023)
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• 225 | Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency (Mon, Jan 30, 2023)
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• 224 | Edward Tufte on Data, Design, and Truth (Mon, Jan 23, 2023)
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• 223 | Tania Lombrozo on What Explanations Are (Mon, Jan 16, 2023)
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• 222 | Andrew Strominger on Quantum Gravity and the Real World (Mon, Jan 09, 2023)
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• 221 | Adam Bulley on How Mental Time Travel Makes Us Human (Mon, Jan 02, 2023)
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• Holiday Message 2022: Thinking Really Slowly (Mon, Dec 19, 2022)
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• 220 | Lara Buchak on Risk and Rationality (Mon, Dec 12, 2022)
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• AMA | December 2022 (Mon, Dec 05, 2022)
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• 219 | Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn on the Neuroscience and Philosophy of Curiosity (Mon, Nov 28, 2022)
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• 218 | Raphael Bousso on Black Holes and the Holographic Universe (Mon, Nov 21, 2022)
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• 217 | Margaret Levi on Moral Political Economy (Mon, Nov 14, 2022)
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• AMA | November 2022 (Mon, Nov 07, 2022)
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• 216 | John Allen Paulos on Numbers, Narratives, and Numeracy (Mon, Oct 31, 2022)
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• 215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld (Mon, Oct 24, 2022)
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• 214 | Antonio Padilla on Large Numbers and the Scope of the Universe (Mon, Oct 17, 2022)
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• AMA | October 2022 (Mon, Oct 10, 2022)
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• 213 | Timiebi Aganaba on Law and Governance in Space (Mon, Oct 03, 2022)
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• 212 | Chiara Mingarelli on Searching for Black Holes with Pulsars (Mon, Sep 26, 2022)
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• 211 | Solo: Secrets of Einstein's Equation (Mon, Sep 19, 2022)
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• 210 | Randall Munroe on Imagining What If...? (Mon, Sep 12, 2022)
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• 209 | Brad DeLong on Why the 20th Century Fell Short of Utopia (Mon, Sep 05, 2022)
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• AMA | September 2022 (Mon, Aug 29, 2022)
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• 208 | Rick Beato on the Theory of Popular Music (Mon, Aug 22, 2022)
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• 207 | William MacAskill on Maximizing Good in the Present and Future (Mon, Aug 15, 2022)
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• 206 | Simon Conway Morris on Evolution, Convergence, and Theism (Mon, Aug 08, 2022)
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• AMA | August 2022 (Mon, Aug 01, 2022)
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• 205 | John Quiggin on Interest Rates and the Information Economy (Mon, Jul 25, 2022)
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• 204 | John Asher Johnson on Hunting for Exoplanets (Mon, Jul 18, 2022)
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• 203 | N.J. Enfield on Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Not Scientists (Mon, Jul 11, 2022)
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• AMA | July 2022 (Mon, Jul 04, 2022)
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• 202 | Andrew Papachristos on the Network Theory of Gun Violence (Mon, Jun 27, 2022)
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• 201 | Ed Yong on How Animals Sense the World (Mon, Jun 20, 2022)
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• AMA | June 2022 (Mon, Jun 13, 2022)
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• 200 | Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse (Mon, Jun 06, 2022)
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• 199 | Elizabeth Cohen on Time and Other Political Values (Mon, May 30, 2022)
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• 198 | Nick Lane on Powering Biology (Mon, May 23, 2022)
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• 197 | Catherine Brinkley on the Science of Cities (Mon, May 16, 2022)
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• AMA | May 2022 (Thu, May 12, 2022)
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• 196 | Judea Pearl on Cause and Effect (Mon, May 09, 2022)
