{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"EdgeCast","home_page_url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm","feed_url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/json","description":"\"To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.\"","_fireside":{"pubdate":"2022-02-24T15:00:00.000-05:00","explicit":false,"copyright":"2025 by Edge Foundation, Inc.","owner":"Edge Foundation, Inc.","image":"https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images-2024/podcasts/images/2/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/cover.jpg?v=3"},"items":[{"id":"86a27996-bdb6-496a-a0ae-6ada5008483e","title":"Daniel Kahneman - Adversarial Collaboration","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/582","content_text":"DANIEL KAHNEMAN is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton University, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, and co-author (with Cass R. Sunstein and Olivier Sibony) of Noise. He is the winner of the 2013 Presidential Medal of Honor, and the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/daniel_kahneman-adversarial-collaboration","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/daniel_kahneman\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eDANIEL KAHNEMAN\u003c/a\u003e is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton University, author of \u003cem\u003eThinking, Fast and Slow\u003c/em\u003e, and co-author (with Cass R. Sunstein and Olivier Sibony) of \u003cem\u003eNoise\u003c/em\u003e. He is the winner of the 2013 Presidential Medal of Honor, and the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/daniel_kahneman-adversarial-collaboration\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/daniel_kahneman-adversarial-collaboration\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"DANIEL KAHNEMAN is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton University, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, and co-author (with Cass R. Sunstein and Olivier Sibony) of Noise. He is the winner of the 2013 Presidential Medal of Honor, and the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/daniel_kahneman-adversarial-collaboration","date_published":"2022-02-24T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/86a27996-bdb6-496a-a0ae-6ada5008483e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":64111842,"duration_in_seconds":1968}]},{"id":"0aa115ce-b737-4457-a9c8-86c46e55e643","title":"Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow: Positive Human Behavior","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/576","content_text":"MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI (1934-2021) (pronounced \"chick-SENT-me high\") was a Hungarian-born polymath who recognized and named the psychological concept of \"flow,\" a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity. He was Distinguished Professor of Management at Claremont Graduate University and the former head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago and of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Lake Forest College. \n\nHis research and theories in the psychology of optimal experience have revolutionized psychology and have been adopted in practice by national leaders such as Bill Clinton and Tony Blair as well as top members of the global executive elite who run the world's major corporations. Csikszentmihalyi is the author of several popular books about his theories, including the bestselling Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience; The Evolving Self: A Psychology for The Third Millennium; Creativity; and Finding Flow. The Wall Street Journal  has listed Flow among the six books \"every well-stocked business library should have.\" The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi-flow","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eMIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI\u003c/a\u003e (1934-2021) (pronounced \u0026quot;chick-SENT-me high\u0026quot;) was a Hungarian-born polymath who recognized and named the psychological concept of \u0026quot;flow,\u0026quot; a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity. He was Distinguished Professor of Management at Claremont Graduate University and the former head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago and of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Lake Forest College. \u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis research and theories in the psychology of optimal experience have revolutionized psychology and have been adopted in practice by national leaders such as Bill Clinton and Tony Blair as well as top members of the global executive elite who run the world\u0026#39;s major corporations. Csikszentmihalyi is the author of several popular books about his theories, including the bestselling \u003cem\u003eFlow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience\u003c/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Evolving Self: A Psychology for The Third Millennium\u003c/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eCreativity\u003c/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eFinding Flow\u003c/em\u003e. The \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c/em\u003e  has listed \u003cem\u003eFlow\u003c/em\u003e among the six books \u0026quot;every well-stocked business library should have.\u0026quot; The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi-flow\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi-flow\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI (1934-2021) (pronounced \"chick-SENT-me high\") was a Hungarian-born polymath who recognized and named the psychological concept of \"flow,\" a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity. He was Distinguished Professor of Management at Claremont Graduate University and the former head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago and of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Lake Forest College. \r\n\r\nHis research and theories in the psychology of optimal experience have revolutionized psychology and have been adopted in practice by national leaders such as Bill Clinton and Tony Blair as well as top members of the global executive elite who run the world's major corporations. Csikszentmihalyi is the author of several popular books about his theories, including the bestselling Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience; The Evolving Self: A Psychology for The Third Millennium; Creativity; and Finding Flow. The Wall Street Journal has listed Flow among the six books \"every well-stocked business library should have.\" The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi-flow","date_published":"2021-11-15T09:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/0aa115ce-b737-4457-a9c8-86c46e55e643.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":76450770,"duration_in_seconds":2383}]},{"id":"22400f85-5344-4078-ba12-faa269a126d6","title":"Larry Brilliant - A Very Bumpy Ride","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/575","content_text":"Epidemiologist and pandemic expert LARRY BRILLIANT, MD, is on the Advisory Board for Ending Pandemics. He is also on the board of the Skoll Foundation and was the founding executive director of Google's non-profit organization. Dr. Brilliant lived in India for more than a decade while working as a United Nations medical officer, where, in 1971, he helped run the successful World Health Organization (WHO) smallpox eradication program in South Asia. He also worked for the WHO polio eradication effort and Chaired the National Bio-Surveillance Advisory Subcommittee, created by President George W. Bush. He has won the TED Prize, TIME 100, and many honorary doctorates and is the author of Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventures of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/larry_brilliant-bumpy-ride","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eEpidemiologist and pandemic expert \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/larry_brilliant_md\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eLARRY BRILLIANT, MD,\u003c/a\u003e is on the Advisory Board for Ending Pandemics. He is also on the board of the Skoll Foundation and was the founding executive director of Google\u0026#39;s non-profit organization. Dr. Brilliant lived in India for more than a decade while working as a United Nations medical officer, where, in 1971, he helped run the successful World Health Organization (WHO) smallpox eradication program in South Asia. He also worked for the WHO polio eradication effort and Chaired the National Bio-Surveillance Advisory Subcommittee, created by President George W. Bush. He has won the TED Prize, TIME 100, and many honorary doctorates and is the author of \u003cem\u003eSometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventures of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History.\u003c/em\u003e The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/larry_brilliant-bumpy-ride\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/larry_brilliant-bumpy-ride\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"Epidemiologist and pandemic expert LARRY BRILLIANT, MD, is on the Advisory Board for Ending Pandemics. He is also on the board of the Skoll Foundation and was the founding executive director of Google's non-profit organization. Dr. Brilliant lived in India for more than a decade while working as a United Nations medical officer, where, in 1971, he helped run the successful World Health Organization (WHO) smallpox eradication program in South Asia. He also worked for the WHO polio eradication effort and Chaired the National Bio-Surveillance Advisory Subcommittee, created by President George W. Bush. He has won the TED Prize, TIME 100, and many honorary doctorates and is the author of Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventures of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/larry_brilliant-bumpy-ride","date_published":"2020-12-07T11:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/22400f85-5344-4078-ba12-faa269a126d6.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":89405787,"duration_in_seconds":5573}]},{"id":"ff58d692-1fa5-4837-9b88-56f2e404a84e","title":"David Kaiser - The Shifting Terrain of Scientific Inquiry","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/574","content_text":"DAVID KAISER is the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of physics at MIT. He is the author, most recently, of Quantum Legacies. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/david_kaiser-the-shifting-terrain-of-scientific-inquiry","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/david_kaiser\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eDAVID KAISER\u003c/a\u003e is the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of physics at MIT. He is the author, most recently, of \u003cem\u003eQuantum Legacies\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/david_kaiser-the-shifting-terrain-of-scientific-inquiry\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/david_kaiser-the-shifting-terrain-of-scientific-inquiry\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"DAVID KAISER is the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of physics at MIT. He is the author, most recently, of Quantum Legacies. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/david_kaiser-the-shifting-terrain-of-scientific-inquiry","date_published":"2020-07-13T09:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/ff58d692-1fa5-4837-9b88-56f2e404a84e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":68254157,"duration_in_seconds":2095}]},{"id":"559f0f94-8755-4770-9538-620a727127ca","title":"Ainissa Ramirez - Interrogating and Shaping the World Through Science","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/573","content_text":"AINISSA RAMIREZ is a materials scientist and science communicator. She is the author, most recently, of The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/ainissa_ramirez-interrogating-and-shaping-the-world-through-science","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/ainissa_ramirez\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eAINISSA RAMIREZ\u003c/a\u003e is a materials scientist and science communicator. She is the author, most recently, of \u003cem\u003eThe Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/ainissa_ramirez-interrogating-and-shaping-the-world-through-science\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/ainissa_ramirez-interrogating-and-shaping-the-world-through-science\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"AINISSA RAMIREZ is a materials scientist and science communicator. She is the author, most recently, of The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/ainissa_ramirez-interrogating-and-shaping-the-world-through-science","date_published":"2020-06-25T09:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/559f0f94-8755-4770-9538-620a727127ca.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":58428100,"duration_in_seconds":1777}]},{"id":"3d64188b-35b7-4b63-b7a4-bc7cc2bf8c36","title":"Stephen Wolfram - Computation All the Way Down","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/572","content_text":"STEPHEN WOLFRAM is a scientist, inventor, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. He is the creator of the symbolic computation program Mathematica and its programming language, Wolfram Language, as well as the knowledge engine Wolfram|Alpha. His most recent endeavor is The Wolfram Physics Project. He is also the author, most recently, of A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/stephen_wolfram-computation-all-the-way-down","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/stephen_wolfram\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eSTEPHEN WOLFRAM\u003c/a\u003e is a scientist, inventor, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. He is the creator of the symbolic computation program Mathematica and its programming language, Wolfram Language, as well as the knowledge engine Wolfram|Alpha. His most recent endeavor is The Wolfram Physics Project. He is also the author, most recently, of \u003cem\u003eA Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/stephen_wolfram-computation-all-the-way-down\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/stephen_wolfram-computation-all-the-way-down\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"STEPHEN WOLFRAM is a scientist, inventor, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. He is the creator of the symbolic computation program Mathematica and its programming language, Wolfram Language, as well as the knowledge engine Wolfram|Alpha. His most recent endeavor is The Wolfram Physics Project. He is also the author, most recently, of A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/stephen_wolfram-computation-all-the-way-down","date_published":"2020-06-19T09:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/3d64188b-35b7-4b63-b7a4-bc7cc2bf8c36.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":85708055,"duration_in_seconds":4197}]},{"id":"a55a6e3a-955e-4d4d-b180-b3ab25b37b2e","title":"Laurence C. Smith - How Humans Make the Earth Their Home","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/571","content_text":"LAURENCE C. SMITH is the John Atwater and Diana Nelson University Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University. He is the author, most recently, of Rivers of Power. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/laurence_c_smith-how-humans-make-the-earth-their-home","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/laurence_c_smith\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eLAURENCE C. SMITH\u003c/a\u003e is the John Atwater and Diana Nelson University Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University. He is the author, most recently, of \u003cem\u003eRivers of Power\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/laurence_c_smith-how-humans-make-the-earth-their-home\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/laurence_c_smith-how-humans-make-the-earth-their-home\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"LAURENCE C. SMITH is the John Atwater and Diana Nelson University Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University. He is the author, most recently, of Rivers of Power. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/laurence_c_smith-how-humans-make-the-earth-their-home","date_published":"2020-06-12T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/a55a6e3a-955e-4d4d-b180-b3ab25b37b2e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":69105784,"duration_in_seconds":3443}]},{"id":"5b7d245a-3c39-4956-aa00-dfbf62ce9ad5","title":"Toby Ord - We Have the Power to Destroy Ourselves Without the Wisdom to Ensure That We Don't","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/569","content_text":"TOBY ORD is a senior research fellow in philosophy at Oxford University and author of _The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. _The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/toby_ord-we-have-the-power-to-destroy-ourselves-without-the-wisdom-to-ensure-that-we","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/toby_ord\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eTOBY ORD\u003c/a\u003e is a senior research fellow in philosophy at Oxford University and author of _The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. _The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/toby_ord-we-have-the-power-to-destroy-ourselves-without-the-wisdom-to-ensure-that-we\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/toby_ord-we-have-the-power-to-destroy-ourselves-without-the-wisdom-to-ensure-that-we\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"TOBY ORD is a senior research fellow in philosophy at Oxford University and author of The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/toby_ord-we-have-the-power-to-destroy-ourselves-without-the-wisdom-to-ensure-that-we","date_published":"2020-04-06T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/5b7d245a-3c39-4956-aa00-dfbf62ce9ad5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":71700855,"duration_in_seconds":3584}]},{"id":"65657566-2c0b-437c-b024-317b21587cdb","title":"Donald Hoffman - Realism Is False","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/564","content_text":"DONALD D. HOFFMAN is a full professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author, most recently, of The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/donald_d_hoffman-realism-is-false","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/donald_d_hoffman\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eDONALD D. HOFFMAN\u003c/a\u003e is a full professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author, most recently, of \u003cem\u003eThe Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/donald_d_hoffman-realism-is-false\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/donald_d_hoffman-realism-is-false\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"DONALD D. HOFFMAN is a full professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author, most recently, of The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/donald_d_hoffman-realism-is-false","date_published":"2020-01-28T10:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/65657566-2c0b-437c-b024-317b21587cdb.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":73252529,"duration_in_seconds":3662}]},{"id":"52375c34-2632-4483-bbbf-4e4aec9acc73","title":"Lee Smolin - The Causal Theory of Views","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/563","content_text":"LEE SMOLIN, a theoretical physicist, is a founding and senior faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada. His main contributions have been so far to the quantum theory of gravity, to which he has been a co-inventor and major contributor to two major directions, loop quantum gravity and deformed special relativity. He is the author, most recently, of Einstein's Unfinished Revolution. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/lee_smolin-the-causal-theory-of-views","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/lee_smolin\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eLEE SMOLIN\u003c/a\u003e, a theoretical physicist, is a founding and senior faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada. His main contributions have been so far to the quantum theory of gravity, to which he has been a co-inventor and major contributor to two major directions, loop quantum gravity and deformed special relativity. He is the author, most recently, of \u003cem\u003eEinstein\u0026#39;s Unfinished Revolution\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/lee_smolin-the-causal-theory-of-views\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/lee_smolin-the-causal-theory-of-views\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"LEE SMOLIN, a theoretical physicist, is a founding and senior faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada. His main contributions have been so far to the quantum theory of gravity, to which he has been a co-inventor and major contributor to two major directions, loop quantum gravity and deformed special relativity. He is the author, most recently, of Einstein's Unfinished Revolution. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/lee_smolin-the-causal-theory-of-views","date_published":"2019-12-19T09:45:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/52375c34-2632-4483-bbbf-4e4aec9acc73.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":49996758,"duration_in_seconds":2499}]},{"id":"9bae0323-848a-456a-8106-f7041707e350","title":"Markus Gabriel - The Paradox of Self-Consciousness [11.11.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/561","content_text":"MARKUS GABRIEL, one of the founders of New Realism, holds the Chair for Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Bonn, where he is also Director of the International Center for Philosophy and the multidisciplinary Center for Science and Thought. He is the author of Why The World Does Not Exist.  The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/markus_gabriel-the-paradox-of-self-consciousness","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/markus_gabriel\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eMARKUS GABRIEL\u003c/a\u003e, one of the founders of New Realism, holds the Chair for Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Bonn, where he is also Director of the International Center for Philosophy and the multidisciplinary Center for Science and Thought. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eWhy The World Does Not Exist\u003c/em\u003e.  The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/markus_gabriel-the-paradox-of-self-consciousness\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/markus_gabriel-the-paradox-of-self-consciousness\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"MARKUS GABRIEL, one of the founders of New Realism, holds the Chair for Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Bonn, where he is also Director of the International Center for Philosophy and the multidisciplinary Center for Science and Thought. He is the author of Why The World Does Not Exist.  The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/markus_gabriel-the-paradox-of-self-consciousness","date_published":"2019-11-11T10:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/9bae0323-848a-456a-8106-f7041707e350.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":77453232,"duration_in_seconds":4840}]},{"id":"3b014703-eb7a-4cca-b316-3a238f4f7994","title":"Seth Lloyd - Communal Intelligence [10.28.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/560","content_text":"SETH LLOYD is a theoretical physicist at MIT; Nam P. Suh Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; external professor at the Santa Fe Institute; and author of Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/seth_lloyd-communal-intelligence","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/seth_lloyd\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eSETH LLOYD\u003c/a\u003e is a theoretical physicist at MIT; Nam P. Suh Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; external professor at the Santa Fe Institute; and author of \u003cem\u003eProgramming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/seth_lloyd-communal-intelligence\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/seth_lloyd-communal-intelligence\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"SETH LLOYD is a theoretical physicist at MIT; Nam P. Suh Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; external professor at the Santa Fe Institute; and author of Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/seth_lloyd-communal-intelligence","date_published":"2019-10-28T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/3b014703-eb7a-4cca-b316-3a238f4f7994.