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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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AMA | April 2021

April 14, 2021 | 2
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142 | Charlie Jane Anders on Stories and How to Write Them

April 12, 2021 | 1
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141 | Zeynep Tufekci on Information and Attention in a Networked World

April 5, 2021 | 2
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140 | Dean Buonomano on Time, Reality, and the Brain

March 29, 2021 | 10
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139 | Elizabeth Anderson on Equality, Work, and Ideology

March 22, 2021 | 5
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138 | Daryl Morey on Analytics, Psychology, and Basketball

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AMA | March 2021

March 10, 2021 | 2
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137 | Justin Clarke-Doane on Mathematics, Morality, Objectivity, and Reality

March 8, 2021 | 3
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136 | Roderick Graham on Cyberspace, Race, and Cultural Conservatism

March 1, 2021 | 2
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135 | Shadi Bartsch on Plato, Vergil, Confucius, and Modernity

February 22, 2021 | 1
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AMA | February 2021

February 17, 2021 | 2
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134 | Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do

February 15, 2021 | 16
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133 | Ziya Tong on Realities We Don’t See

February 8, 2021 | 5
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Bonus | AIP Oral History Interview

February 4, 2021 | 6
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132 | Michael Levin on Growth, Form, Information, and the Self

February 1, 2021 | 14
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131 | Avi Loeb on Taking Aliens Seriously

January 25, 2021 | 12
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130 | Frank Wilczek on the Present and Future of Fundamental Physics

January 18, 2021 | 7
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129 | Solo: Democracy in America

January 11, 2021 | 19
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128 | Joe Henrich on the Weirdness of the West

January 4, 2021 | 3
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Holiday Message 2020 | The Screwy Universe

December 21, 2020 | 4
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127 | Erich Jarvis on Language, Birds, and People

December 14, 2020 | 3
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AMA | December 2020

December 9, 2020 | 3
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126 | David Stasavage on the Origin and History of Democracy

December 7, 2020 | 4
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125 | David Haig on the Evolution of Meaning from Darwin to Derrida

November 30, 2020 | 9
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