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Decision Options ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Ian Williams on Science Funding Options
Prof. Simon Hogg of Durham University on wind energy
Dr. Foy Scalf of the University of Chicago on funerary texts in ancient Egypt
Dr. Heidi Gardner of Harvard Law School on collaboration, leaders and boards
Prof. Trey Ideker of UCSD on predictive oncology, genomics and Desmosome mutations
Prof. Ernest Chi Fru of Cardiff University on the importance of Phosphorous on life
Prof. David Pearce of Northumbria University on the Microbial communities in the Artic and Antarctic.
Prof. Gualtiero Piccinini, Professor of Philosophy at the Univ of Missouri in St. Louis on the Mind
Dr. Ian Williams on Consciousness
Prof. Muhammad Usman of the University of Melbourne on Quantum Computing
Prof Stewart Friedman of University of Pennsylvania on work, life and leadership
Dr. Ian Williams on different ideas.
Prof Peter Carruthers of the University of Maryland on Innateness in Mind
Dr Paavo Pylkkänen on Physics and Consciousness
Prof. Joanna Masel of the University of Arizona on fitness, LUCA, and planning for the next pandemic
Prof. Meret Aeppli of EPFL on the complexity of soil as a system
Prof. Claudia Maraston of the University of Portsmouth on stellar and galaxy evolution
Prof. Tirthankar Roy of LSE and Dr. K. Ravi Raman of Kerala State Planning Board on Kerala, India
Prof. Rodrigo Braga of Northwestern University on brain networks
Prof. Catherine Ramirez University of California, Santa Cruz on Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Prof. Elizabeth Johnson of Northwestern University on aging, cognition and brain stimulation.
Prof. Wendy Freedman of the University of Chicago on the Hubble Constant
Prof. Kevin Tracey of Feinstein Institutes on the Great Nerve (Vagus Nerve)
Prof. Michael Frank of Brown Univ. on Brain, Memory, decision-making, uncertainty, and plasticity
Prof Peter Carruthers of the University of Maryland on Innateness in Mind
Prof. Shadi Bartsch of the University of Chicago on Natural, Social Sciences and Humanities
Prof. Jeffrey C. Erlich of the University College, London on Cognition
Dr. Ian Willams on empathy, consciousness and extra-terrestrial life
Prof. Sir Simon Baron-Cohen on the Pattern Seekers, how autism drives human invention.
Prof. Gregory Forth of the University of Alberta on a Hidden Hominid
Prof. Bhismadev Chakrabarti of Univ. of Reading on Autism and Empathy
Prof. George Dragoi of Yale on memory storage and retrieval
Dr. Geoffrey Ellis of US Geological Survey on geologic hydrogen resources on Earth
Prof. Prem Kumar of Northwestern on Quantum Teleportation
Prof. David Blight of Yale on Democracy and Policies in America: History repeats
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter emeritus prof of University of Cambridge on the Art of Uncertainty
Prof. Ziv Williams of Harvard on the behavior of single neurons in the human brain
Prof. John Crassidis,, Professor of Innovation at the University at Buffalo, on space junk
Sam Faycurry, co-founder and CEO of Fay Nutrition on dietitians and the science of nutrition
Prof. Iris Berent of Northeastern University on human nature and the mind-body divide
Prof. Christopher Lynn of Yale University on how humans learn
Prof. David Lindenmayer of Australian National University on forest fires, causes and solutions
Prof. Chris Kennedy of the University of Chicago on reasoning, semantic convention and subjectivity
Prof. Alan Love of the University of Minnesota on Evolutionary Theories
Decision Options ® by Gill Eapen: Mr. Aby Alexander on emerging technologies in connectivity.
