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Night Science — 85 episodes
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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