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Prof. David Blight of Yale asks, “Is the United States on the Road to a New Civil War?”
Prof. Karl Friston, Professor of University College, London on free-energy principle for action
Prof. Anita Allen of the University of Pennsylvania on Privacy
Prof. Moshe Vardi of Rice University on the World Wide Web, AI, Computer Science and Funded Research
Prof. Jeffrey Wooldridge of Michigan State on difference-in differences estimators
Prof. John Connelly of UC Berkeley on the German question and similarity to Russia and Ukraine.
Prof. Robert Lustig of UCSF on Metabolical, The Lure & Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition & Medicine
Prof. Meredith Small of Cornell Univ. on FAMILY: How the Human Need for Belonging Shapes Our Lives
Prof. Alex Chan of Harvard on Explainable AI, Medical liability of AI, and the collapse of WWW.
Prof. Zaldy Tan of UCLA on What to Remember When You Are Forgetting
Prof. Mark Mattson of Johns Hopkins on metabolic switching and intermittent fasting
Prof. Rachael Brown of the University of Chicago on Christians and Christianity
Prof. Trevor Robbins of Univ. of Cambridge on the neural basis of compulsive disorders
Prof. Eric Betzig of Univ. of California, Berkely on high resolution imaging of biological systems
Prof. Emil Martinec of the University of Chicago on String theory & black holes information paradox
Prof. Jonathan Silvertown of the Univ. of Edinburgh on how leaves conjure up the world
Prof. Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe of Columbia University on the Neo-Fisher Effect in Monetary Policy
Prof. Mariassunta Giannetti on supply chains, market power, inflation and liquidity reallocation
Prof. Kala Krishna of the Penn State University on Educational Testing
Prof. Mark Hersam of Northwestern on nueromorphic and quantum computing.
Prof. Susan Schneider of FAU on Consciousness and AI
Prof. Katherine Freese of University of Texas, Austin on Dark Stars
Prof. Tristram Kidder of Washington University in St. Louis on Climate Change Lessons from China.
Prof. Harald Uhlig of the University of Chicago on Bitcoin Economics
Prof. Anna Grzymala-Busse of Stanford on authoritarians, fragmentation, and the medieval Church
Professor Andrew Weaver of the Univ. of Victoria on climate change mitigation
Prof. Valerio Capraro of the University of Milan - Bicocca. on the economics of language
Prof. Sara Seager, Professor of Planetary Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prof. Thomas Schoenemann of Indiana Univ. on evolution, Grammer in Apes' language & Neaderthal brain
Prof. Scott Aaronson of the University of Texas, Austin on the Future of Quantum Computing
Prof. Mike Snyder of Stanford on auto-immune diseases, metabolic syndrom and Type 2 Diabetes
Prof. Jonathan Fortney of the University of California, Santa Cruz on Exoplanets
Prof. Carole LaBonne of Northwestern University on neural crest and stem cells
Prof. Lesley Rogers of the University of New England, Australia on asymmetrical brain
Prof. George Matsas of São Paulo State Univ. on black holes, macro systems & fundamental constants
Prof. Darcia Narvaez of Notre Dame on growing up to be “A Good and Useful Human Being”
Prof. Clayton Crockett of the University of Central Arkansas on the New Materialist Cosmotheology
Prof. Thomas Levenson of MIT on "A Pox on Fools" and the story of Vaccines
Prof. Charles Yang of the University of Pennsylvania on learning words and conventions
Prof. Stephanie Coontz of Evergreen State on the Problematic Past and Uncertain Future of Marriage.
Prof. Agustin Ibáñez of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile on whole-body-exposome and brain health
Prof. Susan Roaf of Heriot Watts University on temperature, comfort, colonialism and standards
Prof. Amy Williams of the University of Florida on Astrobiology and Mars Rovers.
Prof. Magnus Bergquist of the University of Gothenburg on environment, climate change and policy
Dr. Daniel Schroeder of SINTEF on Artificial Intelligence threats to society and democracy
Prof. Jeffrey Marlow of Boston University on Unlocking the secrets of the deep sea
Prof. Kathryn Paige Harden of the University of Texas at Austin on the Original Sin
Prof. Hakeem Oluseyi on Why We Exist.
Prof. Isabel Gauthier of Vanderbilt University on visual object recognition and human variation
Dr. Alberto Espay of the University of Cincinnati on neurodegenerative diseases.
