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Bridging the Gaps: A Portal for Curious Minds, 100 episodes.

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"The Elegant Universe": The Theory of Everything, Mind, Meaning and AI with Professor Brian Greene

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“What's Eating the Universe?” with Professor Paul Davies

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“Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age: Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload” with Professor Richard Cytowic

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“The Evolution of Imperfection: The Science of Why We Aren’t and Can’t Be Perfect” with Professor Laurence Hurst

5

“Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe” and “Ten Days in Physics That Shook the World” with Brian Clegg

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“Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness” with Professor Philip Goff

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“Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change” with Professor Alex Madva

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“Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds” with Prof. Scott Solomon

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“Everything Evolves” and the Generalised Evolutionary Theory with Professor Mark Vellend

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Building a Thriving Future: Navigating the Metaverse and Multiverse with Dr Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio

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“Seven Decades: How We Evolved to Live Longer” with Professor Michael Gurven

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“AI Fairness: Designing Equal Opportunity Algorithms” with Professor Derek Leben

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“How Our Grasp of the Universe and Our Minds Changed Everything” with Professor Linda Zagzebski

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“The Nobel Prize and the Public Image of Science” with Professor Massimiano Bucchi

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“The Human Journey From Ape to Agriculture” with Professor Peter Bellwood

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“The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood” with Professor James Boyle

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“From Sensing to Sentience: How Feeling Emerges from the Brain” with Professor Todd Feinberg

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“Welcome to the Universe in 3D: A Visual Tour” with Neil deGrasse Tyson

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“The Evolution of Biological Information” with Professor Christoph Adami

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“The Painful Truth about Hunger in America” with Professor Mariana Chilton

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“The Network of Life: A New View of Evolution” with Professor David Mindell

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“Middle Tech: Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough” with Professor Paula Bialski

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“Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech” with Professor Payal Arora

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“The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience” with Professor Adam Frank

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“The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty” with Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert

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“Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space” with Dr Erika Nesvold

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“Evolutionary Intelligence: How Technology Will Make Us Smarter” with Professor W. Russell Neuman

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“Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered” with Professor Don Norman

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“The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment” with Eric Siegel

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“Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM” with Professor Brandon Brown

31

“The Good-Enough Life” with Dr Avram Alpert

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“Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness” with Professor Nicholas Humphrey

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“The Smartness Mandate” with Professor Orit Halpern

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“Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from Contagion” with Richard Conniff

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“Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub” with Robert Buderi

36

“Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity” with Prof. Chris Impey

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Reclaiming Human Intelligence and “How to Stay Smart in a Smart World” with Prof. Gerd Gigerenzer

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“A Traveller’s Guide to the Stars” with Physicist, Author and Nasa Technologist Les Johnson

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“When Galaxies Were Born: The Quest for Cosmic Dawn” with Professor Richard Ellis

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Cloud Empires: Governing State-like Digital Platforms & Regaining Control with Prof Vili Lehdonvirta

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“The Exquisite Machine: The New Science of the Heart” with Professor Sian Harding

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“Working with AI”: Human-Machine Collaborations with Prof. Thomas Davenport and Prof. Steven Miller

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"Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built" with Professor William Harris

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“The Case Against Reality” and The Hard Problem of Consciousness with Professor Donald Hoffman

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Augmented Thinking: The New Convergence of Art, Technology, and Science with Professor Julio Ottino

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“Machines like Us: TOWARD AI WITH COMMON SENSE” with Professor Ronald Brachman

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“The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds” with Professor Christopher Mason

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"The Joy of Science" with Professor Jim Al-Khalili

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"Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans" with Professor Melanie Mitchell

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The End of Astronauts, Robotic Space Missions and Our Future on Earth & Beyond with Prof Martin Rees

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"Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life" with Professor Timothy Jorgensen

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Asking Better Questions for Problem Solving, Innovation and Effective Leadership with Hal Gregersen

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On Public Communication of Science and Technology with Professor Bruce Lewenstein

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"Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering" with Dr Scott Small

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"Learning How to Learn": Techniques to Help You Learn with Dr Barbra Oakley (CLASSIC)

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"The Self-Assembling Brain" and Quest for Improved AI with Professor Peter Robin Hiesinger

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Quantum Computers: Building and Harnessing the Power of Quantum Machines with Prof. Andrea Morello

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"Nano Comes to Life": DNA NanoTech, Medicine and the Future of Biology with Professor Sonia Contera

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"Free Will" Through the Lenses of Philosophy and Neuroscience with Dr Alfred Mele

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Time, Space and Nature of Reality through the Lens of Quantum Theory with Dr Carlo Rovelli

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The Spike: Journey of Electric Signals in Brain from Perception to Action with Prof. Mark Humphries

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History of Information with Professor Paul Duguid

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"On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done" with Professor David Badre

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"Philosophy & Ethics of Technology" with Professor Peter-Paul Verbeek

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"A Passion for Ignorance" and for Denials and Negations with Professor Renata Salecl

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Intriguing Science of Sense of Smell with Professor Matthew Cobb

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"Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe's First Seconds" with Dr Dan Hooper

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"The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)" with Dr Katie Mack

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Artificial Intelligence: Fascinating Opportunities & Emerging Challenges with Professor Bart Selman

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"Philosophy of Information" and "Ethics of Information" with Professor Luciano Floridi

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"The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for The Anthropocene" with Professor Jürgen Renn

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"Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" with Professor David Hand

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Origin Of Mathematics and Mathematical Thinking with Dr Keith Devlin

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Timefulness: Thinking Like a Geologist with Professor Marcia Bjornerud

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"The Technology Trap" and the Future of Work with Dr Carl Frey

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How Cooking Made Us Human with Professor Richard Wrangham

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Spitzer Space Telescope: Discovering "More Things in the Heavens" with Michael Werner

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"Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason" with Justin Smith

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"2062: The World That AI Made" with Professor Toby Walsh

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Robots, Artificial Life and Technology Imagined by the Ancients with Adrienne Mayor

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Origin of Human Emotions and Underlying Neurophysiological Functions with Professor Joseph LeDoux

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A History of the Concept of Genius from Antiquity to the Modern Time with Professor Darrin McMohan

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Memory Slips, Ageing and Strategies For Keeping Brain Healthy with Dr Gary Small

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Phoenix Mars Mission with NASA's Peter Smith

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False Memories, Misinformation Effect and Eyewitness Testimony: Professor Elizabeth Loftus

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Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age with Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

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Why You Are Not Your Brain? A Conversation on Consciousness with Alva Noe

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Everything a Curious Mind Should Know About Planetary Ring Systems: Dr Mark Showalter @ BTG

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A Conversation with Dr Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut and Sixth Person to Walk on the Moon

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Giant Magellan Telescope: Past, Present and Future of Space Exploration with Ground Based Telescopes

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Education: What works and what does not, with Professor John Hattie

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Search for Exoplanets: A Discussion with Professor Sara Seager @ BTG

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New Horizons Spacecraft's Pluto Flyby with Dr Mark Showalter

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Multiple Intelligences and Future Minds with Dr Howard Gardner

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From Consciousness to Synthetic Consciousness: Prof. David Chalmers

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Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Dr Jill Tarter

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Growth Mindset: Professor Carol Dweck at BTG

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Memory: Professor Daniel Schacter at BTG

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Philosophy of Science: Professor Tim Maudlin at BTG

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Meta-awareness and Mind Wandering: Professor Jonathan Schooler at BTG