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• 195 | Richard Dawkins on Flight and Other Evolutionary Achievements (Mon, May 02, 2022)
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• 194 | Frans de Waal on Culture and Gender in Primates (Mon, Apr 25, 2022)
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• 193 | Daniels on Everything, Everywhere, All at Once (Mon, Apr 18, 2022)
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• AMA | April 2022 (Thu, Apr 14, 2022)
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• 192 | Nicole Yunger Halpern on Quantum Steampunk Thermodynamics (Mon, Apr 11, 2022)
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• 191 | Jane McGonigal on How to Imagine the Future (Mon, Apr 04, 2022)
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• 190 | Lea Goentoro on Regrowing Limbs (Mon, Mar 28, 2022)
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• 189 | Brian Klaas on Power and the Temptation of Corruption (Mon, Mar 21, 2022)
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• AMA | March 2022 (Thu, Mar 17, 2022)
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• 188 | Arik Kershenbaum on What Aliens Will Be Like (Mon, Mar 14, 2022)
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• 187 | Andrew Leigh on the Politics of Looming Disasters (Mon, Mar 07, 2022)
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• 186 | Sherry Turkle on How Technology Affects Our Humanity (Mon, Feb 28, 2022)
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• 185 | Arvid Ågren on the Gene’s-Eye View of Evolution (Mon, Feb 21, 2022)
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• 184 | Gary Marcus on Artificial Intelligence and Common Sense (Mon, Feb 14, 2022)
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• AMA | February 2022 (Thu, Feb 10, 2022)
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• 183 | Michael Dine on Supersymmetry, Anthropics, and the Future of Particle Physics (Mon, Feb 07, 2022)
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• 182 | Sally Haslanger on Social Construction and Critical Theory (Mon, Jan 31, 2022)
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• 181 | Peter Dodds on Quantifying the Shape of Stories (Mon, Jan 24, 2022)
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• 180 | Camilla Pang on Instructions for Being Human (Mon, Jan 17, 2022)
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• 179 | David Reich on Genetics and Ancient Humanity (Mon, Jan 10, 2022)
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• 178 | Jody Azzouni on What Is and Isn't Real (Mon, Jan 03, 2022)
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• Holiday Message 2021 | On Disciplines & Cocktails (Mon, Dec 20, 2021)
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• AMA | December 2021 (Wed, Dec 15, 2021)
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• 177 | Monika Schleier-Smith on Cold Atoms and Emergent Spacetime (Mon, Dec 13, 2021)
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• 176 | Joshua Greene on Morality, Psychology, and Trolley Problems (Mon, Dec 06, 2021)
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• 175 | William Ratcliff on Multicellularity, Physics, and Evolution (Mon, Nov 29, 2021)
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• 174 | Tai-Danae Bradley on Algebra, Topology, Language, and Entropy (Mon, Nov 22, 2021)
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• AMA | November 2021 (Wed, Nov 17, 2021)
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• 173 | Sylvia Earle on the Oceans, the Planet, and People (Mon, Nov 15, 2021)
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• 172 | David Goyer on Televising the Fall of the Galactic Empire (Mon, Nov 08, 2021)
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• 171 | Christopher Mims on Our Interconnected Industrial Ecology (Mon, Nov 01, 2021)
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• 170 | Priya Natarajan on Galaxies, Black Holes, and Cosmic Anomalies (Mon, , )( Oct 25, 2021)
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• 169 | C. Thi Nguyen on Games, Art, Values, and Agency (Mon, Oct 18, 2021)
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• AMA | October 2021 (Thu, Oct 14, 2021)
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• 168 | Anil Seth on Emergence, Information, and Consciousness (Mon, Oct 11, 2021)
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• 167 | Chiara Marletto on Constructor Theory, Physics, and Possibility (Mon, Oct 04, 2021)
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• 166 | Betül Kaçar on Paleogenomics and Ancient Life (Mon, Sep 27, 2021)
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• 165 | Kathryn Paige Harden on Genetics, Luck, and Fairness (Mon, Sep 20, 2021)
