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Sean Carroll's Mindscape — 429 episodes

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Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | July 2026

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358 | Solo: Vacuum Energy and the Cosmological Constant

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357 | Jeff Coller on mRNA, Vaccines, and Bespoke Therapeutics

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353 | Alvin Roth on the Economics of Morally Contested Markets

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AMA | May 2026

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352 | Bing Brunton on Connecting the Connectome to the Body

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351 | Peter Singer on Maximizing Good for All Sentient Creatures

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350 | J. Eric Oliver on the Self and How to Know It

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AMA | April 2026

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349 | Daniel Harlow on What Quantum Gravity Teaches Us About Quantum Mechanics

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348 | Jessica Riskin on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Life as Creative Agency

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347 | Andrew Guthrie Ferguson on How Your Data Will Be Used Against You

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346 | Erica Cartmill on How Human and Animal Minds Think and Play

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AMA | March 2026

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345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe

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344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

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343 | Tom Griffiths on The Laws of Thought

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AMA | Feb 2026

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342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Morality, and Mind

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341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

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340 | Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on What Matters and Why It Matters

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339 | Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology

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Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University

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AMA | December 2025

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338 | Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos

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337 | Kevin Zollman on Game Theory, Signals, and Meaning

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336 | Anil Ananthaswamy on the Mathematics of Neural Nets and AI

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AMA | November 2025

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335 | Andrew Jaffe on Models, Probability, and the Universe

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334 | Daniel Whiteson on the Physics of and by Aliens

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333 | Gordon Pennycook on Unthinkingness, Conspiracies, and What to Do About Them

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332 | Dmitri Tymoczko on the Mathematics Behind Music

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AMA | October 2025

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331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse

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330 | Petter Törnberg on the Dynamics of (Mis)Information

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329 | Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge

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328 | Mary Roach on Replacing Parts of Our Bodies

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AMA | September 2025

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327 | Cass Sunstein on Liberalism

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326 | Natalie Batalha on What We Know and Will Learn About Exoplanets

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325 | Alvy Ray Smith on Pixar, Pixels, and the Great Digital Convergence

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324 | Elizabeth Mynatt on Universities and the Importance of Basic Research

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AMA | August 2025

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323 | Jacob Barandes on Indivisible Stochastic Quantum Mechanics

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322 | Philip Pettit on Language, Agency, Politics, and Freedom

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321 | David Tong on Open Questions in Quantum Field Theory

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AMA | July 2025

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320 | Solo: Complexity and the Universe

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319 | Bryan Van Norden on Philosophy From the Rest of the World

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318 | Edward Miguel on the Developing Practice of Development Economics

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317 | Nicole Rust on Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders

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AMA | June 2025

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316 | Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper

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315 | Branden Fitelson on the Logic and Use of Probability

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314 | Karen Lloyd on the Deep Underground Biosphere

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313 | Eric Topol on the Changing Face of Medicine and Aging

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AMA | May 2025

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312 | Thomas Levenson on the Mutual History of Humans and Germs

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311 | Annaka Harris on Whether Consciousness is Fundamental

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AMA | April 2025

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310 | Marc Kamionkowski on Dark Energy and Cosmic Anomalies

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309 | Christof Koch on Consciousness and Integrated Information

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308 | Alison Gopnik on Children, AI, and Modes of Thinking

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AMA | March 2025

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307 | Kevin Peterson on the Theory of Cocktails

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306 | Helen Czerski on Our Energetic Oceans

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305 | Lilliana Mason on Polarization and Political Psychology

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Bonus | Cuts to Science Funding and Why They Matter

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304 | James Evans on Innovation, Consolidation, and the Science of Science

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AMA | February 2025

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303 | James P. Allison on Fighting Cancer with the Immune System

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302 | Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution

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301 | Tina Eliassi-Rad on Al, Networks, and Epistemic Instability

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300 | Solo: Does Time Exist?

