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AMA | March 2026

March 2, 2026 | 2
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345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe

February 23, 2026 | 8
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344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

February 16, 2026 | 1
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343 | Tom Griffiths on the Laws of Thought

February 9, 2026 | 2
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AMA | February 2026

February 2, 2026 | 6
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342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Morality, and Mind

January 26, 2026 | 10
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341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

January 19, 2026 | 3
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340 | Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on What Matters and Why It Matters

January 12, 2026 | 5
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339 | Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology

January 5, 2026 | 10
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Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University

December 22, 2025 | 1
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AMA | December 2025

December 15, 2025 | 3
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338 | Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos

December 8, 2025 | 3
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337 | Kevin Zollman on Game Theory, Signals, and Meaning

December 1, 2025 | 2
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336 | Anil Ananthaswamy on the Mathematics of Neural Nets and AI

November 24, 2025 | 7
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AMA | November 2025

November 17, 2025 | 6
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335 | Andrew Jaffe on Models, Probability, and the Universe

November 10, 2025 | 6
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334 | Daniel Whiteson on the Physics of and by Aliens

November 3, 2025 | 6
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333 | Gordon Pennycook on Unthinkingness, Conspiracies, and What to Do About Them

October 27, 2025 | 6
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332 | Dmitri Tymoczko on the Mathematics Behind Music

October 20, 2025 | 4
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AMA | October 2025

October 13, 2025 | 3
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331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse

October 6, 2025 | 5
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330 | Petter Törnberg on the Dynamics of (Mis)Information

September 29, 2025 | 6
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329 | Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge

September 22, 2025 | 4
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328 | Mary Roach on Replacing Parts of Our Bodies

September 15, 2025 | 2
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AMA | September 2025

September 8, 2025 | 2
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327 | Cass Sunstein on Liberalism

September 1, 2025 | 6
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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

August 18, 2025 | 3
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324 | Elizabeth Mynatt on Universities and the Importance of Basic Research

August 11, 2025 | 1
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AMA | August 2025

August 4, 2025 | 1
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323 | Jacob Barandes on Indivisible Stochastic Quantum Mechanics

July 28, 2025 | 10
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322 | Philip Pettit on Language, Agency, Politics, and Freedom

July 21, 2025 | 5
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321 | David Tong on Open Questions in Quantum Field Theory

July 14, 2025 | 11
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AMA | July 2025

July 7, 2025 | 5
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320 | Solo: Complexity and the Universe

June 30, 2025 | 4
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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

June 9, 2025 | Comments Off on 317 | Nicole Rust on Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders
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AMA | June 2025

June 2, 2025 | 2
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316 | Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper on the Big Bang and Before

May 26, 2025 | Comments Off on 316 | Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper on the Big Bang and Before
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