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• AMA | September 2021 (Thu, Sep 16, 2021)
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• 164 | Herbert Gintis on Game Theory, Evolution, and Social Rationality (Mon, Sep 13, 2021)
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• 163 | Nigel Goldenfeld on Phase Transitions, Criticality, and Biology (Mon, Sep 06, 2021)
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• 162 | Leidy Klotz on Our Resistance to Subtractive Change (Mon, Aug 30, 2021)
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• 161 | W. Brian Arthur on Complexity Economics (Mon, Aug 23, 2021)
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• 160 | Edward Slingerland on Confucianism, Daoism, and Wu Wei (Mon, Aug 16, 2021)
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• AMA | August 2021 (Thu, Aug 12, 2021)
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• 159 | Mari Ruti on Lack, Love, and Psychoanalysis (Mon, Aug 09, 2021)
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• 158 | David Wallace on the Arrow of Time (Mon, Aug 02, 2021)
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• 157 | Elizabeth Strychalski on Synthetic Cells and the Rules of Biology (Mon, Jul 26, 2021)
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• 156 | Catherine D’Ignazio on Data, Objectivity, and Bias (Mon, Jul 19, 2021)
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• 155 | Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental Physics (Mon, Jul 12, 2021)
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• AMA | July 2021 (Fri, Jul 09, 2021)
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• 154 | Reza Aslan on Religion, Metaphor, and Meaning (Mon, Jul 05, 2021)
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• 153 | John Preskill on Quantum Computers and What They’re Good For (Mon, Jun 28, 2021)
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• 152 | Charis Kubrin on Criminology, Incarceration, and Hip-Hop (Mon, Jun 21, 2021)
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• 151 | Jordan Ellenberg on the Mathematics of Political Boundaries (Mon, Jun 14, 2021)
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• AMA | June 2021 (Thu, Jun 10, 2021)
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• 150 | Simon DeDeo on How Explanations Work and Why They Sometimes Fail (Mon, Jun 07, 2021)
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• 149 | Lee Smolin on Time, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality (Mon, May 31, 2021)
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• 148 | Henry Farrell on Democracy as a Problem-Solving Mechanism (Mon, May 24, 2021)
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• 147 | Rachel Laudan on Cuisine, Culture, and Empire (Mon, May 17, 2021)
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• AMA | May 2021 (Thu, May 13, 2021)
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• 146 | Emily Riehl on Topology, Categories, and the Future of Mathematics (Mon, May 10, 2021)
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• 145 | Niall Ferguson on Histories, Networks, and Catastrophes (Mon, May 03, 2021)
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• 144 | Solo: Are We Moving Beyond the Standard Model? (Mon, Apr 26, 2021)
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• 143 | Julia Galef on Openness, Bias, and Rationality (Mon, Apr 19, 2021)
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• AMA | April 2021 (Wed, Apr 14, 2021)
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• 142 | Charlie Jane Anders on Stories and How to Write Them (Mon, Apr 12, 2021)
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• 141 | Zeynep Tufekci on Information and Attention in a Networked World (Mon, Apr 05, 2021)
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• 140 | Dean Buonomano on Time, Reality, and the Brain (Mon, Mar 29, 2021)
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• 139 | Elizabeth Anderson on Equality, Work, and Ideology (Mon, Mar 22, 2021)
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• 138 | Daryl Morey on Analytics, Psychology, and Basketball (Mon, Mar 15, 2021)
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• AMA | March 2021 (Wed, Mar 10, 2021)
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• 137 | Justin Clarke-Doane on Mathematics, Morality, Objectivity, and Reality (Mon, Mar 08, 2021)
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• 136 | Roderick Graham on Cyberspace, Race, and Cultural Conservatism (Mon, Mar 01, 2021)
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• 135 | Shadi Bartsch on Plato, Vergil, Confucius, and Modernity (Mon, Feb 22, 2021)
