On Being with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Keith Devlin with Krista Tippett

Keith Devlin is a mathematician and executive director of H-STAR at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Krista Tippett spoke with him on July 11, 2013. This interview is included in our show...

19 Sep 20131h 26min

Keith Devlin — The Joy of Math: Learning and What It Means To Be Human

Mathematical equations are like sonnets says Keith Devlin. What most of us learn in school, he says, doesn’t begin to convey what mathematics is. And technology may free more of us to discover the won...

19 Sep 201351min

Arthur Zajonc — Holding Life Consciously

What happens when you bring together science and poetry on something like color or light? Arthur Zajonc is a physicist and contemplative. And he says we can all investigate life as vigorously from the...

12 Sep 201351min

[Unedited] Arthur Zajonc with Krista Tippett

12 Sep 20131h 29min

Natalie Batalha — Exoplanets and Love: Science That Connects Us to One Another

A mission scientist with NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, Natalie Batalha hunts for exoplanets — Earth-sized planets beyond our solar system that might harbor life. She speaks about unexpected connectio...

29 Aug 201351min

[Unedited] Natalie Batalha with Krista Tippett

Natalie Batalha is a research astronomer at NASA Ames Research Center and a mission scientist with the Kepler Space Telescope. Krista Tippett spoke with her on December 13, 2012 via ISDN. This intervi...

29 Aug 20131h 16min

Kwame Anthony Appiah — Sidling Up to Difference: Social Change and Moral Revolutions

How can unimaginable social change happen in a world of strangers? Kwame Anthony Appiah is a philosopher who studies ethics and his parents’ marriage helped inspire the movie “Guess Who’s Coming to Di...

15 Aug 201351min

[Unedited] Kwame Anthony Appiah with Krista Tippett

Krista Tippett’s unedited interview with Kwame Anthony Appiah was recorded in 2011 and is included in our show, “Kwame Anthony Appiah — Sidling Up to Difference.” See more at http://onbeing.org/progra...

15 Aug 20131h 39min