156 - Fay Dowker: Wormholes, Quantum Gravity, and Causal Set Theory
Fay Dowker is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London, where she works broadly on quantum gravity, and more particularly on an approach called causal set theory that takes the most...
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155 - Tony Padilla: Mathematical Platonism, Intergalactic Doppelgängers, and Gigantic Numbers
Tony Padilla is Professor of Physics in the School of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Nottingham, where he is the Associate Director of the new Nottingham Centre of Gravity. Tony works in cos...
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154 - Richard Wolff: Karl Marx and the Myths of Marxism
Richard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor at The New School, where he works on economics in the Marxist tradition. This is Ri...
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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...
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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...
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