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175 | William Ratcliff on Multicellularity, Physics, and Evolution

November 29, 2021 | 6
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174 | Tai-Danae Bradley on Algebra, Topology, Language, and Entropy

November 22, 2021 | 5
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AMA | November 2021

November 17, 2021 | 8
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173 | Sylvia Earle on the Oceans, the Planet, and People

November 15, 2021 | 2
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172 | David Goyer on Televising the Fall of the Galactic Empire

November 8, 2021 | 3
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171 | Christopher Mims on Our Interconnected Industrial Ecology

November 1, 2021 | 7
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170 | Priya Natarajan on Galaxies, Black Holes, and Cosmic Anomalies

October 25, 2021 | 5
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169 | C. Thi Nguyen on Games, Art, Values, and Agency

October 18, 2021 | 3
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AMA | October 2021

October 14, 2021 | 1
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168 | Anil Seth on Emergence, Information, and Consciousness

October 11, 2021 | 23
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167 | Chiara Marletto on Constructor Theory, Physics, and Possibility

October 4, 2021 | 11
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166 | Betül Kaçar on Paleogenomics and Ancient Life

September 27, 2021 | 6
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165 | Kathryn Paige Harden on Genetics, Luck, and Fairness

September 20, 2021 | 4
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AMA | September 2021

September 16, 2021 | 4
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164 | Herbert Gintis on Game Theory, Evolution, and Social Rationality

September 13, 2021 | 5
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163 | Nigel Goldenfeld on Phase Transitions, Criticality, and Biology

September 6, 2021 | 6
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162 | Leidy Klotz on Our Resistance to Subtractive Change

August 30, 2021 | 9
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161 | W. Brian Arthur on Complexity Economics

August 23, 2021 | 10
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160 | Edward Slingerland on Confucianism, Daoism, and Wu Wei

August 16, 2021 | 9
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AMA | August 2021

August 12, 2021 | 8
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159 | Mari Ruti on Lack, Love, and Psychoanalysis

August 9, 2021 | 12
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158 | David Wallace on The Arrow of Time

August 2, 2021 | 35
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157 | Elizabeth Strychalski on Synthetic Cells and the Rules of Biology

July 26, 2021 | 5
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156 | Catherine D’Ignazio on Data, Objectivity, and Bias

July 19, 2021 | 4
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155 | Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental Physics

July 12, 2021 | 15
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AMA | July 2021

July 9, 2021 | 1
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154 | Reza Aslan on Religion, Metaphor, and Meaning

July 5, 2021 | 36
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153 | John Preskill on Quantum Computers and What They’re Good For

June 28, 2021 | 8
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152 | Charis Kubrin on Criminology, Incarceration, and Hip-Hop

June 21, 2021 | 2
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151 | Jordan Ellenberg on the Mathematics of Political Boundaries

June 14, 2021 | 1
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AMA | June 2021

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

June 7, 2021 | 2
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149 | Lee Smolin on Time, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality

May 31, 2021 | 6
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148 | Henry Farrell on Democracy as a Problem-Solving Mechanism

May 24, 2021 | 2
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147 | Rachel Laudan on Cuisine, Culture, and Empire

May 17, 2021 | 5
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AMA | May 2021

May 13, 2021 | 3
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146 | Emily Riehl on Topology, Categories, and the Future of Mathematics

May 10, 2021 | 2
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145 | Niall Ferguson on Histories, Networks, and Catastrophes

May 3, 2021 | 17
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144 | Solo: Are We Moving Beyond the Standard Model?

April 26, 2021 | 4
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143 | Julia Galef on Openness, Bias, and Rationality

April 19, 2021 | 7
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