153 - Alan Stern: New Horizons and Mankind’s First Mission to Pluto
Alan Stern is a planetary scientist, space program executive, aerospace consultant, and author. He leads NASA’s 880 million dollar New Horizons mission, which explored Pluto and its moons before headi...
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152 - Geraint F. Lewis: Is The Universe Fine-Tuned For Life?
Geraint F. Lewis is Professor of Astrophysics at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy in the University of Sydney’s School of Physics. While the focus of his research is on dark matter and energy, Gerai...
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151 - Michael Levin: Synthetic Life, Collective Intelligence, and Morphogenesis
Michael Levin is a Distinguished Professor in the Biology Department at Tufts University, where he holds the Vannevar Bush endowed Chair, and he is also associate faculty at the Wyss Institute at Harv...
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150 - John Mather: The Big Bang and the Cosmic Microwave Background
John Mather is a Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. He was the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for his role as Principl...
6 Loka 20231h 47min
149 - Jonathan Lear: Free Association and the Fundamental Rule of Psychoanalysis
Jonathan Lear is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Philosophy and at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is also a practicing psychoanal...
4 Loka 20232h 1min
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,...
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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
