177 - Juan Maldacena: Quantum Gravity, String Theory, and the AdS/CFT Correspondence
Juan Maldacena is Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, where his work focuses on quantum gravity, string theory, and quantum field theories...
17 Dec 20232h 2min
176 - Brian Little: Personality Psychology and the Big Five Traits
Brian Little is Research Professor in the Department of Psychology at Cambridge University, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at Carleton, and a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School at the Univ...
13 Dec 20231h 48min
175 - Robert Plomin: Behavioral Genetics and the Blueprint of Human Behavior
Robert Plomin is MRC Research Professor of Behavioral Genetics at King’s College London. He has published over 800 papers, is among the hundred most cited psychologists of the twentieth century, and w...
12 Dec 20232h 3min
174 - Rebecca Goldstein: Spinoza, Atheism, and the Philosophy of Literature
Rebecca Goldstein is a philosopher and novelist. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University and studied with Thomas Nagel. She is a MacArthur Follow and was awarded the National Hu...
6 Dec 20231h 24min
173 - Ken Olum: What Are Cosmic Strings?
Ken Olum is Research Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Tufts University, where he works on exotic physics and topics in cosmology like cosmic strings, gravitational waves, anthro...
2 Dec 20231h 4min
172 - Joseph LeDoux: Neuroscience and The Four Realms of Human Existence
Joseph LeDoux is Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science, University Professor, Professor of Neural Science, Professor of Psychiatry, and Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York Uni...
29 Nov 20231h 31min
171 - Richard Haier: What Is Human Intelligence?
Richard Haier is Professor Emeritus in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, where he uses brain imagining and the tools of neuroscience to study learning, memory, and intell...
26 Nov 20231h 52min
170 - Sheldon Goldstein: Pilot Wave Theory and Bohmian Mechanics
Sheldon Goldstein is Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University, where he researches mathematical physics, the foundations of quantum mechanics, and Bohmian Mechanics. He is also Boa...
24 Nov 20231h 31min