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• AMA | February 2021 (Wed, Feb 17, 2021)
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• 134 | Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do (Mon, Feb 15, 2021)
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• 133 | Ziya Tong on Realities We Don't See (Mon, Feb 08, 2021)
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• Bonus | AIP Oral History Interview (Thu, Feb 04, 2021)
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• 132 | Michael Levin on Growth, Form, Information, and the Self (Mon, Feb 01, 2021)
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• 131 | Avi Loeb on Taking Aliens Seriously (Mon, Jan 25, 2021)
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• 130 | Frank Wilczek on the Present and Future of Fundamental Physics (Mon, Jan 18, 2021)
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• 129 | Solo: Democracy in America (Mon, Jan 11, 2021)
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• 128 | Joseph Henrich on the Weirdness of the West (Mon, Jan 04, 2021)
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• Holiday Message 2020 | The Screwy Universe (Mon, Dec 21, 2020)
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• 127 | Erich Jarvis on Language, Birds, and People (Mon, Dec 14, 2020)
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• AMA | December 2020 (Wed, Dec 09, 2020)
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• 126 | David Stasavage on the Origin and History of Democracy (Mon, Dec 07, 2020)
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• 125 | David Haig on the Evolution of Meaning from Darwin to Derrida (Mon, Nov 30, 2020)
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• 124 | Solo: How Time Travel Could and Should Work (Mon, Nov 23, 2020)
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• AMA | November 2020 (Fri, Nov 20, 2020)
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• 123 | Lisa Feldman Barrett on Emotions, Actions, and the Brain (Mon, Nov 16, 2020)
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• 122 | David Eagleman on Tapping Into the Livewired Brain (Mon, Nov 09, 2020)
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• 121 | Cornel West on What Democracy Is and Should Be (Mon, Nov 02, 2020)
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• 120 | Jeremy England on Biology, Thermodynamics, and the Bible (Mon, Oct 26, 2020)
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• 119 | Musa al-Gharbi on the Value of Intellectual Diversity (Mon, Oct 19, 2020)
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• 118 | Adam Riess on the Expansion of the Universe and a Crisis in Cosmology (Mon, Oct 12, 2020)
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• 117 | Sean B. Carroll on Randomness and the Course of Evolution (Mon, Oct 05, 2020)
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• 116 | Teresa Bejan on Free Speech, Civility, and Toleration (Mon, Sep 28, 2020)
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• 115 | Netta Engelhardt on Black Hole Information, Wormholes, and Quantum Gravity (Mon, Sep 21, 2020)
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• 114 | Angela Chen on Asexuality in a Sex-Preoccupied World (Mon, Sep 14, 2020)
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• 113 | Cailin O'Connor on Game Theory, Evolution, and the Origins of Unfairness (Mon, Sep 07, 2020)
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• 112 | Fyodor Urnov on Gene Editing, CRISPR, and Human Engineering (Mon, Aug 31, 2020)
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• 111 | Nick Bostrom on Anthropic Selection and Living in a Simulation (Mon, Aug 24, 2020)
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• 110 | Neil Johnson on Complexity, Conflict, and Infodemiology (Mon, Aug 17, 2020)
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• 109 | Jason Torchinsky on Our Self-Driving Future (Mon, Aug 10, 2020)
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• 108 | Carl Bergstrom on Information, Disinformation, and Bullshit (Mon, Aug 03, 2020)
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• 107 | Russ Shafer-Landau on the Reality of Morality (Mon, Jul 27, 2020)
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• 106 | Stuart Bartlett on What "Life" Means (Mon, Jul 20, 2020)
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• 105 | Ann-Sophie Barwich on the Science and Philosophy of Smell (Mon, Jul 13, 2020)
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• 104 | David Rosen and Scott Miles on the Neuroscience of Music and Creativity (Mon, Jul 06, 2020)
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• 103 | J. Kenji López-Alt on Cooking As and With Science (Mon, Jun 29, 2020)