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Holiday Message | Hits and Misses

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299 | Michael Wong on Information, Function, and the Origin of Life

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298 | Jeff Lichtman on the Wiring Diagram of the Brain

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AMA | December 2024

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297 | Emily Wilson on Homer, Poetry, and Translation

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296 | Brandon Ogbunu on Fitness Seascapes and the Course of Evolution

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295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality

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AMA | November 2024

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294 | Addy Pross on Dynamics, Stability, and Life

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293 | Doyne Farmer on Chaos, Crashes, and Economic Complexity

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292 | Jonathan Birch on Animal Sentience

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AMA | October 2024

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291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

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290 | Hahrie Han on Making Multicultural Democracy Work

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289 | Cari Cesarotti on the Next Generation of Particle Experiments

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288 | Max Richter on the Meaning of Classical Music Today

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AMA | September 2024

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287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History

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286 | Blaise Agüera y Arcas on the Emergence of Replication and Computation

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285 | Nate Silver on Prediction, Risk, and Rationality

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AMA | August 2024

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284 | Doris Tsao on How the Brain Turns Vision Into the World

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283 | Daron Acemoglu on Technology, Inequality, and Power

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282 | Joel David Hamkins on Puzzles of Reality and Infinity

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Ask Me Anything | July 2024

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281 | Samir Okasha on the Philosophy of Agency and Evolution

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280 | François Chollet on Deep Learning and the Meaning of Intelligence

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279 | Ellen Langer on Mindfulness and the Body

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278 | Kieran Healy on the Technology of Ranking People

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AMA | June 2024

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277 | Cumrun Vafa on the Universe According to String Theory

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276 | Gavin Schmidt on Measuring, Predicting, and Protecting Our Climate

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275 | Solo: Quantum Fields, Particles, Forces, and Symmetries

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AMA | May 2024

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274 | Gizem Gumuskaya on Building Robots from Human Cells

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273 | Stefanos Geroulanos on the Invention of Prehistory

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272 | Leslie Valiant on Learning and Educability in Computers and People

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AMA | April 2024

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271 | Claudia de Rham on Modifying General Relativity

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270 | Solo: The Coming Transition in How Humanity Lives

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269 | Sahar Heydari Fard on Complexity, Justice, and Social Dynamics

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AMA | March 2024

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268 | Matt Strassler on Relativity, Fields, and the Language of Reality

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267 | Benjamin Breen on Margaret Mead, Psychedelics, and Utopia

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266 | Christoph Adami on How Information Makes Sense of Biology

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AMA | February 2024

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265 | John Skrentny on How the Economy Mistreats STEM Workers

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264 | Sabine Stanley on What's Inside Planets

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263 | Chris Quigg on Symmetry and the Birth of the Standard Model

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262 | Eric Schwitzgebel on the Weirdness of the World

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261 | Sanjana Curtis on the Origins of the Elements

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260 | Ricard Solé on the Space of Cognitions

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Holiday Message: Reflections on Immortality

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259 | Adam Frank on What Aliens Might Be Like

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AMA | December 2023

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258 | Solo: AI Thinks Different

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257 | Derek Guy on the Theory and Practice of Dressing Well

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256 | Kelly and Zach Weinersmith on Building Cities on the Moon and Mars

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AMA | November 2023

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255 | Michael Muthukrishna on Developing a Theory of Everyone

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254 | William Egginton on Kant, Heisenberg, and Borges

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253 | David Deutsch on Science, Complexity, and Explanation

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AMA | October 2023

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252 | Hannah Ritchie on Keeping Hope for the Planet Alive

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251 | Rosemary Braun on Uncovering Patterns in Biological Complexity

140

250 | Brendan Nyhan on Navigating the Information Ecosystem

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249 | Peter Godfrey-Smith on Sentience and Octopus Minds

142

AMA | September 2023

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248 | Yejin Choi on AI and Common Sense

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247 | Samuel Bowles on Economics, Cooperation, and Inequality

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246 | David Stuart on Time and Science in Maya Civilization

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AMA | August 2023

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245 | Solo: The Crisis in Physics

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244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Explanation

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243 | Joseph Silk on Science on the Moon

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242 | David Krakauer on Complexity, Agency, and Information

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AMA | July 2023

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241 | Tim Maudlin on Locality, Hidden Variables, and Quantum Foundations

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240 | Andrew Pontzen on Simulations and the Universe

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239 | Brian Lowery on the Social Self

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AMA | June 2023

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238 | Scott Shapiro on the Technology and Philosophy of Hacking

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237 | Brooke Harrington on Offshore Wealth as a Complex System

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236 | Thomas Hertog on Quantum Cosmology and Hawking's Final Theory

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AMA | May 2023

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235 | Andy Clark on the Extended and Predictive Mind

