83 | How science is secretly driven by analogy – Melanie Mitchell
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83 | How science is secretly driven by analogy – Melanie Mitchell

Melanie Mitchell is a professor at the Santa Fe Institute and a leading thinker on artificial intelligence, analogy, and abstraction. She reflects on how analogy quietly drives creativity and scientific discovery even in the most rigorous fields. Analogies often emerge during moments of mental rest and don’t need to be accurate to nudge you into new avenues of thinking. We discuss how many core scientific concepts began as metaphors, how analogies can both illuminate and mislead, and whether ...

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88 | How AI dreams up new science – with Jure Leskovec

88 | How AI dreams up new science – with Jure Leskovec

What happens when AI starts doing science? We talk with Stanford computer scientist Jure Leskovec about AI agents that find patterns in large datasets, come up with hypotheses and try to kill them wit...

10 Elo 36min

87 | On the joys of being a young scientist

87 | On the joys of being a young scientist

What can early-career scientists teach us about creativity? For this special episode, we talked to PhD students and postdocs about their creative processes. They told us about finding scientific ideas...

13 Heinä 38min

86 | From punchlines to discovery – Sarah Adelman

86 | From punchlines to discovery – Sarah Adelman

What can comedy teach us about scientific discovery? With stand-up comedian and former research scientist Sarah Adelman, we discuss the surprising parallels between jokes and discoveries. Sarah shares...

22 Kesä 48min

85 | How laziness invites discovery – Robert Root-Bernstein

85 | How laziness invites discovery – Robert Root-Bernstein

Professor Robert Root-Bernstein has not only made many scientific discoveries, but has also written extensively about the creative process, including in Sparks of Genius (with Michele Root-Bernstein)...

8 Kesä 39min

84 | Every scientist is an artist – Lois Hetland

84 | Every scientist is an artist – Lois Hetland

Professor Lois Hetland, the former chair of art education at the Massachusetts College of Art, joins us to ask: what do artists and scientists truly share? We explore the striking parallels between ar...

13 Huhti 40min

82 | On being alone together – Amy Shyer & Alan Rodrigues

82 | On being alone together – Amy Shyer & Alan Rodrigues

Amy Shyer & Alan Rodrigues co-direct the Laboratory of Morphogenesis at Rockefeller University. They are also married. Together, we reflect on what it means to think creatively in biology. Amy and Ala...

2 Helmi 36min

81 | How to find your way by getting lost – Marina Dubova

81 | How to find your way by getting lost – Marina Dubova

It’s surprising that for centuries, scientists have left the study of how to do science largely to non-scientists. Not anymore – thanks to the young field of cognitive epistemology. In this episode, w...

12 Tammi 45min

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