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":61430637,"duration_in_seconds":2538}]},{"id":"0e0b61a0-47ba-4d32-9073-f53e31a4d4d3","title":"Patricia Churchland - The Nature of Moral Motivation","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/559","content_text":"PATRICIA S. CHURCHLAND is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and adjunct professor at the Salk Institute. Her research has centered on the interface between neuroscience and philosophy, with a current focus on the association of morality and the social brain. She is the author of Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/patricia_s_churchland-the-nature-of-moral-motivation","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/patricia_s_churchland\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ePATRICIA S. CHURCHLAND\u003c/a\u003e is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and adjunct professor at the Salk Institute. Her research has centered on the interface between neuroscience and philosophy, with a current focus on the association of morality and the social brain. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eConscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/patricia_s_churchland-the-nature-of-moral-motivation\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/patricia_s_churchland-the-nature-of-moral-motivation\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"PATRICIA S. CHURCHLAND is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and adjunct professor at the Salk Institute. Her research has centered on the interface between neuroscience and philosophy, with a current focus on the association of morality and the social brain. She is the author of Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/patricia_s_churchland-the-nature-of-moral-motivation","date_published":"2019-10-16T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/0e0b61a0-47ba-4d32-9073-f53e31a4d4d3.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":79072120,"duration_in_seconds":2452}]},{"id":"68295ac6-98a2-42c5-8d53-05da7829b9c7","title":"Robert Pollack - Rethinking Our Vision of Success [10.10.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/558","content_text":"ROBERT POLLACK is a professor of biological sciences, and also serves as director of the University Seminars at Columbia University. He is the author of The Course of Nature, a book of drawings by the artist Amy Pollack, accompanied by his short explanatory essays. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/robert_pollack-rethinking-our-vision-of-success","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/robert_pollack\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eROBERT POLLACK\u003c/a\u003e is a professor of biological sciences, and also serves as director of the University Seminars at Columbia University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Course of Nature\u003c/em\u003e, a book of drawings by the artist Amy Pollack, accompanied by his short explanatory essays. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/robert_pollack-rethinking-our-vision-of-success\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/robert_pollack-rethinking-our-vision-of-success\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"ROBERT POLLACK is a professor of biological sciences, and also serves as director of the University Seminars at Columbia University. He is the author of The Course of Nature, a book of drawings by the artist Amy Pollack, accompanied by his short explanatory essays. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/robert_pollack-rethinking-our-vision-of-success","date_published":"2019-10-10T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/68295ac6-98a2-42c5-8d53-05da7829b9c7.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":63202228,"duration_in_seconds":1950}]},{"id":"71c48d7a-8800-465d-ac57-09f28fe0cf7d","title":"Philip Goff - A Post-Galilean Paradigm [9.24.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/556","content_text":"PHILIP GOFF is a philosopher and consciousness researcher at Durham University, UK, and author of Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness (forthcoming, 2019). The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_goff-a-post-galilean-paradigm","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/philip_goff\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ePHILIP GOFF\u003c/a\u003e is a philosopher and consciousness researcher at Durham University, UK, and author of \u003cem\u003eGalileo\u0026#39;s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness\u003c/em\u003e (forthcoming, 2019). The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_goff-a-post-galilean-paradigm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_goff-a-post-galilean-paradigm\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"PHILIP GOFF is a philosopher and consciousness researcher at Durham University, UK, and author of Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness (forthcoming, 2019). The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_goff-a-post-galilean-paradigm","date_published":"2019-09-24T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/71c48d7a-8800-465d-ac57-09f28fe0cf7d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":73797025,"duration_in_seconds":2271}]},{"id":"e8a2d69d-35db-4e95-a0db-4086c2739157","title":"Julian Barbour - The Universe Is Not in a Box [9.11.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/555","content_text":"JULIAN BARBOUR is a theoretical physicist specializing in the study of time and motion; emeritus visiting professor in physics at the University of Oxford; and author of The Janus Point (forthcoming, 2020) and The End of Time. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/julian_barbour-the-universe-is-not-in-a-box","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/julian_barbour\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eJULIAN BARBOUR\u003c/a\u003e is a theoretical physicist specializing in the study of time and motion; emeritus visiting professor in physics at the University of Oxford; and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Janus Point\u003c/em\u003e (forthcoming, 2020) and \u003cem\u003eThe End of Time\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/julian_barbour-the-universe-is-not-in-a-box\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/julian_barbour-the-universe-is-not-in-a-box\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"JULIAN BARBOUR is a theoretical physicist specializing in the study of time and motion; emeritus visiting professor in physics at the University of Oxford; and author of The Janus Point (forthcoming, 2020) and The End of Time. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/julian_barbour-the-universe-is-not-in-a-box","date_published":"2019-09-11T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/e8a2d69d-35db-4e95-a0db-4086c2739157.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":62463940,"duration_in_seconds":1928}]},{"id":"beba2159-2472-498a-9aaf-000703a04ab4","title":"W. Daniel Hillis - Emergences [9.4.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/554","content_text":"W. DANIEL HILLIS is an inventor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, Judge Widney Professor of Engineering and Medicine at USC, and author of The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/w_daniel_hillis-emergences","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/w_daniel_hillis\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eW. DANIEL HILLIS\u003c/a\u003e is an inventor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, Judge Widney Professor of Engineering and Medicine at USC, and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/w_daniel_hillis-emergences\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/w_daniel_hillis-emergences\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"W. DANIEL HILLIS is an inventor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, Judge Widney Professor of Engineering and Medicine at USC, and author of The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/w_daniel_hillis-emergences","date_published":"2019-09-04T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/beba2159-2472-498a-9aaf-000703a04ab4.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":46153554,"duration_in_seconds":2867}]},{"id":"0180640e-5b8c-4097-9730-63efa37429c6","title":"Peter Galison - Epistemic Virtues [8.21.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/553","content_text":"PETER GALISON is a science historian; Joseph Pellegrino University Professor and co-founder of the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University; and author of_ Einstein's Clocks and Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time_. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/peter_galison-epistemic-virtues","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/peter_galison\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ePETER GALISON\u003c/a\u003e is a science historian; Joseph Pellegrino University Professor and co-founder of the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University; and author of_ Einstein\u0026#39;s Clocks and Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time_. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/peter_galison-epistemic-virtues\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/peter_galison-epistemic-virtues\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"PETER GALISON is a science historian; Joseph Pellegrino University Professor and co-founder of the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University; and author of Einstein's Clocks and Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/peter_galison-epistemic-virtues","date_published":"2019-08-21T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/0180640e-5b8c-4097-9730-63efa37429c6.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":66586639,"duration_in_seconds":2353}]},{"id":"3129c9d5-1954-4039-8663-7466f3e39149","title":"George Dyson - AI That Evolves in the Wild [8.14.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/552","content_text":"GEORGE DYSON is a historian of science and technology and author of Darwin Among the Machines and Turing’s Cathedral. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/george_dyson-ai-that-evolves-in-the-wild","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/george_dyson\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eGEORGE DYSON\u003c/a\u003e is a historian of science and technology and author of \u003cem\u003eDarwin Among the Machines\u003c/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTuring’s Cathedral\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/george_dyson-ai-that-evolves-in-the-wild\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/george_dyson-ai-that-evolves-in-the-wild\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"GEORGE DYSON is a historian of science and technology and author of Darwin Among the Machines and Turing’s Cathedral. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/george_dyson-ai-that-evolves-in-the-wild","date_published":"2019-08-14T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/3129c9d5-1954-4039-8663-7466f3e39149.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":53853549,"duration_in_seconds":1682}]},{"id":"8f3bbc7d-b596-4b6f-b4df-695e0f7120b5","title":"David Chalmers - The Language of Mind [8.8.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/551","content_text":"DAVID CHALMERS is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at New York University. He is best known for his work on consciousness, including his formulation of the \"hard problem\" of consciousness. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/david_chalmers-the-language-of-mind","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/david_chalmers\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eDAVID CHALMERS\u003c/a\u003e is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at New York University. He is best known for his work on consciousness, including his formulation of the \u0026quot;hard problem\u0026quot; of consciousness. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/david_chalmers-the-language-of-mind\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/david_chalmers-the-language-of-mind\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"DAVID CHALMERS is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at New York University. He is best known for his work on consciousness, including his formulation of the \"hard problem\" of consciousness. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/david_chalmers-the-language-of-mind","date_published":"2019-08-08T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/8f3bbc7d-b596-4b6f-b4df-695e0f7120b5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":80160881,"duration_in_seconds":2428}]},{"id":"cd90ea6d-e9c2-44dc-9412-0b21e914259a","title":"Neil Gershenfeld - Morphogenesis for the Design of Design [7.31.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/549","content_text":"NEIL GERSHENFELD is the director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms; founder of the global fab lab network; the author of FAB; and co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld \u0026amp; Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of Designing Reality. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/neil_gershenfeld-morphogenesis-for-the-design-of-design","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/neil_gershenfeld\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eNEIL GERSHENFELD\u003c/a\u003e is the director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms; founder of the global fab lab network; the author of \u003cem\u003eFAB\u003c/em\u003e; and co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld \u0026amp; Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of \u003cem\u003eDesigning Reality\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/neil_gershenfeld-morphogenesis-for-the-design-of-design\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/neil_gershenfeld-morphogenesis-for-the-design-of-design\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"NEIL GERSHENFELD is the director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms; founder of the global fab lab network; the author of FAB; and co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld \u0026 Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of Designing Reality. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/neil_gershenfeld-morphogenesis-for-the-design-of-design","date_published":"2019-07-31T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/cd90ea6d-e9c2-44dc-9412-0b21e914259a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":92641974,"duration_in_seconds":2875}]},{"id":"d4d37f39-9fb6-4978-a632-b476108c8fa0","title":"Frank Wilczek - Ecology of Intelligence [7.23.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/548","content_text":"FRANK WILCZEK is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT, recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics, and author of A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/frank_wilczek-ecology-of-intelligence","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/frank_wilczek\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eFRANK WILCZEK\u003c/a\u003e is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT, recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics, and author of \u003cem\u003eA Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/frank_wilczek-ecology-of-intelligence\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/frank_wilczek-ecology-of-intelligence\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"FRANK WILCZEK is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT, recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics, and author of A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/frank_wilczek-ecology-of-intelligence","date_published":"2019-07-23T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/d4d37f39-9fb6-4978-a632-b476108c8fa0.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":69518932,"duration_in_seconds":2163}]},{"id":"f3b88416-7d87-4844-b95d-5f9968891496","title":"Tom Griffiths - Humans: Doing More With Less [7.16.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/5471","content_text":"TOM GRIFFITHS is Henry R. Luce Professor of Information, Technology, Consciousness, and Culture at Princeton University. He is co-author (with Brian Christian) of Algorithms to Live By. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/tom_griffiths-humans-doing-more-with-less","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/tom_griffiths\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eTOM GRIFFITHS\u003c/a\u003e is Henry R. Luce Professor of Information, Technology, Consciousness, and Culture at Princeton University. He is co-author (with Brian Christian) of \u003cem\u003eAlgorithms to Live By\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/tom_griffiths-humans-doing-more-with-less\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/tom_griffiths-humans-doing-more-with-less\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"TOM GRIFFITHS is Henry R. Luce Professor of Information, Technology, Consciousness, and Culture at Princeton University. He is co-author (with Brian Christian) of Algorithms to Live By. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/tom_griffiths-humans-doing-more-with-less","date_published":"2019-07-16T01:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/f3b88416-7d87-4844-b95d-5f9968891496.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":73668218,"duration_in_seconds":2289}]},{"id":"77e6ebd8-80e0-4c7e-bdd5-b6ef59ae6e03","title":"Timothy Taylor - Polythetics and the Boeing 737 MAX [7.16.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/547","content_text":"TIMOTHY TAYLOR is a professor of the prehistory of humanity at the University of Vienna, and author of The Artificial Ape. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/timothy_taylor-polythetics-and-the-boeing-737-max","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/timothy_taylor\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eTIMOTHY TAYLOR\u003c/a\u003e is a professor of the prehistory of humanity at the University of Vienna, and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Artificial Ape\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/timothy_taylor-polythetics-and-the-boeing-737-max\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/timothy_taylor-polythetics-and-the-boeing-737-max\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"TIMOTHY TAYLOR is a professor of the prehistory of humanity at the University of Vienna, and author of The Artificial Ape. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/timothy_taylor-polythetics-and-the-boeing-737-max","date_published":"2019-07-16T01:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/77e6ebd8-80e0-4c7e-bdd5-b6ef59ae6e03.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":70389594,"duration_in_seconds":2160}]},{"id":"454d51dd-df51-4552-b73a-51e8882872b7","title":"Alison Gopnik - A Separate Kind of Intelligence [7.10.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/546","content_text":"ALISON GOPNIK is a developmental psychologist at UC Berkeley. Her books include The Philosophical Baby and, most recently, The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/alison_gopnik-a-separate-kind-of-intelligence","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/alison_gopnik\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eALISON GOPNIK\u003c/a\u003e is a developmental psychologist at UC Berkeley. Her books include \u003cem\u003eThe Philosophical Baby\u003c/em\u003e and, most recently, \u003cem\u003eThe Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/alison_gopnik-a-separate-kind-of-intelligence\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/alison_gopnik-a-separate-kind-of-intelligence\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"ALISON GOPNIK is a developmental psychologist at UC Berkeley. Her books include The Philosophical Baby and, most recently, The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/alison_gopnik-a-separate-kind-of-intelligence","date_published":"2019-07-10T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/454d51dd-df51-4552-b73a-51e8882872b7.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":80468940,"duration_in_seconds":2494}]},{"id":"7123f52a-7932-4182-9321-e4ae2c505a3e","title":"Robert Axelrod - Collaboration and the Evolution of Disciplines [7.1.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/545","content_text":"ROBERT AXELROD, Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding at the University of Michigan, is best known for his interdisciplinary work on the evolution of cooperation. He is author of The Evolution of Cooperation. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/robert_axelrod-collaboration-and-the-evolution-of-disciplines","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/robert_axelrod\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eROBERT AXELROD\u003c/a\u003e, Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding at the University of Michigan, is best known for his interdisciplinary work on the evolution of cooperation. He is author of \u003cem\u003eThe Evolution of Cooperation\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/robert_axelrod-collaboration-and-the-evolution-of-disciplines\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/robert_axelrod-collaboration-and-the-evolution-of-disciplines\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"ROBERT AXELROD, Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding at the University of Michigan, is best known for his interdisciplinary work on the evolution of cooperation. He is author of The Evolution of Cooperation. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/robert_axelrod-collaboration-and-the-evolution-of-disciplines","date_published":"2019-07-01T05:15:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/7123f52a-7932-4182-9321-e4ae2c505a3e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":80916087,"duration_in_seconds":2519}]},{"id":"5d4b88d4-1936-48d0-9923-6d0ab3ce38a2","title":"Barbara Tversky - The Geometry of Thought [6.25.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/544","content_text":"BARBARA TVERSKY is Professor Emerita of Psychology, Stanford University, and Professor of Psychology and Education, Columbia Teachers College. She is the author of Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/barbara_tversky-the-geometry-of-thought","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/barbara_tversky\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eBARBARA TVERSKY\u003c/a\u003e is Professor Emerita of Psychology, Stanford University, and Professor of Psychology and Education, Columbia Teachers College. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eMind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/barbara_tversky-the-geometry-of-thought\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/barbara_tversky-the-geometry-of-thought\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"BARBARA TVERSKY is Professor Emerita of Psychology, Stanford University, and Professor of Psychology and Education, Columbia Teachers College. She is the author of Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/barbara_tversky-the-geometry-of-thought","date_published":"2019-06-25T04:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/5d4b88d4-1936-48d0-9923-6d0ab3ce38a2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":32243419,"duration_in_seconds":1612}]},{"id":"f7c4aaa2-bcbe-4ac4-bbc7-c3233ec58237","title":"Caroline A. Jones - Questioning the Cranial Paradigm [6.19.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/543","content_text":"CAROLINE A. JONES is a professor of art history in the Department of Architecture at MIT and author, most recently, of The Global Work of Art. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/caroline_a_jones-questioning-the-cranial-paradigm","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/caroline_a_jones\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eCAROLINE A. JONES\u003c/a\u003e is a professor of art history in the Department of Architecture at MIT and author, most recently, of \u003cem\u003eThe Global Work of Art\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/caroline_a_jones-questioning-the-cranial-paradigm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/caroline_a_jones-questioning-the-cranial-paradigm\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"CAROLINE A. JONES is a professor of art history in the Department of Architecture at MIT and author, most recently, of The Global Work of Art. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/caroline_a_jones-questioning-the-cranial-paradigm","date_published":"2019-06-19T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/f7c4aaa2-bcbe-4ac4-bbc7-c3233ec58237.