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234 | Tobias Warnecke on Cellular Structure and Evolution

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233 | Hugo Mercier on Reasoning and Skepticism

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232 | Amy Finkelstein on Adverse Selection and Hidden Information

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Ask Me Anything | April 2023

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231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism

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230 | Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks

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229 | Nita Farahany on Ethics, Law, and Neurotechnology

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AMA | March 2023

169

228 | Skye Cleary on Existentialism and Authenticity

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227 | Molly Crockett on the Psychology of Morality

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226 | Johanna Hoffman on Speculative Futures of Cities

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AMA | February 2023

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225 | Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency

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224 | Edward Tufte on Data, Design, and Truth

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223 | Tania Lombrozo on What Explanations Are

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222 | Andrew Strominger on Quantum Gravity and the Real World

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221 | Adam Bulley on How Mental Time Travel Makes Us Human

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Holiday Message 2022: Thinking Really Slowly

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220 | Lara Buchak on Risk and Rationality

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AMA | December 2022

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219 | Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn on the Neuroscience and Philosophy of Curiosity

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218 | Raphael Bousso on Black Holes and the Holographic Universe

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217 | Margaret Levi on Moral Political Economy

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AMA | November 2022

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216 | John Allen Paulos on Numbers, Narratives, and Numeracy

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215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld

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214 | Antonio Padilla on Large Numbers and the Scope of the Universe

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AMA | October 2022

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213 | Timiebi Aganaba on Law and Governance in Space

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212 | Chiara Mingarelli on Searching for Black Holes with Pulsars

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211 | Solo: Secrets of Einstein's Equation

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210 | Randall Munroe on Imagining What If...?

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209 | Brad DeLong on Why the 20th Century Fell Short of Utopia

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AMA | September 2022

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208 | Rick Beato on the Theory of Popular Music

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207 | William MacAskill on Maximizing Good in the Present and Future

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206 | Simon Conway Morris on Evolution, Convergence, and Theism

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AMA | August 2022

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205 | John Quiggin on Interest Rates and the Information Economy

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204 | John Asher Johnson on Hunting for Exoplanets

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203 | N.J. Enfield on Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Not Scientists

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AMA | July 2022

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202 | Andrew Papachristos on the Network Theory of Gun Violence

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201 | Ed Yong on How Animals Sense the World

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AMA | June 2022

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200 | Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse

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199 | Elizabeth Cohen on Time and Other Political Values

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198 | Nick Lane on Powering Biology

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197 | Catherine Brinkley on the Science of Cities

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AMA | May 2022

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196 | Judea Pearl on Cause and Effect

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195 | Richard Dawkins on Flight and Other Evolutionary Achievements

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194 | Frans de Waal on Culture and Gender in Primates

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193 | Daniels on Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

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AMA | April 2022

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192 | Nicole Yunger Halpern on Quantum Steampunk Thermodynamics

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191 | Jane McGonigal on How to Imagine the Future

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190 | Lea Goentoro on Regrowing Limbs

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189 | Brian Klaas on Power and the Temptation of Corruption

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AMA | March 2022

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188 | Arik Kershenbaum on What Aliens Will Be Like

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187 | Andrew Leigh on the Politics of Looming Disasters

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186 | Sherry Turkle on How Technology Affects Our Humanity

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185 | Arvid Ågren on the Gene's-Eye View of Evolution

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184 | Gary Marcus on Artificial Intelligence and Common Sense

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AMA | February 2022

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183 | Michael Dine on Supersymmetry, Anthropics, and the Future of Particle Physics

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182 | Sally Haslanger on Social Construction and Critical Theory

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181 | Peter Dodds on Quantifying the Shape of Stories

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180 | Camilla Pang on Instructions for Being Human

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179 | David Reich on Genetics and Ancient Humanity

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178 | Jody Azzouni on What Is and Isn't Real

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Holiday Message 2021 | On Disciplines & Cocktails

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AMA | December 2021

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177 | Monika Schleier-Smith on Cold Atoms and Emergent Spacetime

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176 | Joshua Greene on Morality, Psychology, and Trolley Problems

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175 | William Ratcliff on Multicellularity, Physics, and Evolution

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174 | Tai-Danae Bradley on Algebra, Topology, Language, and Entropy