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• 102 | Maria Konnikova on Poker, Psychology, and Reason (Mon, Jun 22, 2020)
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• 101 | David Baltimore on the Mysteries of Viruses (Mon, Jun 15, 2020)
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• 100 | Solo | Life and Its Meaning (Mon, Jun 08, 2020)
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• 99 | Scott Aaronson on Complexity, Computation, and Quantum Gravity (Mon, Jun 01, 2020)
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• 98 | Olga Khazan on Living and Flourishing While Being Weird (Mon, May 25, 2020)
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• 97 | John Danaher on Our Coming Automated Utopia (Mon, May 18, 2020)
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• 96 | Lina Necib on What and Where the Dark Matter Is (Mon, May 11, 2020)
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• 95 | Liam Kofi Bright on Knowledge, Truth, and Science (Mon, May 04, 2020)
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• 94 | Stuart Russell on Making Artificial Intelligence Compatible with Humans (Mon, Apr 27, 2020)
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• 93 | Rae Wynn-Grant on Bears, Humans, and Other Predators (Mon, Apr 20, 2020)
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• 92 | Kevin Hand on Life Elsewhere in the Solar System (Mon, Apr 13, 2020)
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• 91 | Scott Barry Kaufman on the Psychology of Transcendence (Mon, Apr 06, 2020)
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• 90 | David Kaiser on Science, Money, and Power (Mon, Mar 30, 2020)
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• 89 | Lera Boroditsky on Language, Thought, Space, and Time (Mon, Mar 23, 2020)
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• Tara Smith on Coronavirus, Pandemics, and What We Can Do (Wed, Mar 18, 2020)
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• 88 | Neil Shubin on Evolution, Genes, and Dramatic Transitions (Mon, Mar 16, 2020)
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• 87 | Karl Friston on Brains, Predictions, and Free Energy (Mon, Mar 09, 2020)
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• 86 | Martin Rees on Threats to Humanity, Prospects for Posthumanity, and Life in the Universe (Mon, Mar 02, 2020)
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• 85 | L.A. Paul on Transformative Experiences and Your Future Selves (Mon, Feb 24, 2020)
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• 84 | Suresh Naidu on Capitalism, Monopsony, and Inequality (Mon, Feb 17, 2020)
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• 83 | Kwame Anthony Appiah on Identity, Stories, and Cosmopolitanism (Mon, Feb 10, 2020)
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• 82 | Robin Carhart-Harris on Psychedelics and the Brain (Mon, Feb 03, 2020)
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• 81 | Ezra Klein on Politics, Polarization, and Identity (Mon, Jan 27, 2020)
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• 80 | Jenann Ismael on Connecting Physics to the World of Experience (Mon, Jan 20, 2020)
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• 79 | Sara Imari Walker on Information and the Origin of Life (Mon, Jan 13, 2020)
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• 78 | Daniel Dennett on Minds, Patterns, and the Scientific Image (Mon, Jan 06, 2020)
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• Holiday Message 2019: On Publishing Books (Sun, Dec 22, 2019)
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• 77 | Azra Raza on The Way We Should Fight Cancer (Mon, Dec 16, 2019)
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• 76 | Ned Hall on Possible Worlds and the Laws of Nature (Mon, Dec 09, 2019)
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• 75 | Max Tegmark on Reality, Simulation, and the Multiverse (Mon, Dec 02, 2019)
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• 74 | Stephen Greenblatt on Stories, History, and Cultural Poetics (Mon, Nov 25, 2019)
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• 73 | Grimes (c) on Music, Creativity, and Digital Personae (Mon, Nov 18, 2019)
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• 72 | César Hidalgo on Information in Societies, Economies, and the Universe (Mon, Nov 11, 2019)
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• 71 | Philip Goff on Consciousness Everywhere (Mon, Nov 04, 2019)
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• 70 | Katie Mack on How the Universe Will End (Mon, Oct 28, 2019)
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• 69 | Cory Doctorow on Technology, Monopoly, and the Future of the Internet (Mon, Oct 21, 2019)
