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SCIENCE IS NOT ABOUT CERTAINTY: A PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS
A Conversation with
Carlo Rovelli
[5.30.12]
TOPIC:
UNIVERSE
Carlo Rovelli
ESSENTIALISM
A Conversation with
Bruce Hood
[5.17.12]
TOPIC:
MIND
Paul Bloom
,
David M. Eagleman
,
Elizabeth Spelke
,
Richard H. Thaler
,
Daniel Kahneman
,
Pascal Boyer
,
Laurie R. Santos
TESTOSTERONE ON MY MIND AND IN MY BRAIN
A Conversation With
Simon Baron - Cohen
[4.30.12]
TOPIC:
LIFE
Philip Campbell
,
Brian Eno
,
Seirian Sumner
,
Tom Standage
,
Armand Marie Leroi
,
Simone Schnall
,
Geoffrey Carr
,
Tom Stoppard
,
Richard Wentworth
,
Marcus Du Sautoy
A CULTURAL HISTORY OF PHYSICS
An excerpt from a new book by
Karoly Simonyi
[4.9.12]
TOPIC:
CULTURE
George Dyson
,
John Brockman
Freeman Dyson
,
Charles Simonyi
A UNIVERSE OF SELF-REPLICATING CODE
George Dyson
[3.26.12]
TOPIC:
TECHNOLOGY
Stewart Brand
,
Nicholas G. Carr
,
George Dyson
SCIENCE IS THE ONLY NEWS
George Dyson
,
Brian Eno
,
Daniel L. Everett
,
Sam Harris
,
Hans Ulrich Obrist
,
Dimitar D. Sasselov
,
Jennifer Jacquet
,
Christopher Stringer
,
Elaine Pagels
,
Jonathan Haidt
[3.14.12]
TOPIC:
CULTURE
Jonathan Haidt
THIS WILL MAKE YOU SMARTER: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
Foreword by David Brooks
Edited by
John Brockman
[2.17.12]
TOPIC:
CULTURE
John Brockman
"The Man Who Runs The World's Smartest Website" (in
The Observer
)
John Naughton
[1.8.12]
TOPIC:
CULTURE
John Naughton
ADVENTURES IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROLOGY—OR—WHAT NEUROLOGY CAN TELL US ABOUT HUMAN NATURE
Vilayanur Ramachandran
[2.21.12]
TOPIC:
MIND
Vilayanur Ramachandran
"What do you think Marshall McLuhan would have said about ebooks? How do they change the message of books?"
Eva Wisten
[2.21.12]
TOPIC:
TECHNOLOGY
Nicholas G. Carr
,
Clay Shirky
,
Douglas Rushkoff
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