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Bonus | Cuts to Science Funding and Why They Matter

February 12, 2025 | 1
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304 | James Evans on Innovation, Consolidation, and the Science of Science

February 10, 2025 | 3
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AMA | February 2025

February 3, 2025 | 2
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303 | James P. Allison on Fighting Cancer with the Immune System

January 27, 2025 | 3
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302 | Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution

January 20, 2025 | 3
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301 | Tina Eliassi-Rad on Al, Networks, and Epistemic Instability

January 13, 2025 | 4
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300 | Solo: Does Time Exist?

January 6, 2025 | 13
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Holiday Message | Hits and Misses

December 23, 2024 | 4
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299 | Michael Wong on Information, Function, and the Origin of Life

December 16, 2024 | 3
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298 | Jeff Lichtman on the Wiring Diagram of the Brain

December 9, 2024 | 4
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AMA | December 2024

December 2, 2024 | 2
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297 | Emily Wilson on Homer, Poetry, and Translation

November 25, 2024 | 4
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296 | Brandon Ogbunu on Fitness Seascapes and the Course of Evolution

November 18, 2024 | 0
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295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality

November 11, 2024 | 21
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AMA | November 2024

November 4, 2024 | 6
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294 | Addy Pross on Dynamics, Stability, and Life

October 28, 2024 | 2
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293 | Doyne Farmer on Chaos, Crashes, and Economic Complexity

October 21, 2024 | 3
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292 | Jonathan Birch on Animal Sentience

October 14, 2024 | 7
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AMA | October 2024

October 7, 2024 | 11
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291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

September 30, 2024 | 5
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290 | Hahrie Han on Making Multicultural Democracy Work

September 23, 2024 | 3
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289 | Cari Cesarotti on the Next Generation of Particle Experiments

September 16, 2024 | 3
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288 | Max Richter on the Meaning of Classical Music Today

September 9, 2024 | 2
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AMA | September 2024

September 2, 2024 | 5
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287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History

August 26, 2024 | 4
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286 | Blaise Agüera y Arcas on the Emergence of Replication and Computation

August 19, 2024 | 13
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285 | Nate Silver on Prediction, Risk, and Rationality

August 12, 2024 | 6
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AMA | August 2024

August 5, 2024 | 2
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284 | Doris Tsao on How the Brain Turns Vision Into the World

July 29, 2024 | 20
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283 | Daron Acemoglu on Technology, Inequality, and Power

July 22, 2024 | 3
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282 | Joel David Hamkins on Puzzles of Reality and Infinity

July 15, 2024 | 10
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AMA | July 2024

July 8, 2024 | 7
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281 | Samir Okasha on the Philosophy of Agency and Evolution

July 1, 2024 | 4
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280 | François Chollet on Deep Learning and the Meaning of Intelligence

June 24, 2024 | 8
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279 | Ellen Langer on Mindfulness and the Body

June 17, 2024 | 23
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278 | Kieran Healy on the Technology of Ranking People

June 10, 2024 | 4
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Ask Me Anything

AMA | June 2024

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277 | Cumrun Vafa on the Universe According to String Theory

May 27, 2024 | 9
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276 | Gavin Schmidt on Measuring, Predicting, and Protecting our Climate

May 20, 2024 | 9
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275 | Solo: Quantum Fields, Particles, Forces, and Symmetries

May 13, 2024 | 10
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