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":30919011,"duration_in_seconds":1545}]},{"id":"9b241eb2-96cc-46d7-9a72-d661a5963eb5","title":"Freeman Dyson - The Brain Is Full of Maps [6.11.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/542","content_text":"FREEMAN DYSON, emeritus professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, has worked on nuclear reactors, solid-state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology, looking for problems where elegant mathematics could be usefully applied. His books include Disturbing the Universe, Weapons and Hope, Infinite in All Directions, and Maker of Patterns. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/freeman_dyson-the-brain-is-full-of-maps","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/freeman_dyson\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eFREEMAN DYSON\u003c/a\u003e, emeritus professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, has worked on nuclear reactors, solid-state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology, looking for problems where elegant mathematics could be usefully applied. His books include \u003cem\u003eDisturbing the Universe\u003c/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWeapons and Hope\u003c/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eInfinite in All Directions\u003c/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMaker of Patterns\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/freeman_dyson-the-brain-is-full-of-maps\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/freeman_dyson-the-brain-is-full-of-maps\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"FREEMAN DYSON, emeritus professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, has worked on nuclear reactors, solid-state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology, looking for problems where elegant mathematics could be usefully applied. His books include Disturbing the Universe, Weapons and Hope, Infinite in All Directions, and Maker of Patterns. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/freeman_dyson-the-brain-is-full-of-maps","date_published":"2019-06-11T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/9b241eb2-96cc-46d7-9a72-d661a5963eb5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":49933647,"duration_in_seconds":1548}]},{"id":"f42aa897-594b-4c7f-b9c2-3b770ecc4ab1","title":"Andy Clark - Perception As Controlled Hallucination [6.6.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/541","content_text":"ANDY CLARK is professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the University of Sussex and author of Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/andy_clark-perception-as-controlled-hallucination","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/andy_clark\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eANDY CLARK\u003c/a\u003e is professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the University of Sussex and author of Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/andy_clark-perception-as-controlled-hallucination\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/andy_clark-perception-as-controlled-hallucination\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"ANDY CLARK is professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the University of Sussex and author of Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/andy_clark-perception-as-controlled-hallucination","date_published":"2019-06-06T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/f42aa897-594b-4c7f-b9c2-3b770ecc4ab1.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":75197878,"duration_in_seconds":2318}]},{"id":"715a35b0-9cb8-4e57-8623-451ece5c9770","title":"Stephen Wolfram - Mining the Computational Universe [5.30.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/540","content_text":"STEPHEN WOLFRAM is a scientist, inventor, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. He is the creator of the symbolic computation program Mathematica and its programming language, Wolfram Language, as well as the knowledge engine Wolfram|Alpha. He is also the author of A New Kind of Science. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/stephen_wolfram-mining-the-computational-universe","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/stephen_wolfram\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eSTEPHEN WOLFRAM\u003c/a\u003e is a scientist, inventor, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. He is the creator of the symbolic computation program Mathematica and its programming language, Wolfram Language, as well as the knowledge engine Wolfram|Alpha. He is also the author of \u003cem\u003eA New Kind of Science\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/stephen_wolfram-mining-the-computational-universe\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/stephen_wolfram-mining-the-computational-universe\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"STEPHEN WOLFRAM is a scientist, inventor, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. He is the creator of the symbolic computation program Mathematica and its programming language, Wolfram Language, as well as the knowledge engine Wolfram|Alpha. He is also the author of A New Kind of Science. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/stephen_wolfram-mining-the-computational-universe","date_published":"2019-05-30T09:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/715a35b0-9cb8-4e57-8623-451ece5c9770.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":36382260,"duration_in_seconds":1819}]},{"id":"3e340005-15f6-4f4d-898b-e2a9c101cb96","title":"Rodney Brooks - The Cul-de-Sac of the Computational Metaphor [5.13.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/537","content_text":"RODNEY BROOKS is Panasonic Professor of Robotics, emeritus, MIT; former director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the MIT Computer Science \u0026amp; Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL); founder, chairman, and CTO of Rethink Robotics; and author of Flesh and Machines. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/rodney_a_brooks-the-cul-de-sac-of-the-computational-metaphor","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/rodney_a_brooks\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eRODNEY BROOKS\u003c/a\u003e is Panasonic Professor of Robotics, emeritus, MIT; former director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the MIT Computer Science \u0026amp; Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL); founder, chairman, and CTO of Rethink Robotics; and author of \u003cem\u003eFlesh and Machines\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/rodney_a_brooks-the-cul-de-sac-of-the-computational-metaphor\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/rodney_a_brooks-the-cul-de-sac-of-the-computational-metaphor\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"RODNEY BROOKS is Panasonic Professor of Robotics, emeritus, MIT; former director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the MIT Computer Science \u0026 Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL); founder, chairman, and CTO of Rethink Robotics; and author of Flesh and Machines. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/rodney_a_brooks-the-cul-de-sac-of-the-computational-metaphor","date_published":"2019-05-13T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/3e340005-15f6-4f4d-898b-e2a9c101cb96.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":84785544,"duration_in_seconds":2624}]},{"id":"206f5d9c-9b6c-4d8b-a7c3-f406eaf80ea3","title":"Alexander Rose - How to Create an Institution that lasts 10,000 Years [4.24.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/536","content_text":"ALEXANDER ROSE is the executive director of The Long Now Foundation, manager of the 10,000 Year Clock Project, and curator of the speaking series' at The Interval and The Battery SF. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/alexander_rose-how-to-create-an-institution-that-lasts","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/alexander_rose\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eALEXANDER ROSE\u003c/a\u003e is the executive director of The Long Now Foundation, manager of the 10,000 Year Clock Project, and curator of the speaking series\u0026#39; at The Interval and The Battery SF. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/alexander_rose-how-to-create-an-institution-that-lasts\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/alexander_rose-how-to-create-an-institution-that-lasts\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"ALEXANDER ROSE is the executive director of The Long Now Foundation, manager of the 10,000 Year Clock Project, and curator of the speaking series' at The Interval and The Battery SF. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/alexander_rose-how-to-create-an-institution-that-lasts","date_published":"2019-04-24T10:30:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/206f5d9c-9b6c-4d8b-a7c3-f406eaf80ea3.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":70986525,"duration_in_seconds":2179}]},{"id":"6d1332a1-5eb5-42fa-b4b8-45443fbdbcc2","title":"Ian McEwan - Machines Like Me [4.16.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/535","content_text":"IAN MCEWAN is a novelist whose works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He is the recipient of the Man Booker Prize for Amsterdam (1998), the National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award, and the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction for Atonement (2003). His most recent novel is Machines Like Me. [Ian McEwan's Edge Bio Page](www.edge.org/memberbio/ian_mcewan)","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eIAN MCEWAN is a novelist whose works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He is the recipient of the Man Booker Prize for Amsterdam (1998), the National Book Critics\u0026#39; Circle Fiction Award, and the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction for Atonement (2003). His most recent novel is \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Machines-Like-Me-Ian-McEwan/dp/0385545118?SubscriptionId=AKIAJ6DR67ZTZ3XJCIHQ\u0026tag=edgeorg-20\u0026linkCode=xm2\u0026camp=2025\u0026creative=165953\u0026creativeASIN=0385545118\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eMachines Like Me\u003c/a\u003e. [Ian McEwan\u0026#39;s Edge Bio Page](\u003ca href=\"http://www.edge.org/memberbio/ian_mcewan\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ewww.edge.org/memberbio/ian_mcewan\u003c/a\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"","date_published":"2019-04-16T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/6d1332a1-5eb5-42fa-b4b8-45443fbdbcc2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":46587256,"duration_in_seconds":2329}]},{"id":"7dfcd9ca-56d7-4b1c-b7ab-d2500d8b7ebe","title":"David Chalmers, Daniel C. Dennett  - Is Superintelligence Impossible? [4.10.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/534","content_text":"*David Chalmers *is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at New York University. He is best known for his work on consciousness, including his formulation of the “hard problem” of consciousness;  Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of a dozen books, including Consciousness Explained, and, most recently, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/david_chalmers\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e*\u003cem\u003eDavid Chalmers *\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003eis University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at New York University. He is best known for his work on consciousness, including his formulation of the “hard problem” of consciousness;  \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/daniel_c_dennett\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaniel C. Dennett\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/a\u003e is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of a dozen books, including \u003cem\u003eConsciousness Explained\u003c/em\u003e, and, most recently, \u003cem\u003eFrom Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"David Chalmers is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at New York University. He is best known for his work on consciousness, including his formulation of the “hard problem” of consciousness;  Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of a dozen books, including Consciousness Explained, and, most recently, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds","date_published":"2019-04-10T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/7dfcd9ca-56d7-4b1c-b7ab-d2500d8b7ebe.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":76640645,"duration_in_seconds":3820}]},{"id":"06af6c1b-2ebe-492c-a4ed-67e7f8af363f","title":"Michele Gelfand - Cultural Intelligence [3.12.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/532","content_text":"MICHELE GELFAND is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire the World. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/michele_gelfand-cultural-intelligence","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eMICHELE GELFAND is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eRule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire the World.\u003c/em\u003e The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/michele_gelfand-cultural-intelligence\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/michele_gelfand-cultural-intelligence\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"MICHELE GELFAND is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire the World. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/michele_gelfand-cultural-intelligence","date_published":"2019-03-12T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/06af6c1b-2ebe-492c-a4ed-67e7f8af363f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":73224230,"duration_in_seconds":2249}]},{"id":"29aa3a45-5346-4ab7-82ec-f4ea6fbbe91f","title":"Possible Minds - Live at the Brattle Theater in Boston [2.21.2019]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/531","content_text":"","content_html":"","summary":"","date_published":"2019-03-04T08:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/29aa3a45-5346-4ab7-82ec-f4ea6fbbe91f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":66611839,"duration_in_seconds":5290}]},{"id":"6db622ad-1301-452c-bf09-811f140de97b","title":"Freeman Dyson - Biological and Cultural Evolution [2.19.2019]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/530","content_text":"FREEMAN DYSON, emeritus professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, in addition to fundamental contributions ranging from number theory to quantum electrodynamics, has worked on nuclear reactors, solid-state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology, looking for problems where elegant mathematics could be usefully applied. 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The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/susan_schneider-the-future-of-the-mind","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eSUSAN SCHNEIDER holds the Distinguished Scholar chair at the Library of Congress and is the director of the AI, Mind and Society (“AIMS”) Group at the University of Connecticut. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/susan_schneider-the-future-of-the-mind\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/susan_schneider-the-future-of-the-mind\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"SUSAN SCHNEIDER holds the Distinguished Scholar c…","date_published":"2019-01-28T10:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/d7e3c2b8-f8d4-44b0-98b8-e972793b5152.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":33786859,"duration_in_seconds":1677}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/555950457","title":"Jonathan Rodden - The Urban-Rural Divide: Why Geography Matters [1.16.19]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/526","content_text":"JONATHAN RODDEN is a professor in the Political Science Department at Stanford and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/jonathan_rodden-the-urban-rural-divide","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eJONATHAN RODDEN is a professor in the Political Science Department at Stanford and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/jonathan_rodden-the-urban-rural-divide\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/jonathan_rodden-the-urban-rural-divide\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"JONATHAN RODDEN is a professor in the Political S…","date_published":"2019-01-16T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/56440e91-fdba-42f6-abee-ca63a7f3dd90.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":97120864,"duration_in_seconds":2993}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/521783274","title":"Elaine Pagels - The Social History of Religion [12.12.18]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/523","content_text":"ELAINE PAGELS is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author, most recently, of Why Religion?: A Personal Story. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/elaine_pagels-the-social-history-of-religion","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eELAINE PAGELS is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author, most recently, of Why Religion?: A Personal Story. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/elaine_pagels-the-social-history-of-religion\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/elaine_pagels-the-social-history-of-religion\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"ELAINE PAGELS is the Harrington Spear Paine Profe…","date_published":"2018-12-12T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/ed097ab1-b658-43fc-af39-b7166e7d818e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":69925029,"duration_in_seconds":2166}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/532983255","title":"Peter Galison - How Technology Changes Our Concept of the Self [11.20.18]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/522","content_text":"PETER GALISON is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University and Director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.  The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/peter_galison-how-technology-changes-our-concept-of-the-self","content_html":"\u003cp\u003ePETER GALISON is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University and Director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.  The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/peter_galison-how-technology-changes-our-concept-of-the-self\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/peter_galison-how-technology-changes-our-concept-of-the-self\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"PETER GALISON is the Joseph Pellegrino University…","date_published":"2018-11-20T13:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/78a5083f-c68f-415c-8511-a2c00920543b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":24519739,"duration_in_seconds":753}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/512451609","title":"Karl Sigmund - When the Rule of Law Is Not Working [10.11.18]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/520","content_text":"KARL SIGMUND is professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna and one of the pioneers of evolutionary game theory. He is the author of Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/karl_sigmund-when-the-rule-of-law-is-not-working","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eKARL SIGMUND is professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna and one of the pioneers of evolutionary game theory. He is the author of Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/karl_sigmund-when-the-rule-of-law-is-not-working\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/karl_sigmund-when-the-rule-of-law-is-not-working\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"KARL SIGMUND is professor of mathematics at the U…","date_published":"2018-10-11T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/1ff5bd9e-374e-4254-a868-c521cce0ed9f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":70813740,"duration_in_seconds":2181}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/436087698","title":"Doyne Farmer - Collective Awareness [10.3.18]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/519","content_text":"J. 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The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/j_doyne_farmer-don_ross-collective-awareness\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/j_doyne_farmer-don_ross-collective-awareness\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"J. DOYNE FARMER is director of the Complexity Eco…","date_published":"2018-07-17T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/384434f7-f5d9-4378-a0dd-79251866b5e9.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":43822559,"duration_in_seconds":2179}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/439486701","title":"Brian Hare - Absolute Brain Size Matters [6.28.18]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/518","content_text":"BRIAN HARE is an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University in North Carolina and founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center. He is the co-author (with Vanessa Woods) of The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think. \n\nThe Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/brian_hare-absolute-brain-size-matters","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eBRIAN HARE is an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University in North Carolina and founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center. He is the co-author (with Vanessa Woods) of The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think. \u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/brian_hare-absolute-brain-size-matters\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/brian_hare-absolute-brain-size-matters\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"BRIAN HARE is an associate professor of evolution…","date_published":"2018-06-28T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/a8e0bcb9-89ec-4ea5-b65a-4eabd9ea970a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":55070360,"duration_in_seconds":2741}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/384581033","title":"Andrew Barron - The Connectomic Revolution [6.12.18]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/517","content_text":"ANDREW BARRON is the Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Deputy Head of the Department of Biological Sciences at Macquarie University. He is a neuroethologist with a particular focus on studying the neural mechanisms of honey bees. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/andrew_barron-the-connectomic-revolution","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eANDREW BARRON is the Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Deputy Head of the Department of Biological Sciences at Macquarie University. He is a neuroethologist with a particular focus on studying the neural mechanisms of honey bees. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/andrew_barron-the-connectomic-revolution\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/andrew_barron-the-connectomic-revolution\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"ANDREW BARRON is the Australian Research Council …","date_published":"2018-06-12T15:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/b521554f-4dfa-41c1-80ec-c428ee927048.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":73635759,"duration_in_seconds":2248}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/450823518","title":"Nicolas Berggruen - Bonding with Your Algorithm [6.5.18]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/516","content_text":"Investor and philanthropist NICOLAS BERGGRUEN is the chairman of the Berggruen Institute, and founder of the 21st Century Council, the Council for the Future of Europe, and the Think Long Committee for California. \nThe Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/nicolas_berggruen-bonding-with-your-algorithm","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eInvestor and philanthropist NICOLAS BERGGRUEN is the chairman of the Berggruen Institute, and founder of the 21st Century Council, the Council for the Future of Europe, and the Think Long Committee for California. \u003cbr\u003e\nThe Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/nicolas_berggruen-bonding-with-your-algorithm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/nicolas_berggruen-bonding-with-your-algorithm\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"Investor and philanthropist NICOLAS BERGGRUEN is …","date_published":"2018-06-05T14:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/7cd5e4a0-97bc-4403-8b74-4e204a6987d9.