Prof. Dirk Schulze-Makuch of Technical University, Berlin, Germany on ET
Prof. Peter Gorham of University of Hawaii on Neutrinos, Cosmic Rays, and experimental Physics
Prof. Rob Jackson of Stanford on "Into the Clear Blue Sky: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere"
Prof. Glenn Cohen of Harvard on emergency abortions, uterus transplants, psychedelics and medical AI
Prof. Terrie Moffitt of Duke University on Aging
Prof. Michael Rowan-Robinson on Planet 9, Star burst, Plank and JWST
Prof. Glenn M. Schwartz of Johns Hopkins on Syria and Mesopotamia
Prof. Zhaoping Li of UCLA on Spices and Health
Prof. Stacy McGaugh of Case Western on the Mutual Incommensurability of ΛCDM and MOND
Prof. Salikoko Mufwene of the U of Chicago on Language Evolution: Contact, competition and change
Prof. Elizabeth Loftus of UC Irvine on misinformation, AI and LLM amplification of false memories
Prof. Sophia Rosenfeld of University of Pennsylvania on Statistics, Democracy and Choice
Prof. Jacqueline Gerson of Cornell on how anthropogenic activities changed nutrients in watersheds
Prof. Yotam Ophir of the University at Buffalo on disinformation, and conspiracy theories.
Prof. Robert Sternberg of Cornell University on Intelligence and Wisdom
Prof. Anita Allen of the University of Pennsylvania on Privacy
Dr. Anna Trindade Falcão of Harvard on Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
Prof. Mike Wiest of Wellesley College on Consciousness
Prof. Thomas Maschmeyer of the University of Sydney on battery technologies and plastics recycling.
Prof. Ben Levinstein of the University of Illinois on the mind of ChatGPT (Part 2)
Prof. Ben Levinstein of the University of Illinois on the mind of ChatGPT - Part I
Prof. Sharon Block of Harvard on worker power, rights, unions and policy
Prof. Robert George of Princeton on the Truth-Seeking Mission of the University and Its Conditions.
Prof. Rebecca Tushnet of Harvard on the first amendment, copyright and commercial speech doctrine
Prof. Martha Minow of Harvard on Constitutional Preconditions, Divided Societies, and Local News
Prof. Karla Kaun of Brown University on addiction and the brain
Prof. Harold Koh of Yale on the National Security Constitution
Prof.Tim Maudlin of NYU on Physics and Philosophy
Prof. Burt Neuborne of NYU and Berkeley on the Supreme Court
Prof. Philip Koopman of Carnegie Mellon University on autonomous vehicles.
Prof. Peter Littlewood on phase transitions, and the connections between Physics, Biology and AI
Prof. Michael Dorf of Cornell on the nonidentity problem, debt ceiling, and Civil Disobedience
Prof. Bruce Ovbiagele of UCSF on Stroke and Global Health Equity
Prof. Viral Acharya of NYU on myopic governments, decarbonization, contingent credit, and employment
Prof. Thane Rosenbaum of Touro University on the first amendment, society, religion and policy
Prof. Joel Bakan on the New Corporation
Prof. Chris Barrett on ‘Benevolent’ patent extensions, community forests, and crop yield estimation
Dr. Paul Heggarty on the history and progression of Indo-Europeans
Prof. Eugene Volokh of UCLA on freedom of speech for humans, organizations, and AI.
Prof. Mariassunta Giannetti on supply chains, market power, inflation and liquidity reallocation
Prof. Anthony LoSasso on healthcare providers, payors, prices and markets
Prof. Jeffrey Pinto of Penn State on Covid reality & Normalization of Deviance in Project Management
Mr. Ashwin Ramaswami, senatorial candidate in Georgia on the opportunities for the next generation
Prof Annamaria Lusardi of Stanford University on the importance of financial literacy
Priyanca Ford on the promises and challenges of fusion energy
Prof. Moran Cerf of Columbia Business School on humanity, AI and decision-making
Prof. György Buzsáki of NYU on the Cognition from the Body-Brain Partnership
Prof. Ilana Redstone of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on the Certainty Trap.
Prof. Linda-Gail Bekker of the University of Cape Town on the prevalence of HIV and other diseases
Prof. Cass Sunstein of Harvard University on the power of noticing what was always there
Prof. Monica L. Smith of UCLA on the Fundamentals of the State
Prof. Claudia de Rham of Imperial College on Gravity.
Prof. Susan Goldin-Meadow of the University of Chicago on gestures and language
Prof. Robin Chazdon on forest regeneration and climatic impacts
Prof. Francine Blau of Cornell University on Gender Inequality in the Labor Market