Dr Vishal Gajjar of SETI Institute on finding technologically advanced extraterrestrial life
Prof. Lawrence Friedman of New England Law School on The Varieties of Substantive Due Process
Prof. Exequiel (Zeke) Hernandez of the University of Pennsylvania on Immigration.
Prof. Mark Aldenderfer of the University of California, Merced on high altitude adaptation of humans
Prof. Valerie Fridland of the Univ of Nevada on Why We Talk Funny, The Real Story Behind Our Accents
Prof. Rosemary Joyce of the University of California, Berkeley, on ancient Honduras.
Dr. Christopher DeArmitt on Plastics.
Prof. Gunther Kletetschka of University of Alaska on A Radical New Theory: Is Time 3-Dimensional?
Prof Paul Zak of Claremont Graduate University on neural diversity, mood, thriving and good music
Prof. Geraint Lewis of the University of Sydney on the Cosmos
Prof. John Friedman of Brown on Opportunity Insights
Jon Hartley of Hoover institution on De-dollarization, AI, and tariffs.
Prof. Jimenez of Univ. of Barcelona and Prof. Bertacca of Univ. Padova on inflation cosmology.
Prof. Daniel Whiteson of the University of California, Irvine asks, "Do Aliens speak Physics?'6
Prof. Andrew Jaffe of Imperial College on the Random Universe
Prof. Antoinette Schoar of MIT Sloan School of Management on cryptocurrencies
Mr. Nicolas Niarchos on the dirty supply chain.
Prof. Stephen Kritchevsky of Wake Forest on Geroscience
Prof. Jacqueline Gottlieb of Columbia University on curiosity
Prof. Rita McGrath of Columbia Business School on Seeing Around Corners.
Dr. Nadine Dijkstra of UCL on reality and imagination
Prof. Scott Anthony of Dartmouth on Eleven Innovations that Shaped Our Modern World
Prof. Kevin Gaston of Univ. of Exeter on night time ecology.
Prof. Katrine Løken of the Norwegian School of Economics on parental leave, prison, and brain drain.
Ms. Amber Case of Calm Technology Institute on the principles and patterns for non-intrusive design.
Dr. Christof Koch of the Allen Institute on Consciousness
Prof. Paola Sapienza of Stanford on Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance
Prof. Danielle Allen of Harvard University on Justice By Means of Democracy.
Prof. Jonathan Moreno of the University of Pennsylvania on Psychodrama, Culture, and the Network.
Prof Setha Low of CUNY on Beach Politics
Prof Christine Webb of NYU on the Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters
Prof. Ranjay Gulati of Harvard Business School on How to Be Bold
Prof. Christopher Bae of the Univ. of Hawaii on Asian hominin variability and the Chibanian puzzle
Prof. Carmen Reinhart of Harvard on Sovereign Debt
Prof. Tanya Luhrmann of Stanford on Porosity is the Heart of Religion
Prof. Shelly Flagel and Prof. Jacinta Beehner of the University of Michigan on goal/sign tracking
Prof. Dani Bassett of UPenn and Prof. Perry Zurn of American University on curiosity.
Prof. Itay Goldstein of UPenn on financial institutions,.AI-Powered Trading, and Collusion
Prof. Angus Fletcher of Ohio State on Why Computers Will Never Read (or Write) Literature
Prof. Alison Galloway of UC Santa Cruz on bone color changes due to fire, wild fires and victims
Prof. Kanaka Rajan of Harvard on Deep RL, Deep Behavior Analysis and Scalable Neural Forecasting
Prof. Madeleine Beekman of the University of Sydney on the Origin of Language
Dr. Tristan Bekinschtein of Cambridge on sleep, alertness, breathwork, and cognitive digital therapy
Prof. Missy Cummings of George Mason University on autonomous vehicles, LLM and AI hazards
Prof. Paco Calvo, Professor at the University of Murcia on plant cognition and consciousness
Prof. Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan on addiction and Incentive-Sensitization Theory
Prof. Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé of Columbia on Exchange Controls, Nominal Wage Rigidity and inflation
Prof. Sriram Sankararaman of UCLA on Neanderthal introgression, and gene-environment interactions
Decision Options ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Ian Williams on Science Funding Options
Prof. Simon Hogg of Durham University on wind energy