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":61767111,"duration_in_seconds":3076}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/448534119","title":"Martie Haselton - Sexual Double Standards [5.24.18]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/515","content_text":"​MARTIE HASELTON is a professor of psychology and communication studies at UCLA and the Institute for Society and Genetics. She is the author of Hormonal: The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones—How They Drive Desire, Shape Relationships, Influence Our Choices, and Make Us Wiser. \n\nThe Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/martie_haselton-sexual-double-standards","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e​MARTIE HASELTON is a professor of psychology and communication studies at UCLA and the Institute for Society and Genetics. She is the author of Hormonal: The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones—How They Drive Desire, Shape Relationships, Influence Our Choices, and Make Us Wiser. \u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/martie_haselton-sexual-double-standards\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/martie_haselton-sexual-double-standards\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"​MARTIE HASELTON is a professor of psychology and…","date_published":"2018-05-24T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/52d98d3f-c7ea-4b40-b397-c8312d0f3752.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":67730260,"duration_in_seconds":2086}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/441682839","title":"Murray Shanahan - The Space of Possible Minds [5.18.18]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/514","content_text":"MURRAY SHANAHAN is a professor of cognitive robotics at Imperial College London and a senior research scientist at DeepMind. \n\nThe Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/murray_shanahan-the-space-of-possible-minds","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eMURRAY SHANAHAN is a professor of cognitive robotics at Imperial College London and a senior research scientist at DeepMind. \u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/murray_shanahan-the-space-of-possible-minds\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/murray_shanahan-the-space-of-possible-minds\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"","date_published":"2018-05-18T14:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/bd66cf26-1ef6-42e3-9b68-42e026c1cbaa.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":34768431,"duration_in_seconds":1726}]},{"id":"98a356f5-6ca4-4b73-9a62-789c5086989b","title":"Sabine Hossenfelder - Looking in the Wrong Places [4.30.18]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/513","content_text":"SABINE HOSSENFELDER is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, an independent, multidisciplinary think tank dedicated to theoretical physics and adjacent fields, and author of Lost in Math. She is also a singer-songwriter whose music videos appear on her website sabinehossenfelder.com. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/sabine_hossenfelder-looking-in-the-wrong-places","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/sabine_hossenfelder\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eSABINE HOSSENFELDER\u003c/a\u003e is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, an independent, multidisciplinary think tank dedicated to theoretical physics and adjacent fields, and author of \u003cem\u003eLost in Math\u003c/em\u003e. She is also a singer-songwriter whose music videos appear on her website sabinehossenfelder.com. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/sabine_hossenfelder-looking-in-the-wrong-places\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/sabine_hossenfelder-looking-in-the-wrong-places\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"SABINE HOSSENFELDER is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, an independent, multidisciplinary think tank dedicated to theoretical physics and adjacent fields. She is also a singer-songwriter whose music videos appear on her website sabinehossenfelder.com. 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In 2004 she retired from her position as Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University, and is now Professor Emerita. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/mary_catherine_bateson-how-to-be-a-systems-thinker\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/mary_catherine_bateson-how-to-be-a-systems-thinker\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"MARY CATHERINE BATESON is a writer and cultural a…","date_published":"2018-04-15T21:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/9989be29-9442-4fda-9d60-769216396e49.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":50955553,"duration_in_seconds":2536}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/412708455","title":"Kai-Fu Lee - We Are Here To Create [3.26.18]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/510","content_text":"KAI-FU LEE, the founder of the Beijing-based Sinovation Ventures, is ranked #1 in technology in China by Forbes. Educated as a computer scientist at Columbia and Carnegie Mellon, his distinguished career includes working as a research scientist at Apple; Vice President of the Web Products Division at Silicon Graphics; Corporate Vice President at Microsoft and founder of Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing, one of the world’s top research labs; and then Google Corporate President and President of Google Greater China. As an Internet celebrity, he has fifty million+ followers on the Chinese micro-blogging website Weibo. As an author, among his seven bestsellers in the Chinese language, two have sold more than one million copies each. His first book in English is AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/kai_fu_lee-we-are-here-to-create","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eKAI-FU LEE, the founder of the Beijing-based Sinovation Ventures, is ranked #1 in technology in China by Forbes. Educated as a computer scientist at Columbia and Carnegie Mellon, his distinguished career includes working as a research scientist at Apple; Vice President of the Web Products Division at Silicon Graphics; Corporate Vice President at Microsoft and founder of Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing, one of the world’s top research labs; and then Google Corporate President and President of Google Greater China. As an Internet celebrity, he has fifty million+ followers on the Chinese micro-blogging website Weibo. As an author, among his seven bestsellers in the Chinese language, two have sold more than one million copies each. His first book in English is AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/kai_fu_lee-we-are-here-to-create\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/kai_fu_lee-we-are-here-to-create\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"KAI-FU LEE, the founder of the Beijing-based Sino…","date_published":"2018-03-19T10:15:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/61ea7d39-7664-41ea-ab2f-5ee35cd750c5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":48957178,"duration_in_seconds":2436}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/413124330","title":"Caroline A. Jones - A Common Sense [3.15.18]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/508","content_text":"CAROLINE A. JONES is professor of art history in the History, Theory, Criticism section of the Department of Architecture at MIT. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/caroline_a_jones-a-common-sense","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eCAROLINE A. 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The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/george_church-church-speaks\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/george_church-church-speaks\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"GEORGE CHURCH is professor of genetics at Harvard…","date_published":"2018-02-14T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/a4c19d8b-04d3-448f-9339-fcd618d60015.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":100795720,"duration_in_seconds":3137}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/378270380","title":"John Naughton - The State of Informed Bewilderment [1.3.18]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/505","content_text":"JOHN NAUGHTON is a senior research fellow at Cambridge University's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. He is an Internet columnist for the London Observer, and author of From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/john_naughton-the-state-of-informed-bewilderment","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eJOHN NAUGHTON is a senior research fellow at Cambridge University\u0026#39;s Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. He is an Internet columnist for the London Observer, and author of From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/john_naughton-the-state-of-informed-bewilderment\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/john_naughton-the-state-of-informed-bewilderment\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"JOHN NAUGHTON is a senior research fellow at Camb…","date_published":"2018-01-03T13:32:15.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/db59cc21-d6eb-4a92-bc1e-4d6f790d47cd.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":44771132,"duration_in_seconds":1385}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/356807624","title":"Daniel C. Dennett - \"A Difference That Makes a Difference\" [11.22.17]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/504","content_text":"DANIEL C. DENNETT is the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is the author, most recently, of _From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds. _\n\nThe Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/daniel_c_dennett-a-difference-that-makes-a-difference","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eDANIEL C. DENNETT is the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is the author, most recently, of _From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds. _\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/daniel_c_dennett-a-difference-that-makes-a-difference\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/daniel_c_dennett-a-difference-that-makes-a-difference\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"DANIEL C. DENNETT is the Austin B. 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He is a founding member of advisory boards for Google, AT\u0026amp;T, Nissan, and the UN Secretary General. He is the author of Social Physics, and Honest Signal. \u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/alex_sandy_pentland-the-human-strategy\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/alex_sandy_pentland-the-human-strategy\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"ALEX \"SANDY\" PENTLAND is a professor at MIT, and …","date_published":"2017-10-30T15:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/0d31fa7d-f8f6-4fd6-81b4-6b09475313ff.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":56049368,"duration_in_seconds":1730}]},{"id":"b925c57c-9a8f-48fe-bb05-ca8bfe0b95cc","title":"Rory Sutherland - Things to Hang on Your Mental Mug Tree [7.10.17]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/495","content_text":"RORY SUTHERLAND is Vice-Chairman, Ogilvy London; Columnist, The Spectator. 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Rory \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/rory_sutherland\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eRory Sutherland\u0026#39;s Edge Bio page\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/rory_sutherland\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/memberbio/rory_sutherland\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"","date_published":"2017-10-17T15:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/b925c57c-9a8f-48fe-bb05-ca8bfe0b95cc.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":82913863,"duration_in_seconds":2559}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344903675","title":"Tim O'Reilly - Reality is an Activity of the Most August Imagination [10.2.17]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/500","content_text":"TIM O'REILLY is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., and the author of WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/tim_oreilly-reality-is-an-activity-of-the-most-august-imagination","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eTIM O\u0026#39;REILLY is the founder and CEO of O\u0026#39;Reilly Media, Inc., and the author of WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/tim_oreilly-reality-is-an-activity-of-the-most-august-imagination\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/tim_oreilly-reality-is-an-activity-of-the-most-august-imagination\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"TIM O'REILLY is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly M…","date_published":"2017-10-02T09:52:56.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/4dcf1a2d-4233-477e-bd57-f2365f4ed93e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":63654150,"duration_in_seconds":1984}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/336877900","title":"Tom Griffiths - Aerodynamics For Cognition [8.21.17]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/498","content_text":"TOM GRIFFITHS is a professor of psychology and cognitive science and director of the Computational Cognitive Science Lab and the Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-author (with Brian Christian) of Algorithms to Live By. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/tom_griffiths-aerodynamics-for-cognition","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eTOM GRIFFITHS is a professor of psychology and cognitive science and director of the Computational Cognitive Science Lab and the Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-author (with Brian Christian) of Algorithms to Live By. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/tom_griffiths-aerodynamics-for-cognition\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/tom_griffiths-aerodynamics-for-cognition\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"TOM GRIFFITHS is a professor of psychology and co…","date_published":"2017-08-21T15:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/ceda68d7-45f4-4893-9048-25d3b813ea59.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":93459444,"duration_in_seconds":2917}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/337289971","title":"Brian Keating - Shut Up and Measure [10.20.17]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/502","content_text":"Professor BRIAN KEATING is an astrophysicist with the University of California San Diego’s Department of Physics. He and his team develop instrumentation to study the early universe at radio, microwave, and infrared wavelengths. He is the author of over 100 scientific publications and holds two U.S. patents. \n\nThe Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/brian_g_keating-shut-up-and-measure","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eProfessor BRIAN KEATING is an astrophysicist with the University of California San Diego’s Department of Physics. He and his team develop instrumentation to study the early universe at radio, microwave, and infrared wavelengths. He is the author of over 100 scientific publications and holds two U.S. patents. \u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/brian_g_keating-shut-up-and-measure\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/brian_g_keating-shut-up-and-measure\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"Professor BRIAN KEATING is an astrophysicist with…","date_published":"2017-08-10T09:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/7bc55f79-cb17-4cc8-9f15-cd4f0251ee8f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":90938226,"duration_in_seconds":2804}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/335257724","title":"Tania Lombrozo - Learning By Thinking [7.28.17]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/496","content_text":"TANIA LOMBROZO is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an affiliate of the Department of Philosophy and a member of the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences. She is a contributor to Psychology Today and the NPR blog 13.7: Cosmos and Culture. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/tania_lombrozo-learning-by-thinking","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eTANIA LOMBROZO is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an affiliate of the Department of Philosophy and a member of the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences. She is a contributor to Psychology Today and the NPR blog 13.7: Cosmos and Culture. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/tania_lombrozo-learning-by-thinking\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/tania_lombrozo-learning-by-thinking\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"TANIA LOMBROZO is a professor of psychology at th…","date_published":"2017-07-31T09:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/d76efb8f-d394-4545-90d5-628123e27b38.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":84012280,"duration_in_seconds":2616}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/329549346","title":"Daniel Goleman - Compassionate Systems [6.22.17]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/494","content_text":"DANIEL GOLEMAN is the New York Times bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence. A psychologist and science journalist, he reported on brain and behavioral research for The New York Times for many years. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including three accounts of meetings he has moderated between the Dalai Lama and scientists, psychotherapists, and social activists. \n\nThe Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/daniel_goleman-compassionate-systems","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eDANIEL GOLEMAN is the New York Times bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence. A psychologist and science journalist, he reported on brain and behavioral research for The New York Times for many years. 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The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/martin_rees-curtains-for-us-all\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/martin_rees-curtains-for-us-all\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"LORD MARTIN REES is a Fellow of Trinity College a…","date_published":"2017-05-31T13:12:07.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/8b317239-ea1f-4735-9d55-fe162df17555.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":101877053,"duration_in_seconds":3110}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/320231465","title":"Venki Ramakrishnan - Soul of a Molecular Machine [5.1.17]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/491","content_text":"VENKATRAMAN \"VENKI\" RAMAKRISHNAN is a Nobel Prize-winning biologist whose many scientific contributions include his work on the atomic structure of the ribosome. 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The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/venki_ramakrishnan-soul-of-a-molecular-machine\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/venki_ramakrishnan-soul-of-a-molecular-machine\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"VENKATRAMAN \"VENKI\" RAMAKRISHNAN is a Nobel Prize…","date_published":"2017-05-31T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/4528ea3e-d3d2-4b57-ac6a-0afd5dd420eb.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":62433133,"duration_in_seconds":3121}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/320231436","title":"Ross Anderson - The Threat [5.8.17]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/492","content_text":"ROSS ANDERSON is professor of security engineering at Cambridge University, and one of the founders of the field of information security economics. 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The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/ross_anderson-the-threat\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/ross_anderson-the-threat\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"ROSS ANDERSON is professor of security engineerin…","date_published":"2017-05-06T13:54:12.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/487fbc2a-5af1-450c-8807-571d03258c75.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":86174729,"duration_in_seconds":2656}]},{"id":"5a056ba4-8786-4f9a-8de9-0c0c1a880d1a","title":"Jonathan Losos: Urban Evolution [3.31.2017]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/490","content_text":"JONATHAN B. LOSOS is the Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America and Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, and Curator in Herpetology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. He is the author of Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution. Jonathan B. Losos's Edge Bio Page\n\nThe Conversation: \nhttps://www.edge.org/conversation/jonathan_b_losos-urban-evolution","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eJONATHAN B. LOSOS is the Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America and Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, and Curator in Herpetology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. He is the author of Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution. \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/jonathan_b_losos\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eJonathan B. 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Chris Anderson's Edge Bio Page\n\nThe conversation: \nhttps://www.edge.org/conversation/chris_anderson-closing-the-loop","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eCHRIS ANDERSON is the CEO of 3D Robotics and founder of DIY Drones. He is the former editor-in-chief of Wired magazine. \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/chris_anderson_1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eChris Anderson\u0026#39;s Edge Bio Page\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe conversation: \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/chris_anderson-closing-the-loop\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/chris_anderson-closing-the-loop\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"","date_published":"2017-03-07T21:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/d16b1d9b-8162-4715-892b-04ceeb59bbd7.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":31453478,"duration_in_seconds":1965}]},{"id":"054a73a7-0070-4d56-a458-ab52919d451f","title":"Dan Sperber: The Function of Reason [2.22.17]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/487","content_text":"DAN SPERBER is a Paris-based social and cognitive scientist. He holds an emeritus research professorship at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, and he is currently at Central European University, Budapest. He is the creator (with Deirdre Wilson) of \"Relevance Theory,\" and coauthor (with Hugo Mercier) of The Enigma of Reason. Dan Sperber's Edge Bio Page\n\nThe conversation:\nhttps://www.edge.org/conversation/dan_sperber-the-function-of-reason","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eDAN SPERBER is a Paris-based social and cognitive scientist. He holds an emeritus research professorship at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, and he is currently at Central European University, Budapest. He is the creator (with Deirdre Wilson) of \u0026quot;Relevance Theory,\u0026quot; and coauthor (with Hugo Mercier) of \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/dan_sperber\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eThe Enigma of Reason. Dan Sperber\u0026#39;s Edge Bio Page\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe conversation:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/dan_sperber-the-function-of-reason\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/dan_sperber-the-function-of-reason\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"","date_published":"2017-02-23T21:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/054a73a7-0070-4d56-a458-ab52919d451f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":69207315,"duration_in_seconds":4136}]},{"id":"b8df30e8-71c2-4edc-92b9-c9dea8174247","title":"Stuart Russell: Defining Intelligence [2.7.17]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/486","content_text":"STUART RUSSELL is a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley and coauthor (with Peter Norvig) of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Stuart Russell's Edge Bio Page\n\nThe conversation:\nhttps://www.edge.org/conversation/stuart_russell-defining-intelligence","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eSTUART RUSSELL is a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley and coauthor (with Peter Norvig) of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/stuart_russell\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eStuart Russell\u0026#39;s Edge Bio Page\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe conversation:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/stuart_russell-defining-intelligence\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/stuart_russell-defining-intelligence\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"","date_published":"2017-02-07T21:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/b8df30e8-71c2-4edc-92b9-c9dea8174247.