148 - Lee Smolin: Presentism, Foundations of Mathematics, and Realism in Quantum Mechanics
Lee Smolin is a founding and senior faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is best known for contributions to quantum gravity as a co-inventor of loop quantum gravity an...
1 Loka 20231h 16min
147 - Yascha Mounk: Liberalism, Identity Politics, and the History of Equality
Yascha Mounk is a Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University. He is also a Contributing Editor at the Atlantic, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations,...
29 Syys 20231h 18min
146 - Christopher E. Mason & Igor Tulchinsky: Smart Weapons, Genetics, and Predictive Algorithms
Christopher E. Mason is Professor of Computational Genomics in Computational Biomedicine in the Institute for Computational Biomedicine and Professor of Neuroscience in the Brain and Mind Institute at...
27 Syys 202356min
145 - Deirdre McCloskey: What Is Classical Liberalism?
Deirdre McCloskey is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics and of History and Professor Emerita of English and of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is also Isaiah Berl...
24 Syys 20231h 56min
144 - Carl Wieman: Winning the Nobel Prize, Bose-Einstein Condensates, & Science Education
Carl Wieman is Cheriton Family Professor, Professor of Physics, and Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University and winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics for the production and observat...
22 Syys 20231h 58min
143 - Andrew Knoll: The Origins of Life on Earth
Andrew Knoll is the Fisher Professor of Natural History in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Andy’s work straddles the line between the early evolution of life on E...
20 Syys 20231h 54min
142 - Tim Maudlin: Carnap, Kuhn, Bell’s Inequality, & The Philosophy of Science
Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Founder and Director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. Tim is renowned as one of the leading philosophers of physics, and he ...
17 Syys 20232h 1min
141 - Norman Naimark: The History of Genocide
Norman Naimark is Robert & Florence McDonnell Professor of East European History at Stanford University. He is also Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution and the Institute of International Studies. ...
15 Syys 20232h 14min