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AMA | November 2021

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173 | Sylvia Earle on the Oceans, the Planet, and People

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172 | David Goyer on Televising the Fall of the Galactic Empire

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171 | Christopher Mims on Our Interconnected Industrial Ecology

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170 | Priya Natarajan on Galaxies, Black Holes, and Cosmic Anomalies

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169 | C. Thi Nguyen on Games, Art, Values, and Agency

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AMA | October 2021

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168 | Anil Seth on Emergence, Information, and Consciousness

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167 | Chiara Marletto on Constructor Theory, Physics, and Possibility

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166 | Betül Kaçar on Paleogenomics and Ancient Life

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165 | Kathryn Paige Harden on Genetics, Luck, and Fairness

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AMA | September 2021

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164 | Herbert Gintis on Game Theory, Evolution, and Social Rationality

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163 | Nigel Goldenfeld on Phase Transitions, Criticality, and Biology

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162 | Leidy Klotz on Our Resistance to Subtractive Change

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161 | W. Brian Arthur on Complexity Economics

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160 | Edward Slingerland on Confucianism, Daoism, and Wu Wei

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AMA | August 2021

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159 | Mari Ruti on Lack, Love, and Psychoanalysis

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158 | David Wallace on the Arrow of Time

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157 | Elizabeth Strychalski on Synthetic Cells and the Rules of Biology

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156 | Catherine D'Ignazio on Data, Objectivity, and Bias

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155 | Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental Physics

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AMA | July 2021

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154 | Reza Aslan on Religion, Metaphor, and Meaning

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153 | John Preskill on Quantum Computers and What They're Good For

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152 | Charis Kubrin on Criminology, Incarceration, and Hip-Hop

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151 | Jordan Ellenberg on the Mathematics of Political Boundaries

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AMA | June 2021

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150 | Simon DeDeo on How Explanations Work and Why They Sometimes Fail

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149 | Lee Smolin on Time, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality

270

148 | Henry Farrell on Democracy as a Problem-Solving Mechanism

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147 | Rachel Laudan on Cuisine, Culture, and Empire

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AMA | May 2021

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146 | Emily Riehl on Topology, Categories, and the Future of Mathematics

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145 | Niall Ferguson on Histories, Networks, and Catastrophes

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144 | Solo: Are We Moving Beyond the Standard Model?

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143 | Julia Galef on Openness, Bias, and Rationality

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AMA | April 2021

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142 | Charlie Jane Anders on Stories and How to Write Them

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141 | Zeynep Tufekci on Information and Attention in a Networked World

280

140 | Dean Buonomano on Time, Reality, and the Brain

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139 | Elizabeth Anderson on Equality, Work, and Ideology

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138 | Daryl Morey on Analytics, Psychology, and Basketball

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AMA | March 2021

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137 | Justin Clarke-Doane on Mathematics, Morality, Objectivity, and Reality

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136 | Roderick Graham on Cyberspace, Race, and Cultural Conservatism

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135 | Shadi Bartsch on Plato, Vergil, Confucius, and Modernity

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AMA | February 2021

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134 | Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do

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133 | Ziya Tong on Realities We Don't See

290

Bonus | AIP Oral History Interview

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132 | Michael Levin on Growth, Form, Information, and the Self

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131 | Avi Loeb on Taking Aliens Seriously

293

130 | Frank Wilczek on the Present and Future of Fundamental Physics

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129 | Solo: Democracy in America

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128 | Joseph Henrich on the Weirdness of the West

296

Holiday Message 2020 | The Screwy Universe

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127 | Erich Jarvis on Language, Birds, and People

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AMA | December 2020

299

126 | David Stasavage on the Origin and History of Democracy

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125 | David Haig on the Evolution of Meaning from Darwin to Derrida

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124 | Solo: How Time Travel Could and Should Work

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AMA | November 2020

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123 | Lisa Feldman Barrett on Emotions, Actions, and the Brain

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122 | David Eagleman on Tapping Into the Livewired Brain

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121 | Cornel West on What Democracy Is and Should Be

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120 | Jeremy England on Biology, Thermodynamics, and the Bible

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119 | Musa al-Gharbi on the Value of Intellectual Diversity

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118 | Adam Riess on the Expansion of the Universe and a Crisis in Cosmology

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117 | Sean B. Carroll on Randomness and the Course of Evolution