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":58607451,"duration_in_seconds":3473}]},{"id":"ee7977e8-b053-4465-b4b5-e41407cfa578","title":"David Chalmers: The Mind Bleeds Into the World [1.24.17]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/485","content_text":"DAVID CHALMERS is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and Co-Director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at New York University. He is also Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. David Chalmers's Edge Bio Page\n\nThe conversation:\nhttps://www.edge.org/conversation/david_chalmers-the-mind-bleeds-into-the-world","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eDAVID CHALMERS is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and Co-Director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at New York University. He is also Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/david_chalmers\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eDavid Chalmers\u0026#39;s Edge Bio Page\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe conversation:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/david_chalmers-the-mind-bleeds-into-the-world\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/david_chalmers-the-mind-bleeds-into-the-world\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"","date_published":"2017-01-24T21:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/ee7977e8-b053-4465-b4b5-e41407cfa578.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":36166804,"duration_in_seconds":2260}]},{"id":"1a6d44dd-48f4-4f21-ba2d-a0ee1d874801","title":"Brian Christian: How Should a Society Be?  [12.1.16]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/483","content_text":"BRIAN CHRISTIAN is the author of The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive, and coauthor (with Tom Griffiths) of Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions. Brian Christian's Edge Bio Page\n\nThe conversation:\nhttps://www.edge.org/conversation/brian_christian-how-should-a-society-be","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eBRIAN CHRISTIAN is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive\u003c/em\u003e, and coauthor (with Tom Griffiths) of \u003cem\u003eAlgorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions\u003c/em\u003e. \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/brian_christian\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eBrian Christian\u0026#39;s Edge Bio Page\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe conversation:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/brian_christian-how-should-a-society-be\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/brian_christian-how-should-a-society-be\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"","date_published":"2016-12-01T21:30:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/1a6d44dd-48f4-4f21-ba2d-a0ee1d874801.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":38431725,"duration_in_seconds":2401}]},{"id":"f918d81e-4d47-40dd-80e6-e2463ec2de35","title":"Laurie R. Santos: Glitches [11.21.16]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/482","content_text":"LAURIE R. SANTOS is a professor of psychology at Yale University and the director of its Comparative Cognition Laboratory. Laurie Santos's Edge Bio Page\n\nThe conversation:\nhttps://www.edge.org/conversation/laurie_r_santos-glitches","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eLAURIE R. SANTOS is a professor of psychology at Yale University and the director of its Comparative Cognition Laboratory. \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/laurie_r_santos\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eLaurie Santos\u0026#39;s Edge Bio Page\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe conversation:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/laurie_r_santos-glitches\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/laurie_r_santos-glitches\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"","date_published":"2016-11-21T21:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/f918d81e-4d47-40dd-80e6-e2463ec2de35.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":44460368,"duration_in_seconds":2156}]},{"id":"e4bf4fce-2008-4aea-a65e-b4f263f19ad3","title":"David Rand: The Cost of Cooperationg [11.9.16]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/481","content_text":"DAVID RAND is an associate professor of psychology, economics, and management at Yale University, and the director of Yale University’s Human Cooperation Laboratory. David Rand's Edge Bio Page\n\nThe conversation:\nhttps://www.edge.org/conversation/david_rand-the-cost-of-cooperating","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eDAVID RAND is an associate professor of psychology, economics, and management at Yale University, and the director of Yale University’s Human Cooperation Laboratory.\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/david_rand\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e David Rand\u0026#39;s Edge Bio Page\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe conversation:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/david_rand-the-cost-of-cooperating\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/david_rand-the-cost-of-cooperating\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"","date_published":"2016-11-09T21:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/e4bf4fce-2008-4aea-a65e-b4f263f19ad3.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":44472071,"duration_in_seconds":2647}]},{"id":"0f7751b6-28fa-4543-8b6e-3cf13231ba80","title":"Judea Pearl: Engines of Evidence [10.24.16]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/480","content_text":"JUDEA PEARL, professor of computer science at UCLA, has been at the center of not one but two scientific revolutions. First, in the 1980s, he introduced a new tool to artificial intelligence called Bayesian networks. This probability-based model of machine reasoning enabled machines to function in a complex, ambiguous, and uncertain world. Within a few years, Bayesian networks completely overshadowed the previous rule-based approaches to artificial intelligence.\n\nLeveraging the computational benefits of Bayesian networks, Pearl realized that the combination of simple graphical models and probability (as in Bayesian networks) could also be used to reason about cause-effect relationships. The significance of this discovery far transcends its roots in artificial intelligence. His principled, mathematical approach to causality has already benefited virtually every field of science and social science, and promises to do more when popularized. \n\nHe is the author of Heuristics; Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems; and Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference. He is the winner of the Alan Turing Award. Judea Pearl's Edge Bio Page \n\nThe conversation:\n https://www.edge.org/conversation/judea_pearl-engines-of-evidence","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eJUDEA PEARL, professor of computer science at UCLA, has been at the center of not one but two scientific revolutions. First, in the 1980s, he introduced a new tool to artificial intelligence called Bayesian networks. This probability-based model of machine reasoning enabled machines to function in a complex, ambiguous, and uncertain world. Within a few years, Bayesian networks completely overshadowed the previous rule-based approaches to artificial intelligence.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLeveraging the computational benefits of Bayesian networks, Pearl realized that the combination of simple graphical models and probability (as in Bayesian networks) could also be used to reason about cause-effect relationships. The significance of this discovery far transcends its roots in artificial intelligence. His principled, mathematical approach to causality has already benefited virtually every field of science and social science, and promises to do more when popularized. \u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe is the author of Heuristics; Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems; and Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference. He is the winner of the Alan Turing Award. \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/judea_pearl\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eJudea Pearl\u0026#39;s Edge Bio Page \u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe conversation:\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/judea_pearl-engines-of-evidence\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/judea_pearl-engines-of-evidence\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"","date_published":"2016-10-24T21:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/0f7751b6-28fa-4543-8b6e-3cf13231ba80.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":29966797,"duration_in_seconds":1683}]},{"id":"79c82dc6-e05c-41c2-8249-57d55643fa5a","title":"Monica L. Smith: Infrastructure As Dialogue [9.20.16]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/479","content_text":"MONICA SMITH is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She holds the Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair in Indian Studies and serves as the director of the South Asian Archaeology Laboratory in the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. Monica Smith's Edge Bio Page\n\nThe conversation: \nhttps://www.edge.org/conversation/monica_l_smith-infrastructure-as-dialogue","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eMONICA SMITH is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She holds the Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair in Indian Studies and serves as the director of the South Asian Archaeology Laboratory in the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/monica_l_smith\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eMonica Smith\u0026#39;s Edge Bio Page\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe conversation: \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/monica_l_smith-infrastructure-as-dialogue\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/monica_l_smith-infrastructure-as-dialogue\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"","date_published":"2016-09-20T21:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/79c82dc6-e05c-41c2-8249-57d55643fa5a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":41333616,"duration_in_seconds":2583}]},{"id":"82d59d6e-9fc9-45f9-8be5-1a19a42682d3","title":"Seth Lloyd - Quantum Hanky-Panky","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/477","content_text":"SETH LLOYD, Professor, Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Principal Investigator, Research Laboratory of Electronics; Author, Programming the Universe. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/seth_lloyd-quantum-hanky-panky","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/seth_lloyd\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eSETH LLOYD\u003c/a\u003e, Professor, Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Principal Investigator, Research Laboratory of Electronics; Author, \u003cem\u003eProgramming the Universe\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/seth_lloyd-quantum-hanky-panky\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/seth_lloyd-quantum-hanky-panky\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"SETH LLOYD, Professor, Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Principal Investigator, Research Laboratory of Electronics; Author, Programming the Universe. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/seth_lloyd-quantum-hanky-panky","date_published":"2016-08-22T15:15:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/82d59d6e-9fc9-45f9-8be5-1a19a42682d3.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":94749949,"duration_in_seconds":2892}]},{"id":"f341d975-e688-478e-84ce-e0913234a98e","title":"Robert Plomin - Why We're Different [6.29.16]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/471","content_text":"ROBERT PLOMIN is a professor of behavioral genetics at King's College London and deputy director of the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. He is the author of Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/robert_plomin-why-were-different","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/robert_plomin\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eROBERT PLOMIN\u003c/a\u003e is a professor of behavioral genetics at King\u0026#39;s College London and deputy director of the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eBlueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/robert_plomin-why-were-different\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/robert_plomin-why-were-different\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"ROBERT PLOMIN is a professor of behavioral genetics at King's College London and deputy director of the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. He is the author of Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/robert_plomin-why-were-different","date_published":"2016-06-29T13:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/f341d975-e688-478e-84ce-e0913234a98e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":87668047,"duration_in_seconds":2710}]},{"id":"534e5cc8-92d4-4271-b649-68ac3c3d4ff2","title":"Molly Crockett \u0026 Daniel Kahneman - Deontology Or Trustworthiness? [6.16.16]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/470","content_text":"MOLLY CROCKETT is an associate professor of experimental psychology, fellow of Jesus College, and distinguished research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, University of Oxford. \n\nDANIEL KAHNEMAN is the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics (2002), and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2013). He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton, and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow.\n\nThe Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/molly_crockett-daniel_kahneman-deontology-or-trustworthiness","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/molly_crockett\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eMOLLY CROCKETT\u003c/a\u003e is an associate professor of experimental psychology, fellow of Jesus College, and distinguished research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, University of Oxford. \u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/daniel_kahneman\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eDANIEL KAHNEMAN\u003c/a\u003e is the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics (2002), and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2013). He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton, and author of \u003cem\u003eThinking, Fast and Slow\u003c/em\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/molly_crockett-daniel_kahneman-deontology-or-trustworthiness\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/molly_crockett-daniel_kahneman-deontology-or-trustworthiness\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"MOLLY CROCKETT is an associate professor of experimental psychology, fellow of Jesus College, and distinguished research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, University of Oxford. \r\n\r\nDANIEL KAHNEMAN is the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics (2002), and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2013). He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton, and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow.\r\n\r\nThe Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/molly_crockett-daniel_kahneman-deontology-or-trustworthiness","date_published":"2016-06-16T14:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/534e5cc8-92d4-4271-b649-68ac3c3d4ff2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":84011996,"duration_in_seconds":2579}]},{"id":"980d6608-f77a-430e-9c9a-530bafa3b56a","title":"June Gruber - Misunderstanding Positive Emotion [5.25.16]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/469","content_text":"JUNE GRUBER is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and director of the Positive Emotion and Psychopathology Laboratory. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/june_gruber-misunderstanding-positive-emotion","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/june_gruber\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eJUNE GRUBER\u003c/a\u003e is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and director of the Positive Emotion and Psychopathology Laboratory. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/june_gruber-misunderstanding-positive-emotion\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/june_gruber-misunderstanding-positive-emotion\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"JUNE GRUBER is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and director of the Positive Emotion and Psychopathology Laboratory. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/june_gruber-misunderstanding-positive-emotion","date_published":"2016-05-25T16:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/980d6608-f77a-430e-9c9a-530bafa3b56a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":68670167,"duration_in_seconds":2109}]},{"id":"6ec34a29-c44c-4548-9092-1a7156668bb0","title":"Paul Dolan - The Social Construction of Stories","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/468","content_text":"PAUL DOLAN is a professor of behavioral science at the London School of Economics and Political Science and author of Happiness by Design. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/paul_dolan-the-social-construction-of-stories","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/paul_dolan\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ePAUL DOLAN\u003c/a\u003e is a professor of behavioral science at the London School of Economics and Political Science and author of \u003cem\u003eHappiness by Design\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/paul_dolan-the-social-construction-of-stories\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/paul_dolan-the-social-construction-of-stories\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"PAUL DOLAN is a professor of behavioral science at the London School of Economics and Political Science and author of Happiness by Design. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/paul_dolan-the-social-construction-of-stories","date_published":"2016-05-13T16:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/6ec34a29-c44c-4548-9092-1a7156668bb0.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":72697767,"duration_in_seconds":2241}]},{"id":"8bbb2503-a0fe-4bee-8f5b-c99a88589205","title":"Gary Marcus - Is Big Data Taking Us Closer to the Deeper Questions in Artificial Intelligence? [5.4.16]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/467","content_text":"GARY MARCUS is CEO and founder, Geometric Intelligence; professor of psychology, New York University; author, Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/gary_marcus-is-big-data-taking-us-closer-to-the-deeper-questions-in-artificial","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/gary_marcus\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eGARY MARCUS\u003c/a\u003e is CEO and founder, Geometric Intelligence; professor of psychology, New York University; author, \u003cem\u003eGuitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/gary_marcus-is-big-data-taking-us-closer-to-the-deeper-questions-in-artificial\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/gary_marcus-is-big-data-taking-us-closer-to-the-deeper-questions-in-artificial\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"GARY MARCUS is CEO and founder, Geometric Intelligence; professor of psychology, New York University; author, Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/gary_marcus-is-big-data-taking-us-closer-to-the-deeper-questions-in-artificial","date_published":"2016-05-04T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/8bbb2503-a0fe-4bee-8f5b-c99a88589205.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":28093294,"duration_in_seconds":2340}]},{"id":"6612366b-6f68-414f-a1bb-5d71912fb6e3","title":"Frank Wilczek - Power Over Nature [4.20.16]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/465","content_text":"FRANK WILCZEK, currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT, has received many prizes for his work in physics, including the Nobel Prize (2004) for work he did as a graduate student at Princeton University. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/frank_wilczek-power-over-nature","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/frank_wilczek\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eFRANK WILCZEK\u003c/a\u003e, currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT, has received many prizes for his work in physics, including the Nobel Prize (2004) for work he did as a graduate student at Princeton University. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/frank_wilczek-power-over-nature\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/frank_wilczek-power-over-nature\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"FRANK WILCZEK, currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT, has received many prizes for his work in physics, including the Nobel Prize (2004) for work he did as a graduate student at Princeton University. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/frank_wilczek-power-over-nature","date_published":"2016-04-20T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/6612366b-6f68-414f-a1bb-5d71912fb6e3.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":35658251,"duration_in_seconds":2971}]},{"id":"3eb6da90-c94b-4af7-80fc-0c4a97976e80","title":"Joshua Knobe and Daniel Kahneman - A Characteristic Difference [4.26.16]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/466","content_text":"JOSHUA KNOBE is an experimental philosopher and professor of philosophy and cognitive science at Yale University. \n\nDANIEL KAHNEMAN is the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics (2002), and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2013). He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton, and author of Thinking Fast and Slow.\n\nThe Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/joshua_knobe-daniel_kahneman-a-characteristic-difference","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/joshua_knobe\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eJOSHUA KNOBE\u003c/a\u003e is an experimental philosopher and professor of philosophy and cognitive science at Yale University. \u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/daniel_kahneman\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eDANIEL KAHNEMAN\u003c/a\u003e is the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics (2002), and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2013). He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton, and author of \u003cem\u003eThinking Fast and Slow.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/joshua_knobe-daniel_kahneman-a-characteristic-difference\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/joshua_knobe-daniel_kahneman-a-characteristic-difference\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"JOSHUA KNOBE is an experimental philosopher and professor of philosophy and cognitive science at Yale University. \r\n\r\nDANIEL KAHNEMAN is the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics (2002), and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2013). He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton, and author of Thinking Fast and Slow.\r\n\r\nThe Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/joshua_knobe-daniel_kahneman-a-characteristic-difference","date_published":"2016-04-16T13:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/3eb6da90-c94b-4af7-80fc-0c4a97976e80.