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• 68 | Melanie Mitchell on Artificial Intelligence and the Challenge of Common Sense (Mon, Oct 14, 2019)
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• 67 | Kate Jeffery on Entropy, Complexity, and Evolution (Mon, Oct 07, 2019)
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• 66 | Will Wilkinson on Partisan Polarization and the Urban/Rural Divide (Mon, Sep 30, 2019)
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• 65 | Michael Mann on Why Our Climate Is Changing and How We Know (Mon, Sep 23, 2019)
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• 64 | Ramez Naam on Renewable Energy and an Optimistic Future (Mon, Sep 16, 2019)
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• 63 | Solo -- Finding Gravity Within Quantum Mechanics (Mon, Sep 09, 2019)
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• 62 | Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Societies and People (Mon, Sep 02, 2019)
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• 61 | Quassim Cassam on Intellectual Vices and What to Do About Them (Mon, Aug 26, 2019)
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• 60 | Lynne Kelly on Memory Palaces, Ancient and Modern (Mon, Aug 19, 2019)
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• 59 | Adam Becker on the Curious History of Quantum Mechanics (Mon, Aug 12, 2019)
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• 58 | Seth MacFarlane on Using Science Fiction to Explore Humanity (Mon, Aug 05, 2019)
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• 57 | Astra Taylor on the Promise and Challenge of Democracy (Mon, Jul 29, 2019)
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• 56 | Kate Adamala on Creating Synthetic Life (Mon, Jul 22, 2019)
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• 55 | A Conversation with Rob Reid on Quantum Mechanics and Many Worlds (Mon, Jul 15, 2019)
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• 54 | Indre Viskontas on Music and the Brain (Mon, Jul 08, 2019)
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• 53 | Solo -- On Morality and Rationality (Mon, Jul 01, 2019)
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• 52 | Frank Lantz on the Logic and Emotion of Games (Mon, Jun 24, 2019)
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• 51 | Anthony Aguirre on Cosmology, Zen, Entropy, and Information (Mon, Jun 17, 2019)
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• 50 | Patricia Churchland on Conscience, Morality, and the Brain (Mon, Jun 10, 2019)
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• 49 | Nicholas Christakis on Humanity, Biology, and What Makes Us Good (Mon, Jun 03, 2019)
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• 48 | Marq de Villiers on Hell and Damnation (Mon, May 27, 2019)
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• 47 | Adam Rutherford on Humans, Animals, and Life in General (Mon, May 20, 2019)
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• 46 | Kate Darling on Our Connections with Robots (Mon, May 13, 2019)
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• 45 | Leonard Susskind on Quantum Information, Quantum Gravity, and Holography (Mon, May 06, 2019)
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• 44 | Antonio Damasio on Feelings, Thoughts, and the Evolution of Humanity (Mon, Apr 29, 2019)
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• 43 | Matthew Luczy on the Pleasures of Wine (Mon, Apr 22, 2019)
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• 42 | Natalya Bailey on Navigating Earth Orbit and Beyond (Mon, Apr 15, 2019)
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• 41 | Steven Strogatz on Synchronization, Networks, and the Emergence of Complex Behavior (Mon, Apr 08, 2019)
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• 40 | Adrienne Mayor on Gods and Robots in Ancient Mythology (Mon, Apr 01, 2019)
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• 39 | Malcolm MacIver on Sensing, Consciousness, and Imagination (Mon, Mar 25, 2019)
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• 38 | Alan Lightman on Transcendence, Science, and a Naturalist’s Sense of Meaning (Mon, Mar 18, 2019)
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• 37 | Edward Watts on the End of the Roman Republic and Lessons for Democracy (Mon, Mar 11, 2019)
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• 36 | David Albert on Quantum Measurement and the Problems with Many-Worlds (Mon, Mar 04, 2019)
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• 35 | Jessica Yellin on The Changing Ways We Get Our News (Mon, Feb 25, 2019)
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• 34 | Paul Bloom on Empathy, Rationality, Morality, and Cruelty (Mon, Feb 18, 2019)