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116 | Teresa Bejan on Free Speech, Civility, and Toleration

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115 | Netta Engelhardt on Black Hole Information, Wormholes, and Quantum Gravity

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114 | Angela Chen on Asexuality in a Sex-Preoccupied World

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113 | Cailin O'Connor on Game Theory, Evolution, and the Origins of Unfairness

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112 | Fyodor Urnov on Gene Editing, CRISPR, and Human Engineering

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111 | Nick Bostrom on Anthropic Selection and Living in a Simulation

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110 | Neil Johnson on Complexity, Conflict, and Infodemiology

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109 | Jason Torchinsky on Our Self-Driving Future

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108 | Carl Bergstrom on Information, Disinformation, and Bullshit

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107 | Russ Shafer-Landau on the Reality of Morality

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106 | Stuart Bartlett on What "Life" Means

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105 | Ann-Sophie Barwich on the Science and Philosophy of Smell

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104 | David Rosen and Scott Miles on the Neuroscience of Music and Creativity

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103 | J. Kenji López-Alt on Cooking As and With Science

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102 | Maria Konnikova on Poker, Psychology, and Reason

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101 | David Baltimore on the Mysteries of Viruses

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100 | Solo | Life and Its Meaning

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99 | Scott Aaronson on Complexity, Computation, and Quantum Gravity

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98 | Olga Khazan on Living and Flourishing While Being Weird

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97 | John Danaher on Our Coming Automated Utopia

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96 | Lina Necib on What and Where the Dark Matter Is

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95 | Liam Kofi Bright on Knowledge, Truth, and Science

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94 | Stuart Russell on Making Artificial Intelligence Compatible with Humans

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93 | Rae Wynn-Grant on Bears, Humans, and Other Predators

334

92 | Kevin Hand on Life Elsewhere in the Solar System

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91 | Scott Barry Kaufman on the Psychology of Transcendence

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90 | David Kaiser on Science, Money, and Power

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89 | Lera Boroditsky on Language, Thought, Space, and Time

338

Tara Smith on Coronavirus, Pandemics, and What We Can Do

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88 | Neil Shubin on Evolution, Genes, and Dramatic Transitions

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87 | Karl Friston on Brains, Predictions, and Free Energy

341

86 | Martin Rees on Threats to Humanity, Prospects for Posthumanity, and Life in the Universe

342

85 | L.A. Paul on Transformative Experiences and Your Future Selves

343

84 | Suresh Naidu on Capitalism, Monopsony, and Inequality

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83 | Kwame Anthony Appiah on Identity, Stories, and Cosmopolitanism

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82 | Robin Carhart-Harris on Psychedelics and the Brain

346

81 | Ezra Klein on Politics, Polarization, and Identity

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80 | Jenann Ismael on Connecting Physics to the World of Experience

348

79 | Sara Imari Walker on Information and the Origin of Life

349

78 | Daniel Dennett on Minds, Patterns, and the Scientific Image

350

Holiday Message 2019: On Publishing Books

351

77 | Azra Raza on The Way We Should Fight Cancer

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76 | Ned Hall on Possible Worlds and the Laws of Nature

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75 | Max Tegmark on Reality, Simulation, and the Multiverse

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74 | Stephen Greenblatt on Stories, History, and Cultural Poetics

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73 | Grimes (c) on Music, Creativity, and Digital Personae

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72 | César Hidalgo on Information in Societies, Economies, and the Universe

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71 | Philip Goff on Consciousness Everywhere

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70 | Katie Mack on How the Universe Will End

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69 | Cory Doctorow on Technology, Monopoly, and the Future of the Internet

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68 | Melanie Mitchell on Artificial Intelligence and the Challenge of Common Sense

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67 | Kate Jeffery on Entropy, Complexity, and Evolution

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66 | Will Wilkinson on Partisan Polarization and the Urban/Rural Divide

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65 | Michael Mann on Why Our Climate Is Changing and How We Know

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64 | Ramez Naam on Renewable Energy and an Optimistic Future

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63 | Solo -- Finding Gravity Within Quantum Mechanics

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62 | Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Societies and People

367

61 | Quassim Cassam on Intellectual Vices and What to Do About Them

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60 | Lynne Kelly on Memory Palaces, Ancient and Modern

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59 | Adam Becker on the Curious History of Quantum Mechanics