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":91754387,"duration_in_seconds":2815}]},{"id":"1f54629e-a3fb-496a-8d0c-07c9a4cf66fa","title":"George Church - The Augmented Human Being [3.30.16] ","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/464","content_text":"GEORGE CHURCH is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and director of the Personal Genome Project. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/george_church-the-augmented-human-being","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/george_church\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eGEORGE CHURCH\u003c/a\u003e is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and director of the Personal Genome Project. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/george_church-the-augmented-human-being\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/george_church-the-augmented-human-being\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"GEORGE CHURCH is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and director of the Personal Genome Project. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/george_church-the-augmented-human-being","date_published":"2016-03-30T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/1f54629e-a3fb-496a-8d0c-07c9a4cf66fa.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":35796177,"duration_in_seconds":2982}]},{"id":"74d34c09-ed51-42dc-8702-bf8daa491e49","title":"Janna Levin - Sounds of the Skies [3.23.16]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/463","content_text":"JANNA LEVIN is a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University. She is the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots; A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines; and most recently, Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/janna_levin-sounds-of-the-skies","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/janna_levin\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eJANNA LEVIN\u003c/a\u003e is a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eHow the Universe Got Its Spots\u003c/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eA Madman Dreams of Turing Machines\u003c/em\u003e; and most recently, \u003cem\u003eBlack Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/janna_levin-sounds-of-the-skies\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/janna_levin-sounds-of-the-skies\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"JANNA LEVIN is a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University. She is the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots; A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines; and most recently, Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/janna_levin-sounds-of-the-skies","date_published":"2016-03-23T17:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/74d34c09-ed51-42dc-8702-bf8daa491e49.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":81852688,"duration_in_seconds":2512}]},{"id":"f6e50837-aa8d-494b-ae56-20c898b3f75d","title":"Rebecca Newberger Goldstein - The Mattering Instinct [3.16.16]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/462","content_text":"REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN, awarded the 2014 National Humanities Medal by President Obama, is a philosopher, novelist, and professor of English and Philosophy at NYU. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/rebecca_newberger_goldstein-the-mattering-instinct","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/rebecca_newberger_goldstein\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eREBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN\u003c/a\u003e, awarded the 2014 National Humanities Medal by President Obama, is a philosopher, novelist, and professor of English and Philosophy at NYU. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/rebecca_newberger_goldstein-the-mattering-instinct\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/rebecca_newberger_goldstein-the-mattering-instinct\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN, awarded the 2014 National Humanities Medal by President Obama, is a philosopher, novelist, and professor of English and Philosophy at NYU. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/rebecca_newberger_goldstein-the-mattering-instinct","date_published":"2016-03-16T16:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/f6e50837-aa8d-494b-ae56-20c898b3f75d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":91782340,"duration_in_seconds":2821}]},{"id":"26d9af04-dfcd-4c73-b412-8d7a4ed7d7e7","title":"Howard Gardner - Liberal Arts and Sciences in the 21st Century [3.9.16]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/461","content_text":"HOWARD GARDNER is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Gardner also directs the Good Project.","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/howard_gardner\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eHOWARD GARDNER\u003c/a\u003e is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Gardner also directs the Good Project.\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"HOWARD GARDNER is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Gardner also directs the Good Project.","date_published":"2016-03-03T10:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/26d9af04-dfcd-4c73-b412-8d7a4ed7d7e7.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":84543900,"duration_in_seconds":2508}]},{"id":"7bd66ebf-646c-4c46-82d8-02e6cb9f9e05","title":"Stephen Wolfram - AI \u0026 The Future Of Civilization [3.1.16]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/460","content_text":"STEPHEN WOLFRAM, distinguished scientist, inventor, author, and business leader, is Founder \u0026amp; CEO, Wolfram Research; Creator, Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha \u0026amp; the Wolfram Language; Author, A New Kind of Science. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/stephen_wolfram-ai-the-future-of-civilization","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/stephen_wolfram\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eSTEPHEN WOLFRAM\u003c/a\u003e, distinguished scientist, inventor, author, and business leader, is Founder \u0026amp; CEO, Wolfram Research; Creator, Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha \u0026amp; the Wolfram Language; Author, \u003cem\u003eA New Kind of Science\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/stephen_wolfram-ai-the-future-of-civilization\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/stephen_wolfram-ai-the-future-of-civilization\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"STEPHEN WOLFRAM, distinguished scientist, inventor, author, and business leader, is Founder \u0026 CEO, Wolfram Research; Creator, Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha \u0026 the Wolfram Language; Author, A New Kind of Science. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/stephen_wolfram-ai-the-future-of-civilization","date_published":"2016-03-01T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/7bd66ebf-646c-4c46-82d8-02e6cb9f9e05.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":66482323,"duration_in_seconds":5540}]},{"id":"7e3a003b-9d06-46ee-9c47-8ebbdf78a6f1","title":"Ed Boyden - How the Brain is Computing the Mind [2.12.16] ","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/458","content_text":"ED BOYDEN is a professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at the MIT Media Lab and the MIT McGovern Institute. He leads the Synthetic Neurobiology Group. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/ed_boyden-how-the-brain-is-computing-the-mind","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/ed_boyden\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eED BOYDEN \u003c/a\u003eis a professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at the MIT Media Lab and the MIT McGovern Institute. He leads the Synthetic Neurobiology Group. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/ed_boyden-how-the-brain-is-computing-the-mind\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/ed_boyden-how-the-brain-is-computing-the-mind\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"ED BOYDEN is a professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at the MIT Media Lab and the MIT McGovern Institute. He leads the Synthetic Neurobiology Group. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/ed_boyden-how-the-brain-is-computing-the-mind","date_published":"2016-02-12T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/7e3a003b-9d06-46ee-9c47-8ebbdf78a6f1.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":33272435,"duration_in_seconds":2772}]},{"id":"10ae70fb-cc52-4a59-9b0e-66953fc21053","title":"David Reich - The Genomic Ancient DNA Revolution","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/459","content_text":"DAVID REICH is a geneticist and professor in the Department of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School. He is the author of Who We Are and How We Got Here. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/david_reich-the-genomic-ancient-dna-revolution","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/david_reich\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eDAVID REICH\u003c/a\u003e is a geneticist and professor in the Department of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eWho We Are and How We Got Here\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/david_reich-the-genomic-ancient-dna-revolution\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/david_reich-the-genomic-ancient-dna-revolution\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"DAVID REICH is a geneticist and professor in the Department of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School. He is the author of Who We Are and How We Got Here. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/david_reich-the-genomic-ancient-dna-revolution","date_published":"2016-02-01T13:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/10ae70fb-cc52-4a59-9b0e-66953fc21053.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":88183116,"duration_in_seconds":2708}]},{"id":"2274e09b-f173-47a3-8f32-086b27770305","title":"Richard Nisbett - The Crusade Against Multiple Regression Analysis [1.21.16]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/455","content_text":"RICHARD NISBETT is a professor of psychology and co-director of the Culture and Cognition Program at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking; and The Geography of Thought. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/richard_nisbett-the-crusade-against-multiple-regression-analysis","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/richard_nisbett\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eRICHARD NISBETT\u003c/a\u003e is a professor of psychology and co-director of the Culture and Cognition Program at the University of Michigan. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eMindware: Tools for Smart Thinking\u003c/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eThe Geography of Thought\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/richard_nisbett-the-crusade-against-multiple-regression-analysis\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/richard_nisbett-the-crusade-against-multiple-regression-analysis\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"RICHARD NISBETT is a professor of psychology and co-director of the Culture and Cognition Program at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking; and The Geography of Thought. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/richard_nisbett-the-crusade-against-multiple-regression-analysis","date_published":"2016-01-21T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/2274e09b-f173-47a3-8f32-086b27770305.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":72396044,"duration_in_seconds":2239}]},{"id":"ce8a22ab-4a02-433d-9110-4dc8373f3797","title":"Gloria Origgi - What Is Reputation? [11.5.15]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/452","content_text":"GLORIA ORIGGI is a researcher at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and a journalist. She is a best-selling novelist in the Italian language, a respected philosopher in French, a cognitive scientist in English, and the person you want to sit next to at a dinner party. Her latest book, La Reputation, was recently published in France. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/gloria_origgi-what-is-reputation","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/gloria_origgi\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eGLORIA ORIGGI\u003c/a\u003e is a researcher at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and a journalist. She is a best-selling novelist in the Italian language, a respected philosopher in French, a cognitive scientist in English, and the person you want to sit next to at a dinner party. Her latest book, \u003cem\u003eLa Reputation\u003c/em\u003e, was recently published in France. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/gloria_origgi-what-is-reputation\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/gloria_origgi-what-is-reputation\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"GLORIA ORIGGI is a researcher at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and a journalist. She is a best-selling novelist in the Italian language, a respected philosopher in French, a cognitive scientist in English, and the person you want to sit next to at a dinner party. Her latest book, La Reputation, was recently published in France. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/gloria_origgi-what-is-reputation","date_published":"2015-11-05T13:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/ce8a22ab-4a02-433d-9110-4dc8373f3797.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":100200113,"duration_in_seconds":3084}]},{"id":"77b45b56-c6da-4d92-b95d-540c72072319","title":"Jamil Zaki - Choosing Empathy  [10.20.15] ","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/451","content_text":"JAMIL ZAKI is an assistant professor of psychology at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/jamil_zaki-choosing-empathy","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/jamil_zaki\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eJAMIL ZAKI\u003c/a\u003e is an assistant professor of psychology at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/jamil_zaki-choosing-empathy\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/jamil_zaki-choosing-empathy\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"JAMIL ZAKI is an assistant professor of psychology at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/jamil_zaki-choosing-empathy","date_published":"2015-10-20T16:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/77b45b56-c6da-4d92-b95d-540c72072319.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":23117908,"duration_in_seconds":1926}]},{"id":"5708adc6-ad6d-4603-9cc6-dabb649bbd7f","title":"Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class V Part I [9.22.15]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/449","content_text":"PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of Expert Political Judgment and (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of Superforecasting: The Art \u0026amp; Science of Prediction . Class V Part I: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-v","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/philip_tetlock\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ePHILIP E. TETLOCK\u003c/a\u003e, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of \u003cem\u003eExpert Political Judgment\u003c/em\u003e and (with Aaron Belkin) \u003cem\u003eCounterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics\u003c/em\u003e, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of \u003cem\u003eSuperforecasting: The Art \u0026amp; Science of Prediction\u003c/em\u003e . Class V Part I: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-v\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-v\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of _Expert Political Judgment_ and (with Aaron Belkin) _Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics_, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of _Superforecasting: The Art \u0026 Science of Prediction_ . Class V Part I: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-v","date_published":"2015-09-22T14:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/5708adc6-ad6d-4603-9cc6-dabb649bbd7f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":48537215,"duration_in_seconds":1482}]},{"id":"01eb0612-a328-46c4-b910-fbdeb998b2b5","title":"Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class V Part II [9.22.15]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/4492","content_text":"PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of Expert Political Judgment and (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of Superforecasting: The Art \u0026amp; Science of Prediction . Class V Part II: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-v","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/philip_tetlock\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ePHILIP E. TETLOCK\u003c/a\u003e, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of \u003cem\u003eExpert Political Judgment\u003c/em\u003e and (with Aaron Belkin) \u003cem\u003eCounterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics\u003c/em\u003e, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of \u003cem\u003eSuperforecasting: The Art \u0026amp; Science of Prediction\u003c/em\u003e . Class V Part II: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-v\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-v\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of _Expert Political Judgment_ and (with Aaron Belkin) _Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics_, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of _Superforecasting: The Art \u0026 Science of Prediction_ . Class V Part II: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-v","date_published":"2015-09-22T14:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/01eb0612-a328-46c4-b910-fbdeb998b2b5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":57316761,"duration_in_seconds":1765}]},{"id":"174eeb47-9800-4463-a7c4-c5ce7f6d3dab","title":"Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class IV Part II [9.15.15]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/4482","content_text":"PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of Expert Political Judgment and (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of Superforecasting: The Art \u0026amp; Science of Prediction . Class IV Part II: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-iv","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/philip_tetlock\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ePHILIP E. TETLOCK\u003c/a\u003e, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of \u003cem\u003eExpert Political Judgment\u003c/em\u003e and (with Aaron Belkin) \u003cem\u003eCounterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics\u003c/em\u003e, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of \u003cem\u003eSuperforecasting: The Art \u0026amp; Science of Prediction\u003c/em\u003e . Class IV Part II: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-iv\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-iv\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of _Expert Political Judgment_ and (with Aaron Belkin) _Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics_, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of _Superforecasting: The Art \u0026 Science of Prediction_ . Class IV Part II: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-iv","date_published":"2015-09-15T14:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/174eeb47-9800-4463-a7c4-c5ce7f6d3dab.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":67252961,"duration_in_seconds":2054}]},{"id":"a03753e6-61a4-439c-a998-3a17d00c2ecb","title":"Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class III Part II [9.1.15]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/4472","content_text":"PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of Expert Political Judgment and (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of Superforecasting: The Art \u0026amp; Science of Prediction . Class III Part II: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-iii","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/philip_tetlock\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ePHILIP E. TETLOCK\u003c/a\u003e, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of \u003cem\u003eExpert Political Judgment\u003c/em\u003e and (with Aaron Belkin) \u003cem\u003eCounterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics\u003c/em\u003e, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of \u003cem\u003eSuperforecasting: The Art \u0026amp; Science of Prediction\u003c/em\u003e . Class III Part II: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-iii\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-iii\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of _Expert Political Judgment_ and (with Aaron Belkin) _Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics_, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of _Superforecasting: The Art \u0026 Science of Prediction_ . Class III Part II: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-iii","date_published":"2015-09-01T14:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/a03753e6-61a4-439c-a998-3a17d00c2ecb.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":90115083,"duration_in_seconds":2791}]},{"id":"9485d6de-9437-4fa5-898f-8aec13414354","title":"Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class III Part I [9.1.15]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/447","content_text":"PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of Expert Political Judgment and (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of Superforecasting: The Art \u0026amp; Science of Prediction . Class III Part I: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-iii","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/philip_tetlock\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ePHILIP E. TETLOCK\u003c/a\u003e, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of \u003cem\u003eExpert Political Judgment\u003c/em\u003e and (with Aaron Belkin) \u003cem\u003eCounterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics\u003c/em\u003e, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of \u003cem\u003eSuperforecasting: The Art \u0026amp; Science of Prediction\u003c/em\u003e . Class III Part I: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-iii\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-iii\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of _Expert Political Judgment_ and (with Aaron Belkin) _Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics_, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of _Superforecasting: The Art \u0026 Science of Prediction_ . Class III Part I: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-iii","date_published":"2015-09-01T14:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/9485d6de-9437-4fa5-898f-8aec13414354.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":60567081,"duration_in_seconds":1867}]},{"id":"7bc8b996-4ae2-4f92-8057-3a567ba44a46","title":"Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class II Part II [8.24.15]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/4462","content_text":"PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of Expert Political Judgment and (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of Superforecasting: The Art \u0026amp; Science of Prediction . Class II Part II: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-ii","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/philip_tetlock\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ePHILIP E. TETLOCK\u003c/a\u003e, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of \u003cem\u003eExpert Political Judgment\u003c/em\u003e and (with Aaron Belkin) \u003cem\u003eCounterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics\u003c/em\u003e, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of \u003cem\u003eSuperforecasting: The Art \u0026amp; Science of Prediction\u003c/em\u003e . Class II Part II: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-ii\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-ii\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of _Expert Political Judgment_ and (with Aaron Belkin) _Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics_, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of _Superforecasting: The Art \u0026 Science of Prediction_ . Class II Part II: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-ii","date_published":"2015-08-24T14:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/7bc8b996-4ae2-4f92-8057-3a567ba44a46.