164 - Geoffrey West: Complexity Theory and The Scaling Laws of Biology
Geoffrey West is Shannan Distinguished Professor and Past President at the Santa Fe Institute. He is a theoretical physicist who has worked broadly on topics related to elementary particles and their ...
8 Marras 20232h 8min
163 - Daniel Levitin: Songwriting and the Neuroscience of Music
Daniel Levitin is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience at McGill University and Founding Dean of Arts & Humanities at Minerva University. He is also a record producer, musician, and write...
5 Marras 20231h 8min
162 - Tim Palmer: Chaos Theory, Probabilistic Forecasting, and Climate Change
Tim Palmer is Royal Society Research Professor in Climate Physics at the University of Oxford, where he is a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Martin Institute and a Professorial Fellow at Jesus College. Ti...
3 Marras 20231h 56min
161 - James Owen Weatherall: Nothingness and the Physics of the Void
James Owen Weatherall is Professor of Logic and the Philosophy of Science and Department Chair at the University of California, Irvine, where he is also a member of the Institute for Mathematical Beha...
1 Marras 20231h 27min
160 - David Friedman: What is Anarcho-Capitalism?
David Friedman is Professor Emeritus at the Santa Clara University School of Law. While he was trained as a physicist, David is best known for his work in economics, and particularly his defense of an...
29 Loka 20231h 59min
159 - Erik Verlinde: Entropic Gravity, Black Holes, and the Holographic Principle
Erik Verlinde is Professor of Physics in the Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam, where he specializes in quantum gravity and string theory, black holes, and cosmology. In this episode, ...
27 Loka 20231h 51min
158 - Sheldon Solomon: Terror Management Theory and the Denial of Death
Sheldon Solomon is Professor of Psychology at Skidmore College. He is best known for developing terror management theory with Tom Pyszczynski and Jeff Greenberg, which explores human psychology and mo...
25 Loka 20231h 22min
157 - David Albert: The Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics
David Albert is the Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and one of the world’s most respected philosophers of physics. He is also the director of the Philosophical F...
22 Loka 20231h 54min