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58 | Seth MacFarlane on Using Science Fiction to Explore Humanity

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57 | Astra Taylor on the Promise and Challenge of Democracy

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56 | Kate Adamala on Creating Synthetic Life

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55 | A Conversation with Rob Reid on Quantum Mechanics and Many Worlds

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54 | Indre Viskontas on Music and the Brain

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53 | Solo -- On Morality and Rationality

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52 | Frank Lantz on the Logic and Emotion of Games

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51 | Anthony Aguirre on Cosmology, Zen, Entropy, and Information

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50 | Patricia Churchland on Conscience, Morality, and the Brain

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49 | Nicholas Christakis on Humanity, Biology, and What Makes Us Good

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48 | Marq de Villiers on Hell and Damnation

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47 | Adam Rutherford on Humans, Animals, and Life in General

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46 | Kate Darling on Our Connections with Robots

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45 | Leonard Susskind on Quantum Information, Quantum Gravity, and Holography

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44 | Antonio Damasio on Feelings, Thoughts, and the Evolution of Humanity

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43 | Matthew Luczy on the Pleasures of Wine

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42 | Natalya Bailey on Navigating Earth Orbit and Beyond

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41 | Steven Strogatz on Synchronization, Networks, and the Emergence of Complex Behavior

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40 | Adrienne Mayor on Gods and Robots in Ancient Mythology

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39 | Malcolm MacIver on Sensing, Consciousness, and Imagination

390

38 | Alan Lightman on Transcendence, Science, and a Naturalist's Sense of Meaning

391

37 | Edward Watts on the End of the Roman Republic and Lessons for Democracy

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36 | David Albert on Quantum Measurement and the Problems with Many-Worlds

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35 | Jessica Yellin on The Changing Ways We Get Our News

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34 | Paul Bloom on Empathy, Rationality, Morality, and Cruelty

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33 | James Ladyman on Reality, Metaphysics, and Complexity

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32 | Naomi Oreskes on Climate Change and the Distortion of Scientific Facts

397

31 | Brian Greene on the Multiverse, Inflation, and the String Theory Landscape

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30 | Derek Leben on Ethics for Robots and Artificial Intelligences

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29 | Raychelle Burks on the Chemistry of Murder

400

28 | Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Consciousness, and the Universe

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Holiday Message 2018

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27 | Janna Levin on Black Holes, Chaos, and the Narrative of Science

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26 | Ge Wang on Artful Design, Computers, and Music

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25 | David Chalmers on Consciousness, the Hard Problem, and Living in a Simulation

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24 | Kip Thorne on Gravitational Waves, Time Travel, and Interstellar

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23 | Lisa Aziz-Zadeh on Embodied Cognition, Mirror Neurons, and Empathy

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22 | Joe Walston on Conservation, Urbanization, and the Way We Live on Earth

408

21 | Alex Rosenberg on Naturalism, History, and Theory of Mind

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20 | Scott Derrickson on Cinema, Blockbusters, Horror, and Mystery

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19 | Tyler Cowen on Maximizing Growth and Thinking for the Future

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18 | Clifford Johnson on What's So Great About Superstring Theory

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17 | Annalee Newitz on Science, Fiction, Economics, and Neurosis

413

16 | Coleen Murphy on Aging, Biology, and the Future

414

15 | David Poeppel on Thought, Language, and How to Understand the Brain

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14 | Alta Charo on Bioethics and the Law

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13 | Neha Narula on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of the Internet

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12 | Wynton Marsalis on Jazz, Time, and America

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11 | Mike Brown on Killing Pluto and Replacing It with Planet 9

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10 | Megan Rosenbloom on the Death Positive Movement

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9 | Solo -- Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing?

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8 | Carl Zimmer on Heredity, DNA, and Editing Genes

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7 | Yascha Mounk on Threats to Liberal Democracy

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6 | Liv Boeree on Poker, Aliens, and Thinking in Probabilities

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5 | Geoffrey West on Networks, Scaling, and the Pace of Life

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4 | Anthony Pinn on Humanism, Theology, and the Black Community

426

3 | Alice Dreger on Sexuality, Truth, and Justice

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2 | Carlo Rovelli on Quantum Mechanics, Spacetime, and Reality

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1 | Carol Tavris on Mistakes, Justification, and Cognitive Dissonance

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