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":92601804,"duration_in_seconds":2873}]},{"id":"f39513d8-fb8d-4814-85e0-ea4cb9de1fb0","title":"Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class II Part I [8.24.15]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/446","content_text":"PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of Expert Political Judgment and (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of Superforecasting: The Art \u0026amp; Science of Prediction . Class II Part I: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-ii","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/philip_tetlock\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ePHILIP E. TETLOCK\u003c/a\u003e, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of \u003cem\u003eExpert Political Judgment\u003c/em\u003e and (with Aaron Belkin) \u003cem\u003eCounterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics\u003c/em\u003e, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of \u003cem\u003eSuperforecasting: The Art \u0026amp; Science of Prediction\u003c/em\u003e . Class II Part I: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-ii\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-ii\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of _Expert Political Judgment_ and (with Aaron Belkin) _Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics_, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of _Superforecasting: The Art \u0026 Science of Prediction_ . Class II Part I: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-ii","date_published":"2015-08-24T13:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/f39513d8-fb8d-4814-85e0-ea4cb9de1fb0.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":97045356,"duration_in_seconds":3003}]},{"id":"6da56d05-4292-44b1-a531-885263a7f7d9","title":"Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class I Part II [8.17.15]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/4452","content_text":"PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of Expert Political Judgment and (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of Superforecasting: The Art \u0026amp; Science of Prediction . Class I Part II: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-i","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/philip_tetlock\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ePHILIP E. TETLOCK\u003c/a\u003e, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of \u003cem\u003eExpert Political Judgment\u003c/em\u003e and (with Aaron Belkin) \u003cem\u003eCounterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics\u003c/em\u003e, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of \u003cem\u003eSuperforecasting: The Art \u0026amp; Science of Prediction\u003c/em\u003e . Class I Part II: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-i\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-i\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of _Expert Political Judgment_ and (with Aaron Belkin) _Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics_, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of _Superforecasting: The Art \u0026 Science of Prediction_ . Class I Part II: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-i","date_published":"2015-08-17T13:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/6da56d05-4292-44b1-a531-885263a7f7d9.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":87356665,"duration_in_seconds":2703}]},{"id":"8ddb43e7-d897-42a7-90a3-a954e717145e","title":"Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class I Part I [8.17.15]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/445","content_text":"PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of Expert Political Judgment and (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of Superforecasting: The Art \u0026amp; Science of Prediction . Class I Part I: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-i","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/philip_tetlock\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ePHILIP E. TETLOCK\u003c/a\u003e, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of \u003cem\u003eExpert Political Judgment\u003c/em\u003e and (with Aaron Belkin) \u003cem\u003eCounterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics\u003c/em\u003e, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of \u003cem\u003eSuperforecasting: The Art \u0026amp; Science of Prediction\u003c/em\u003e . Class I Part I: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-i\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-i\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"PHILIP E. TETLOCK, Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of _Expert Political Judgment_ and (with Aaron Belkin) _Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics_, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of _Superforecasting: The Art \u0026 Science of Prediction_ . Class I Part I: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-i","date_published":"2015-08-17T13:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/8ddb43e7-d897-42a7-90a3-a954e717145e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":77178292,"duration_in_seconds":2383}]},{"id":"d8692a2a-1d6a-49b2-9919-4a0b04f44cc3","title":"John Markoff - The Next Wave [7.16.15]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/444","content_text":"JOHN MARKOFF is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who covers science and technology for The New York Times. His most recent book is the forthcoming Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/john_markoff-the-next-wave","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eJOHN MARKOFF is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who covers science and technology for \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c/em\u003e. His most recent book is the forthcoming \u003cem\u003eMachines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots.\u003c/em\u003e The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/john_markoff-the-next-wave\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/john_markoff-the-next-wave\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"JOHN MARKOFF is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who covers science and technology for The New York Times. His most recent book is the forthcoming Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/john_markoff-the-next-wave","date_published":"2015-07-16T13:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/d8692a2a-1d6a-49b2-9919-4a0b04f44cc3.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":74411634,"duration_in_seconds":2303}]},{"id":"0f30694c-66c4-42fe-947a-3eaa08d1f9ad","title":"Priyamvada Natarajan - The Exquisite Role of Dark Matter [6.10.15] ","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/443","content_text":"PRIYAMVADA NATARAJAN is a professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University, whose research is focused on exotica in the universe—dark matter, dark energy, and black holes. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/priyamvada_natarajan-the-exquisite-role-of-dark-matter","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/priyamvada_natarajan\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ePRIYAMVADA NATARAJAN\u003c/a\u003e is a professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University, whose research is focused on exotica in the universe—dark matter, dark energy, and black holes. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/priyamvada_natarajan-the-exquisite-role-of-dark-matter\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/priyamvada_natarajan-the-exquisite-role-of-dark-matter\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"PRIYAMVADA NATARAJAN is a professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University, whose research is focused on exotica in the universe—dark matter, dark energy, and black holes. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/priyamvada_natarajan-the-exquisite-role-of-dark-matter","date_published":"2015-06-10T11:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/0f30694c-66c4-42fe-947a-3eaa08d1f9ad.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":67514814,"duration_in_seconds":2082}]},{"id":"da946c7e-f71c-49b8-9f28-bf003e096dc1","title":"Sean Carroll - Layers of Reality [5.28.15]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/442","content_text":"SEAN CARROLL is a research professor at Caltech and the author of The Particle at the End of the Universe, which won the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize, and_ From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time_. He has recently been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Gemant Award from the American Institute of Physics, and the Emperor Has No Clothes Award from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/sean_carroll-layers-of-reality","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/sean_carroll\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eSEAN CARROLL\u003c/a\u003e is a research professor at Caltech and the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Particle at the End of the Universe\u003c/em\u003e, which won the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize, and_ From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time_. He has recently been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Gemant Award from the American Institute of Physics, and the Emperor Has No Clothes Award from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/sean_carroll-layers-of-reality\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/sean_carroll-layers-of-reality\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"SEAN CARROLL is a research professor at Caltech and the author of The Particle at the End of the Universe, which won the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize, and From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time. He has recently been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Gemant Award from the American Institute of Physics, and the Emperor Has No Clothes Award from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/sean_carroll-layers-of-reality","date_published":"2015-05-28T13:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/da946c7e-f71c-49b8-9f28-bf003e096dc1.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":64043701,"duration_in_seconds":1977}]},{"id":"e46392f0-b15a-4976-82c7-11bd68a747f0","title":"David Christian - We Need a Modern Origin Story: A Big History [5.21.15]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/441","content_text":"DAVID CHRISTIAN is Professor of History, Macquarie University, Sydney; Author, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/david_christian-we-need-a-modern-origin-story-a-big-history","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eDAVID CHRISTIAN is Professor of History, Macquarie University, Sydney; Author, \u003cem\u003eMaps of Time: An Introduction to Big History\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/david_christian-we-need-a-modern-origin-story-a-big-history\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/david_christian-we-need-a-modern-origin-story-a-big-history\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"DAVID CHRISTIAN is Professor of History, Macquarie University, Sydney; Author, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/david_christian-we-need-a-modern-origin-story-a-big-history","date_published":"2015-05-21T13:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/e46392f0-b15a-4976-82c7-11bd68a747f0.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":86823005,"duration_in_seconds":2687}]},{"id":"34a88ef3-4279-4f72-b90c-6e25410743ec","title":"Peter Coveney - Popper Versus Bacon [5.7.15]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/440","content_text":"PETER COVENEY holds a chair in Physical Chemistry, and is director of the Centre for Computational Science at University College London and co-author, with Roger Highfield, of The Arrow of Time _and _Frontiers of Complexity. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/peter_coveney-popper-versus-bacon","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/peter_coveney\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ePETER COVENEY\u003c/a\u003e holds a chair in Physical Chemistry, and is director of the Centre for Computational Science at University College London and co-author, with Roger Highfield, of \u003cem\u003eThe Arrow of Time _and _Frontiers of Complexity\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/peter_coveney-popper-versus-bacon\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/peter_coveney-popper-versus-bacon\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"PETER COVENEY holds a chair in Physical Chemistry, and is director of the Centre for Computational Science at University College London and co-author, with Roger Highfield, of The Arrow of Time and Frontiers of Complexity. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/peter_coveney-popper-versus-bacon","date_published":"2015-05-07T13:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/34a88ef3-4279-4f72-b90c-6e25410743ec.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":70556393,"duration_in_seconds":2158}]},{"id":"c38a23ba-f301-4d71-ac39-5cd4e63995b3","title":"Richard Dawkins - This Is My Vision of \"Life\" [4.30.15]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/439","content_text":"RICHARD DAWKINS is an evolutionary biologist; Emeritus Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, Oxford; Author, The Selfish Gene; The Extended Phenotype; Climbing Mount Improbable; The God Delusion; An Appetite For Wonder; and (forthcoming) A Brief Candle In The Dark. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/richard_dawkins-this-is-my-vision-of-life","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/richard_dawkins\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eRICHARD DAWKINS\u003c/a\u003e is an evolutionary biologist; Emeritus Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, Oxford; Author, \u003cem\u003eThe Selfish Gene\u003c/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Extended Phenotype\u003c/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eClimbing Mount Improbable\u003c/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe God Delusion\u003c/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eAn Appetite For Wonder\u003c/em\u003e; and (forthcoming) \u003cem\u003eA Brief Candle In The Dark\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/richard_dawkins-this-is-my-vision-of-life\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/richard_dawkins-this-is-my-vision-of-life\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"RICHARD DAWKINS is an evolutionary biologist; Emeritus Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, Oxford; Author, The Selfish Gene; The Extended Phenotype; Climbing Mount Improbable; The God Delusion; An Appetite For Wonder; and (forthcoming) A Brief Candle In The Dark. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/richard_dawkins-this-is-my-vision-of-life","date_published":"2015-04-30T13:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/c38a23ba-f301-4d71-ac39-5cd4e63995b3.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":70653540,"duration_in_seconds":2179}]},{"id":"243ed002-905f-4cb6-b48f-88c29a49d14b","title":"Jaan Tallinn - Existential Risk [4.16.15]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/438","content_text":"JAAN TALLINN is a co-founder of The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at University of Cambridge, UK as well as The Future of Life Institute in Cambridge, MA. He is also a founding engineer of Kazaa and Skype. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/jaan_tallinn-existential-risk","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/jaan_tallinn\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eJAAN TALLINN\u003c/a\u003e is a co-founder of The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at University of Cambridge, UK as well as The Future of Life Institute in Cambridge, MA. He is also a founding engineer of Kazaa and Skype. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/jaan_tallinn-existential-risk\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/jaan_tallinn-existential-risk\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"JAAN TALLINN is a co-founder of The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at University of Cambridge, UK as well as The Future of Life Institute in Cambridge, MA. He is also a founding engineer of Kazaa and Skype. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/jaan_tallinn-existential-risk","date_published":"2015-04-16T11:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/243ed002-905f-4cb6-b48f-88c29a49d14b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":28149092,"duration_in_seconds":2345}]},{"id":"e141d7a4-0b4c-464f-ae6d-460a36fbdd1f","title":"Yuval Noah Harari \u0026 Daniel Kahneman - Death Is Optional","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/437","content_text":"YUVAL NOAH HARARI, Lecturer, Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. \n\nDANIEL KAHNEMAN is the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 2002 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2013. He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton, and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow. \n\nThe Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/yuval_noah_harari-daniel_kahneman-death-is-optional","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/yuval_noah_harari\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eYUVAL NOAH HARARI\u003c/a\u003e, Lecturer, Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of \u003cem\u003eSapiens: A Brief History of Humankind\u003c/em\u003e. \u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/daniel_kahneman\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eDANIEL KAHNEMAN\u003c/a\u003e is the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 2002 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2013. He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton, and author of \u003cem\u003eThinking, Fast and Slow\u003c/em\u003e. \u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/yuval_noah_harari-daniel_kahneman-death-is-optional\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/yuval_noah_harari-daniel_kahneman-death-is-optional\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"YUVAL NOAH HARARI, Lecturer, Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. \r\n\r\nDANIEL KAHNEMAN is the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 2002 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2013. He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton, and author of Thinking Fast and Slow. \r\n\r\nThe Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/yuval_noah_harari-daniel_kahneman-death-is-optional","date_published":"2015-03-04T11:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/e141d7a4-0b4c-464f-ae6d-460a36fbdd1f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":30174417,"duration_in_seconds":2514}]},{"id":"08c6f2e8-7d85-4f28-9d69-f1cb0a039630","title":"Neil Gershenfeld - Digital Reality [1.23.15]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/435","content_text":"NEIL GERSHENFELD is a Physicist and the Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms. He is the author of FAB. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/neil_gershenfeld-digital-reality","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/neil_gershenfeld\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eNEIL GERSHENFELD\u003c/a\u003e is a Physicist and the Director of MIT\u0026#39;s Center for Bits and Atoms. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eFAB\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/neil_gershenfeld-digital-reality\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/neil_gershenfeld-digital-reality\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"NEIL GERSHENFELD is a Physicist and the Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms. He is the author of FAB. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/neil_gershenfeld-digital-reality","date_published":"2015-01-23T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/08c6f2e8-7d85-4f28-9d69-f1cb0a039630.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":96404336,"duration_in_seconds":3442}]},{"id":"53faf5c7-9b5a-46a6-9ed9-955e6d0a9f04","title":"Chiara Marletto - Formulating Science in Terms of Possible and Impossible Tasks [12.6.14]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/432","content_text":"CHIARA MARLETTO is a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College and Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Materials Department, University of Oxford; Currently working with David Deutsch. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/chiara_marletto-formulating-science-in-terms-of-possible-and-impossible-tasks","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/chiara_marletto\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eCHIARA MARLETTO\u003c/a\u003e is a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College and Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Materials Department, University of Oxford; Currently working with David Deutsch. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/chiara_marletto-formulating-science-in-terms-of-possible-and-impossible-tasks\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/chiara_marletto-formulating-science-in-terms-of-possible-and-impossible-tasks\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"CHIARA MARLETTO is a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College and Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Materials Department, University of Oxford; Currently working with David Deutsch. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/chiara_marletto-formulating-science-in-terms-of-possible-and-impossible-tasks","date_published":"2014-12-06T11:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/53faf5c7-9b5a-46a6-9ed9-955e6d0a9f04.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":23740771,"duration_in_seconds":1978}]},{"id":"85b1af50-f8c0-4bfb-81c7-81e3ae86abf5","title":"Margaret Levi - Entwined Fates [11.24.14]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/431","content_text":"MARGARET LEVI is the Director of the Center For Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is the Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies at the University of Washington. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/margaret_levi-entwined-fates","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/margaret_levi\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eMARGARET LEVI\u003c/a\u003e is the Director of the Center For Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is the Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies at the University of Washington. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/margaret_levi-entwined-fates\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/margaret_levi-entwined-fates\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"MARGARET LEVI is the Director of the Center For Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is the Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies at the University of Washington. