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208 | Rick Beato on the Theory of Popular Music

August 22, 2022 | 9
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207 | William MacAskill on Maximizing Good in the Present and Future

August 15, 2022 | 6
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206 | Simon Conway Morris on Evolution, Convergence, and Theism

August 8, 2022 | 16
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AMA | August 2022

August 1, 2022 | 1
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205 | John Quiggin on Interest Rates and the Information Economy

July 25, 2022 | 7
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204 | John Asher Johnson on Hunting for Exoplanets

July 18, 2022 | 1
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203 | N.J. Enfield on Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Not Scientists

July 11, 2022 | 8
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AMA | July 2022

July 4, 2022 | 4
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202 | Andrew Papachristos on the Network Theory of Gun Violence

June 27, 2022 | 1
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201 | Ed Yong on How Animals Sense the World

June 20, 2022 | 3
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AMA | June 2022

June 13, 2022 | 1
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200 | Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse

June 6, 2022 | 12
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199 | Elizabeth Cohen on Time and Other Political Values

May 30, 2022 | 3
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198 | Nick Lane on Powering Biology

May 23, 2022 | 3
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197 | Catherine Brinkley on the Science of Cities

May 16, 2022 | 2
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AMA | May 2022

May 12, 2022 | 1
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196 | Judea Pearl on Cause and Effect

May 9, 2022 | 9
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195 | Richard Dawkins on Flight and Other Evolutionary Achievements

May 2, 2022 | 10
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194 | Frans de Waal on Culture and Gender in Primates

April 25, 2022 | 7
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193 | Daniels on Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

April 18, 2022 | 4
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AMA | April 2022

April 14, 2022 | 1
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192 | Nicole Yunger Halpern on Steampunk Quantum Thermodynamics

April 11, 2022 | 3
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191 | Jane McGonigal on How to Imagine the Future

April 4, 2022 | 1
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190 | Lea Goentoro on Regrowing Limbs

March 28, 2022 | 1
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189 | Brian Klaas on Power and the Temptation of Corruption

March 21, 2022 | 3
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AMA | March 2022

March 17, 2022 | 3
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188 | Arik Kershenbaum on What Aliens Will Be Like

March 14, 2022 | 3
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187 | Andrew Leigh on the Politics of Looming Disasters

March 7, 2022 | 10
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186 | Sherry Turkle on How Technology Affects Our Humanity

February 28, 2022 | 4
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185 | Arvid Ågren on the Gene’s-Eye View of Evolution

February 21, 2022 | 7
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184 | Gary Marcus on Artificial Intelligence and Common Sense

February 14, 2022 | 6
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AMA | February 2022

February 10, 2022 | 8
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183 | Michael Dine on Supersymmetry, Anthropics, and the Future of Particle Physics

February 7, 2022 | 11
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182 | Sally Haslanger on Social Construction and Critical Theory

January 31, 2022 | 7
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181 | Peter Dodds on Quantifying the Shape of Stories

January 24, 2022 | 1
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180 | Camilla Pang on Instructions for Being Human

January 17, 2022 | 4
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179 | David Reich on Genetics and Ancient Humanity

January 10, 2022 | 8
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178 | Jody Azzouni on What Is and Isn’t Real

January 3, 2022 | 20
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Holiday Message 2021 | On Disciplines & Cocktails

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AMA | December 2021

December 15, 2021 | 1
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