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111 | Nick Bostrom on Anthropic Selection and Living in a Simulation

August 24, 2020 | 15
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110 | Neil Johnson on Complexity, Conflict, and Infodemiology

August 17, 2020 | 3
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109 | Jason Torchinsky on Our Self-Driving Future

August 10, 2020 | 2
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108 | Carl Bergstrom on Information, Disinformation, and Bullshit

August 3, 2020 | 4
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107 | Russ Shafer-Landau on the Reality of Morality

July 27, 2020 | 8
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106 | Stuart Bartlett on What “Life” Means

July 20, 2020 | 10
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105 | Ann-Sophie Barwich on the Science and Philosophy of Smell

July 13, 2020 | 6
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104 | David Rosen and Scott Miles on the Neuroscience of Music and Creativity

July 6, 2020 | 2
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photo: Peter Tannenbaum

103 | J. Kenji López-Alt on Cooking As and With Science

June 29, 2020 | 1
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102 | Maria Konnikova on Poker, Psychology, and Reason

June 22, 2020 | 4
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101 | David Baltimore on the Mysteries of Viruses

June 15, 2020 | 4
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100 | Solo: On Life and Its Meaning

June 8, 2020 | 8
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99 | Scott Aaronson on Complexity, Computation, and Quantum Gravity

June 1, 2020 | 5
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98 | Olga Khazan on Living and Flourishing While Being Weird

May 25, 2020 | 2
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97 | John Danaher on Our Coming Automated Utopia

May 18, 2020 | 9
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AMA | May 2020

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96 | Lina Necib on What and Where The Dark Matter Is

May 11, 2020 | 4
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95 | Liam Kofi Bright on Knowledge, Truth, and Science

May 4, 2020 | 9
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94 | Stuart Russell on Making Artificial Intelligence Compatible with Humans

April 27, 2020 | 4
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93 | Rae Wynn-Grant on Bears, Humans, and Other Predators

April 20, 2020 | 2
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92 | Kevin Hand on Life Elsewhere in the Solar System

April 13, 2020 | 5
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91 | Scott Barry Kaufman on the Psychology of Transcendence

April 6, 2020 | 7
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90 | David Kaiser on Science, Money, and Power

March 30, 2020 | 3
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89 | Lera Boroditsky on Language, Thought, Space, and Time

March 23, 2020 | 8
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Bonus | Tara Smith on Coronavirus, Pandemics, and What We Can Do

March 18, 2020 | 6
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88 | Neil Shubin on Evolution, Genes, and Dramatic Transitions

March 16, 2020 | 4
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87 | Karl Friston on Brains, Predictions, and Free Energy

March 9, 2020 | 16
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86 | Martin Rees on Threats to Humanity, Prospects for Posthumanity, and Life in the Universe

March 2, 2020 | 4
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85 | L.A. Paul on Transformative Experiences and Our Future Selves

February 24, 2020 | 7
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84 | Suresh Naidu on Capitalism, Monopsony, and Inequality

February 17, 2020 | 8
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83 | Kwame Anthony Appiah on Identity, Stories, and Cosmopolitanism

February 10, 2020 | 1
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82 | Robin Carhart-Harris on Psychedelics and the Brain

February 3, 2020 | 4
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81 | Ezra Klein on Polarization, Politics, and Identity

January 27, 2020 | 7
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80 | Jenann Ismael on Connecting Physics to the World of Experience

January 20, 2020 | 34
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79 | Sara Imari Walker on Information and the Origin of Life

January 13, 2020 | 18
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78 | Daniel Dennett on Minds, Patterns, and the Scientific Image

January 6, 2020 | 25
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Holiday Message 2019: On Publishing Books

December 22, 2019 | 8
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77 | Azra Raza on The Way We Should Fight Cancer

December 16, 2019 | 5
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76 | Ned Hall on Possible Worlds and the Laws of Nature

December 9, 2019 | 6
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75 | Max Tegmark on Reality, Simulation, and the Multiverse

December 2, 2019 | 11
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