All Episodes

88 | How AI dreams up new science – with Jure Leskovec

87 | On the joys of being a young scientist

86 | From punchlines to discovery – Sarah Adelman

85 | How laziness invites discovery – Robert Root-Bernstein

84 | Every scientist is an artist – Lois Hetland

83 | How science is secretly driven by analogy – Melanie Mitchell

82 | On being alone together – Amy Shyer & Alan Rodrigues

81 | How to find your way by getting lost – Marina Dubova

80 | Why greatness cannot be planned with Kenneth Stanley

79 | Maria Leptin and creativity in grant writing

78 | Stephen Nachmanovitch on free play and chivalry

77 | Akiko Iwasaki and the art of creativity maintenance

76 | Can Google’s Co-scientist project give scientists superpowers?

75 | Eve Marder and how Recipe Science ruins creativity

74 | Martin Schwartz and the importance of stupidity in science

73 | Ethan Mollick and a million Einsteins in a server

72 | David Baker and the lab's communal brain

71 | Victor Ambros and the unique ways we perceive wonder

70 | Meghan O’Rourke on being the artist and their caretaker

69 | Keith Yamamoto and the freedom to fail

68 | Peter Godfrey-Smith and middle class science

67 | A hypothesis is a liability

66 | Michael Fischbach and the scientific decision tree

65 | James Kaufman and the art of creativity maintenance

64 | Robert Weinberg and the perils of being a Fachidiot

63 | Manu Prakash and how the discovery changes you

62 | Dianne Newman and the visceral and intentional sides of science

61 | Tina Seelig on what to do with a really bad idea

60 | Venki Ramakrishnan and the secrets of doing science over tea

59 | Jennifer Oyler-Yaniv and the point of creative frustration

58 | Guy Yanai on Pentimenti

57 | George Church and shooting for the stars

56 | Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz lights a candle for science

55 | Isaac Newton and a new kind of science

54 | Bo Xia and a tale of tails

53 | Todd Golub and bottom-up creativity

52 | Sean B. Carroll – he told some good stories

51 | Nigel Goldenfeld and the jazz of impossible problems

50 | It takes two to think

49 | Rich White on living on the edge cases

48 | Carolyn Bertozzi and a long game called science

47 | Stephen Quake and the Creative Network

46 | John Mattick and doing what your mother taught you

45 | Peter Ratcliffe on being the Master of Daydreams

44 | Christina Curtis and keeping the faith in the process

43 | Daniel Dennett’s intuition pumps

42 | Howard Stone on how to tilt your head for discovery

41 | Prisca Liberali and the junkies of discovery

40 | Tom Mullaney & Chris Rea on giving thanks to bias

39 | Bonnie Bassler and living on the edge in a nerdy kind of way

38 | Yukiko Yamashita, the queen of analogies

37 | Stephen Wolfram is the Worldly Scientist

36 | Laurence Hurst and the slime mold model of discovery

35 | Edith Heard and the feeling for the system

34 | Ewan Birney and the battle scars of discovery

33 | Paola Arlotta and science as a walk in the dark woods

32 | Marty Martin and Art Woods on science podcasting

31 | Alfred Russel Wallace and night science by candlelight

30 | Zak Kohane and the abstraction of data

29 | Jim Collins and the technology-free Friday

28 | Caroline Bartman and the flash(cards) of inspiration

27 | Albert-László Barabási is not afraid to break things

26 | Stuart Firestein on artful ignorance, failure, and neglect

25 | Galit Lahav and the Night Science Tuesday

24 | Eric Topol on thinking big about AI in medicine

23 | Aviv Regev on how to be generous with your ideas

22 | Cassandra Extavour and the language of creativity

21 | Daniel Kahneman and the sunk-cost fallacy

20 | Peer Bork and the scientific candy shop

19 | Edward Tufte and the Thinking Eye

18 | Shafi Goldwasser and the good joke

17 | Uri Alon and our internal tuning fork

16 | Agnel Sfeir on science as an obsession

15 | Nikolaus Rajewsky on how to think like a bacterium

14 | Bill Martin on paying attention

13 | Steven Strogatz on ruthless simplification

12 | Samantha Morris on building your own creative lineage

11 | Ruth Lehmann and the Saturday afternoon experiment

10 | Tom McLeish on the poetry of science

9 | Ben Lehner on how to start your own scientific field

8 | Yana Bromberg on getting creative with machine learning

7 | Michael Strevens on how science really works

6 | Harmit Malik’s dark alleys to discovery

5 | Sarah Teichmann’s artist colony of scientists

4 | Oded Rechavi: biology’s Indiana Jones

3 | Arjun Raj’s bag of tricks

2 | Tzachi Pilpel on channeling other people’s minds for creativity

1 | Ellen Rothenberg: inhabiting the data

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