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• 33 | James Ladyman on Reality, Metaphysics, and Complexity (Mon, Feb 11, 2019)
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• 32 | Naomi Oreskes on Climate Change and the Distortion of Scientific Facts (Mon, Feb 04, 2019)
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• 31 | Brian Greene on the Multiverse, Inflation, and the String Theory Landscape (Mon, Jan 28, 2019)
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• 30 | Derek Leben on Ethics for Robots and Artificial Intelligences (Mon, Jan 21, 2019)
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• 29 | Raychelle Burks on the Chemistry of Murder (Mon, Jan 14, 2019)
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• 28 | Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Consciousness, and the Universe (Mon, Jan 07, 2019)
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• Holiday Message 2018 (Mon, Dec 24, 2018)
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• 27 | Janna Levin on Black Holes, Chaos, and the Narrative of Science (Mon, Dec 17, 2018)
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• 26 | Ge Wang on Artful Design, Computers, and Music (Mon, Dec 10, 2018)
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• 25 | David Chalmers on Consciousness, the Hard Problem, and Living in a Simulation (Mon, Dec 03, 2018)
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• 24 | Kip Thorne on Gravitational Waves, Time Travel, and Interstellar (Mon, Nov 26, 2018)
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• 23 | Lisa Aziz-Zadeh on Embodied Cognition, Mirror Neurons, and Empathy (Mon, Nov 19, 2018)
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• 22 | Joe Walston on Conservation, Urbanization, and the Way We Live on Earth (Mon, Nov 12, 2018)
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• 21 | Alex Rosenberg on Naturalism, History, and Theory of Mind (Mon, Nov 05, 2018)
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• 20 | Scott Derrickson on Cinema, Blockbusters, Horror, and Mystery (Mon, Oct 29, 2018)
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• 19 | Tyler Cowen on Maximizing Growth and Thinking for the Future (Mon, Oct 22, 2018)
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• 18 | Clifford Johnson on What's So Great About Superstring Theory (Mon, Oct 15, 2018)
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• 17 | Annalee Newitz on Science, Fiction, Economics, and Neurosis (Mon, Oct 08, 2018)
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• 16 | Coleen Murphy on Aging, Biology, and the Future (Mon, Oct 01, 2018)
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• 15 | David Poeppel on Thought, Language, and How to Understand the Brain (Sat, Sep 08, 2018)
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• 14 | Alta Charo on Bioethics and the Law (Sat, Sep 08, 2018)
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• 13 | Neha Narula on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of the Internet (Sat, Sep 08, 2018)
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• 12 | Wynton Marsalis on Jazz, Time, and America (Tue, Sep 04, 2018)
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• 11 | Mike Brown on Killing Pluto and Replacing It with Planet 9 (Mon, Aug 27, 2018)
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• 10 | Megan Rosenbloom on the Death Positive Movement (Mon, Aug 20, 2018)
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• 9 | Solo -- Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing? (Mon, Aug 13, 2018)
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• 8 | Carl Zimmer on Heredity, DNA, and Editing Genes (Mon, Aug 06, 2018)
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• 7 | Yascha Mounk on Threats to Liberal Democracy (Mon, Jul 30, 2018)
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• 6 | Liv Boeree on Poker, Aliens, and Thinking in Probabilities (Mon, Jul 23, 2018)
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• 5 | Geoffrey West on Networks, Scaling, and the Pace of Life (Mon, Jul 16, 2018)
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• 4 | Anthony Pinn on Humanism, Theology, and the Black Community (Thu, Jul 12, 2018)
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• 3 | Alice Dreger on Sexuality, Truth, and Justice (Wed, Jul 11, 2018)
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• 2 | Carlo Rovelli on Quantum Mechanics, Spacetime, and Reality (Tue, Jul 10, 2018)
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• 1 | Carol Tavris on Mistakes, Justification, and Cognitive Dissonance (Wed, Jul 04, 2018)
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• Welcome to the Mindscape Podcast! (Sun, Jul 01, 2018)
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