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/margaret_levi-entwined-fates","date_published":"2014-11-24T11:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/85b1af50-f8c0-4bfb-81c7-81e3ae86abf5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":32173412,"duration_in_seconds":2680}]},{"id":"27f2431b-4a0e-48ca-ae3e-ec4d977d248b","title":"Naomi Eisenberger - Social Pain [9.10.14]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/425","content_text":"NAOMI EISENBERGER is a professor in the Social Psychology Program at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is director of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory as well as co-director of the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/naomi_eisenberger-social-pain","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/naomi_eisenberger\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eNAOMI EISENBERGER\u003c/a\u003e is a professor in the Social Psychology Program at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is director of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory as well as co-director of the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/naomi_eisenberger-social-pain\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/naomi_eisenberger-social-pain\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"NAOMI EISENBERGER is a professor in the Social Psychology Program at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is director of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory as well as co-director of the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/naomi_eisenberger-social-pain","date_published":"2014-09-10T11:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/27f2431b-4a0e-48ca-ae3e-ec4d977d248b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":21154962,"duration_in_seconds":1762}]},{"id":"d2c6a989-7b4c-40ac-8886-9adc26b7450e","title":"Richard Prum - Duck Sex, Aesthetic Evolution, and the Origin of Beauty [9.3.14]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/424","content_text":"RICHARD PRUM is an evolutionary ornithologist at Yale University, where he is the Curator of Ornithology and Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/richard_prum-duck-sex-aesthetic-evolution-and-the-origin-of-beauty","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/richard_prum\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eRICHARD PRUM\u003c/a\u003e is an evolutionary ornithologist at Yale University, where he is the Curator of Ornithology and Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/richard_prum-duck-sex-aesthetic-evolution-and-the-origin-of-beauty\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/richard_prum-duck-sex-aesthetic-evolution-and-the-origin-of-beauty\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"RICHARD PRUM is an evolutionary ornithologist at Yale University, where he is the Curator of Ornithology and Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/richard_prum-duck-sex-aesthetic-evolution-and-the-origin-of-beauty","date_published":"2014-09-03T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/d2c6a989-7b4c-40ac-8886-9adc26b7450e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":41465898,"duration_in_seconds":3455}]},{"id":"9fd0ca59-ccc7-4350-9fac-e5fda6df40b5","title":"Matthew Lieberman - Latitudes of Acceptance [8.22.14]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/423","content_text":"MATTHEW D. LIEBERMAN is a professor of psychology at UCLA. He is the author of Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/matthew_d_lieberman-latitudes-of-acceptance","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/matthew_d_lieberman\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eMATTHEW D. LIEBERMAN\u003c/a\u003e is a professor of psychology at UCLA. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eSocial: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/matthew_d_lieberman-latitudes-of-acceptance\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/matthew_d_lieberman-latitudes-of-acceptance\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"MATTHEW D. LIEBERMAN is a professor of psychology at UCLA. He is the author of Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/matthew_d_lieberman-latitudes-of-acceptance","date_published":"2014-08-22T12:15:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/9fd0ca59-ccc7-4350-9fac-e5fda6df40b5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":22735162,"duration_in_seconds":1894}]},{"id":"7381b72b-cea1-49f6-810d-d5c9041b6ddd","title":"Jonathan Gottschall - The Way We Live Our Lives in Stories [7.28.14]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/422","content_text":"JONATHAN GOTTSCHALL is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the English Department at Washington \u0026amp; Jefferson College. He is the author or editor of six books, including The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (a _New York Times _Editor’s Choice Selection and a finalist for the _LA Times _Book Prize). The Conversation:  https://www.edge.org/conversation/jonathan_gottschall-the-way-we-live-our-lives-in-stories","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/jonathan_gottschall\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eJONATHAN GOTTSCHALL\u003c/a\u003e is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the English Department at Washington \u0026amp; Jefferson College. He is the author or editor of six books, including \u003cem\u003eThe Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human\u003c/em\u003e (a _New York Times _Editor’s Choice Selection and a finalist for the _LA Times _Book Prize). The Conversation:  \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/jonathan_gottschall-the-way-we-live-our-lives-in-stories\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/jonathan_gottschall-the-way-we-live-our-lives-in-stories\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"JONATHAN GOTTSCHALL is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the English Department at Washington \u0026 Jefferson College. He is the author or editor of six books, including The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (a New York Times Editor’s Choice Selection and a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize). The Conversation:  https://www.edge.org/conversation/jonathan_gottschall-the-way-we-live-our-lives-in-stories","date_published":"2014-07-28T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/7381b72b-cea1-49f6-810d-d5c9041b6ddd.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":22785630,"duration_in_seconds":1898}]},{"id":"d5e64648-9dfe-45c4-88de-c5aa053acfe1","title":"Steven Pinker - Writing in the 21st Century [6.9.14]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/418","content_text":"STEVEN PINKER is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He is the author of ten books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and_ The Sense of Style_ (September). The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/steven_pinker-writing-in-the-21st-century","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/steven_pinker\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eSTEVEN PINKER\u003c/a\u003e is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He is the author of ten books, including \u003cem\u003eThe Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Better Angels of Our Nature\u003c/em\u003e, and_ The Sense of Style_ (September). The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/steven_pinker-writing-in-the-21st-century\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/steven_pinker-writing-in-the-21st-century\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"STEVEN PINKER is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He is the author of ten books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and The Sense of Style (September). The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/steven_pinker-writing-in-the-21st-century","date_published":"2014-06-09T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/d5e64648-9dfe-45c4-88de-c5aa053acfe1.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":26672964,"duration_in_seconds":2222}]},{"id":"319fd4b3-04de-412b-98e2-881a7500ae6c","title":"HeadCon '13 - Daniel Dennett - The De-Darwinizing of Cultural Change [3.4.14]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/413","content_text":"DANIEL C. DENNETT is a Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University; Author, Intuition Pumps. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/daniel-c-dennett-the-de-darwinizing-of-cultural-change-headcon-13-part-x","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/daniel_c_dennett\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eDANIEL C. DENNETT\u003c/a\u003e is a Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University; Author, \u003cem\u003eIntuition Pumps\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/panel/daniel-c-dennett-the-de-darwinizing-of-cultural-change-headcon-13-part-x\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/panel/daniel-c-dennett-the-de-darwinizing-of-cultural-change-headcon-13-part-x\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"Daniel C. Dennett is a Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University; Author, Intuition Pumps. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/daniel-c-dennett-the-de-darwinizing-of-cultural-change-headcon-13-part-x","date_published":"2014-03-04T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/319fd4b3-04de-412b-98e2-881a7500ae6c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":15375841,"duration_in_seconds":656}]},{"id":"ef4acb83-9b4d-474a-9429-72ccaaa7b8f6","title":"HeadCon '13 - Joshua Knobe - Experimental Philosophy \u0026 the Notion of the Self","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/411","content_text":"JOSHUA KNOBE is an Experimental Philosopher; Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Yale University. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/josh-knobe-experimental-philosophy-and-the-notion-of-the-self-headcon-13-part-viii","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/joshua_knobe\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eJOSHUA KNOBE\u003c/a\u003e is an Experimental Philosopher; Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Yale University. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/panel/josh-knobe-experimental-philosophy-and-the-notion-of-the-self-headcon-13-part-viii\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/panel/josh-knobe-experimental-philosophy-and-the-notion-of-the-self-headcon-13-part-viii\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"Joshua Knobe is an Experimental Philosopher; Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Yale University. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/josh-knobe-experimental-philosophy-and-the-notion-of-the-self-headcon-13-part-viii","date_published":"2014-02-18T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/ef4acb83-9b4d-474a-9429-72ccaaa7b8f6.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":24716602,"duration_in_seconds":1434}]},{"id":"562d7f90-20ac-409c-a2d6-eec9bc87318b","title":"HeadCon '13 - David Pizarro - The Failure of Social and Moral Intuitions [2.25.14] ","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/412","content_text":"DAVID PIZARRO is Associate Professor of Psychology, Cornell University, specializing in moral judgement. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/david-pizarro-the-failure-of-social-and-moral-intuitions-headcon-13-part-ix","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/david_pizarro\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eDAVID PIZARRO\u003c/a\u003e is Associate Professor of Psychology, Cornell University, specializing in moral judgement. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/panel/david-pizarro-the-failure-of-social-and-moral-intuitions-headcon-13-part-ix\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/panel/david-pizarro-the-failure-of-social-and-moral-intuitions-headcon-13-part-ix\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"DAVID PIZARRO is Associate Professor of Psychology, Cornell University, specializing in moral judgement. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/david-pizarro-the-failure-of-social-and-moral-intuitions-headcon-13-part-ix","date_published":"2014-02-15T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/562d7f90-20ac-409c-a2d6-eec9bc87318b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":17599279,"duration_in_seconds":841}]},{"id":"85fcf0a8-0366-4ded-bb5a-eb88734f6c8d","title":"Kevin Kelly - The Technium [2.3.14]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/410","content_text":"KEVIN KELLY is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He helped launch Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor until January 1999. He is currently editor and publisher of the popular Cool Tools, True Film, and Street Use websites. His most recent books are Cool Tools, and What Technology Wants. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/kevin_kelly-the-technium","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/kevin_kelly\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eKEVIN KELLY\u003c/a\u003e is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He helped launch Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor until January 1999. He is currently editor and publisher of the popular Cool Tools, True Film, and Street Use websites. His most recent books are \u003cem\u003eCool Tools\u003c/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eWhat Technology Wants\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/kevin_kelly-the-technium\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/kevin_kelly-the-technium\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"KEVIN KELLY is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He helped launch Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor until January 1999. He is currently editor and publisher of the popular Cool Tools, True Film, and Street Use websites. His most recent books are Cool Tools, and What Technology Wants. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/kevin_kelly-the-technium","date_published":"2014-02-03T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/85fcf0a8-0366-4ded-bb5a-eb88734f6c8d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":51465258,"duration_in_seconds":4288}]},{"id":"8f09f386-5067-41b9-a077-8c64837160dc","title":"HeadCon '13 - Laurie Santos - What Makes Humans Unique?","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/409","content_text":"LAURIE SANTOS is Associate Professor, Department of Psychology; Director, Comparative Cognition Laboratory, Yale University. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/laurie-santos-what-makes-humans-unique-headcon-13-part-vii","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/laurie_r_santos\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eLAURIE SANTOS\u003c/a\u003e is Associate Professor, Department of Psychology; Director, Comparative Cognition Laboratory, Yale University. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/panel/laurie-santos-what-makes-humans-unique-headcon-13-part-vii\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/panel/laurie-santos-what-makes-humans-unique-headcon-13-part-vii\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"Laurie Santos is Associate Professor, Department of Psychology; Director, Comparative Cognition Laboratory, Yale University. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/laurie-santos-what-makes-humans-unique-headcon-13-part-vii","date_published":"2014-01-23T13:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/8f09f386-5067-41b9-a077-8c64837160dc.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":22044902,"duration_in_seconds":1212}]},{"id":"2904a1b6-09cb-4c35-ace7-620e8801e124","title":"HeadCon '13 - Joshua Greene - The Role of Brain Imaging in Social Science","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/407","content_text":"JOSHUA GREENE is John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and the director of the Moral Cognition Laboratory in the Department of Psychology, Harvard University. Author, Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, And The Gap Between Us And Them. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/joshua-greene-the-role-of-brain-imaging-in-social-science-headcon-13-part-vi","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/joshua_d_greene\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eJOSHUA GREENE\u003c/a\u003e is John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and the director of the Moral Cognition Laboratory in the Department of Psychology, Harvard University. Author, \u003cem\u003eMoral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, And The Gap Between Us And Them\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/panel/joshua-greene-the-role-of-brain-imaging-in-social-science-headcon-13-part-vi\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/panel/joshua-greene-the-role-of-brain-imaging-in-social-science-headcon-13-part-vi\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"JOSHUA GREENE is John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and the director of the Moral Cognition Laboratory in the Department of Psychology, Harvard University. Author, Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, And The Gap Between Us And Them. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/joshua-greene-the-role-of-brain-imaging-in-social-science-headcon-13-part-vi","date_published":"2013-12-16T13:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/2904a1b6-09cb-4c35-ace7-620e8801e124.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":19850303,"duration_in_seconds":1029}]},{"id":"106dabe6-49c7-4491-a89d-1c283ba1199a","title":"HeadCon '13 - Nicholas Christakis - The Science of Social Connections [12.9.13]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/406","content_text":"NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS is a Physician and Social Scientist; Director, The Human Nature Lab, Yale University; Coauthor, Connected: The Surprising Power Of Our Social Networks And How They Shape Our Lives. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/nicholas-christakis-the-science-of-social-connections-headcon-13-part-v ","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/nicholas_a_christakis\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eNICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS\u003c/a\u003e is a Physician and Social Scientist; Director, The Human Nature Lab, Yale University; Coauthor, \u003cem\u003eConnected: The Surprising Power Of Our Social Networks And How They Shape Our Lives\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/panel/nicholas-christakis-the-science-of-social-connections-headcon-13-part-v\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/panel/nicholas-christakis-the-science-of-social-connections-headcon-13-part-v\u003c/a\u003e \u003c/p\u003e","summary":"NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS is a Physician and Social Scientist; Director, The Human Nature Lab, Yale University; Coauthor, Connected: The Surprising Power Of Our Social Networks And How They Shape Our Lives. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/nicholas-christakis-the-science-of-social-connections-headcon-13-part-v","date_published":"2013-12-09T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/106dabe6-49c7-4491-a89d-1c283ba1199a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":23416644,"duration_in_seconds":1326}]},{"id":"6a51cf99-ca1f-45ce-8931-fe8ad0d949f2","title":"HeadCon '13 - Fiery Cushman - The Paradox of Automatic Planning [11.25.13]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/404","content_text":"FIERY CUSHMAN is Assistant Professor, Cognitive, Linguistic, Social Science, Brown University. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/fiery-cushman-the-paradox-of-automatic-planning-headcon-13-part-iii","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/fiery_cushman\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eFIERY CUSHMAN\u003c/a\u003e is Assistant Professor, Cognitive, Linguistic, Social Science, Brown University. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/panel/fiery-cushman-the-paradox-of-automatic-planning-headcon-13-part-iii\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/panel/fiery-cushman-the-paradox-of-automatic-planning-headcon-13-part-iii\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"FIERY CUSHMAN is Assistant Professor, Cognitive, Linguistic, Social Science, Brown University. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/fiery-cushman-the-paradox-of-automatic-planning-headcon-13-part-iii","date_published":"2013-11-25T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/6a51cf99-ca1f-45ce-8931-fe8ad0d949f2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":25551998,"duration_in_seconds":1504}]},{"id":"64a48993-751d-4f89-9ccf-85ece4a2d909","title":"HeadCon '13 - June Gruber - The Scientific Study of Positive Emotion [11.18.13]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/403","content_text":"JUNE GRUBER is Assistant Professor of Psychology, Director, Positive Emotion \u0026amp; Psychopathology Lab, Yale University. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/june-gruber-the-scientific-study-of-positive-emotion-headcon-13-part-ii","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/june_gruber\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eJUNE GRUBER\u003c/a\u003e is Assistant Professor of Psychology, Director, Positive Emotion \u0026amp; Psychopathology Lab, Yale University. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/panel/june-gruber-the-scientific-study-of-positive-emotion-headcon-13-part-ii\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/panel/june-gruber-the-scientific-study-of-positive-emotion-headcon-13-part-ii\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"June Gruber is Assistant Professor of Psychology, Director, Positive Emotion \u0026 Psychopathology Lab, Yale University. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/june-gruber-the-scientific-study-of-positive-emotion-headcon-13-part-ii","date_published":"2013-11-18T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/64a48993-751d-4f89-9ccf-85ece4a2d909.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":34133849,"duration_in_seconds":3058}]},{"id":"c0b74da5-f7d3-4623-8373-2750a5d67f4a","title":"HeadCon '13 - Sendhil Mullainathan - What Big Data Means For Social Science [11.11.13]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/402","content_text":"SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN is Professor of Economics, Harvard; Assistant Director for Research, The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), U.S. Treasury Department (2011-2013); Coauthor, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/sendhil-mullainathan-what-big-data-means-for-social-science-headcon-13-part-i","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/sendhil_mullainathan\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eSENDHIL MULLAINATHAN\u003c/a\u003e is Professor of Economics, Harvard; Assistant Director for Research, The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), U.S. Treasury Department (2011-2013); Coauthor, \u003cem\u003eScarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/panel/sendhil-mullainathan-what-big-data-means-for-social-science-headcon-13-part-i\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/panel/sendhil-mullainathan-what-big-data-means-for-social-science-headcon-13-part-i\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN is Professor of Economics, Harvard; Assistant Director for Research, The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), U.S. Treasury Department (2011-2013); Coauthor, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/sendhil-mullainathan-what-big-data-means-for-social-science-headcon-13-part-i","date_published":"2013-11-11T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/c0b74da5-f7d3-4623-8373-2750a5d67f4a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":28839665,"duration_in_seconds":1778}]},{"id":"cef22d47-a5a5-4245-b04b-562c667ecee0","title":"Joshua Greene - Deep Pragmatism [8.30.13]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/399","content_text":"JOSHUA D. GREENE is the John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and the director of the Moral Cognition Laboratory in the Department of Psychology, Harvard University. He studies the psychology and neuroscience of morality, focusing on the interplay between emotion and reasoning in moral decision-making. His broader interests cluster around the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. He is the author of Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/joshua_d_greene-deep-pragmatism","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/joshua_d_greene\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eJOSHUA D. GREENE\u003c/a\u003e is the John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and the director of the Moral Cognition Laboratory in the Department of Psychology, Harvard University. He studies the psychology and neuroscience of morality, focusing on the interplay between emotion and reasoning in moral decision-making. His broader interests cluster around the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eMoral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/joshua_d_greene-deep-pragmatism\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/joshua_d_greene-deep-pragmatism\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"JOSHUA D. GREENE is the John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and the director of the Moral Cognition Laboratory in the Department of Psychology, Harvard University. He studies the psychology and neuroscience of morality, focusing on the interplay between emotion and reasoning in moral decision-making. His broader interests cluster around the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. He is the author of Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/joshua_d_greene-deep-pragmatism","date_published":"2013-08-30T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/cef22d47-a5a5-4245-b04b-562c667ecee0.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":53987023,"duration_in_seconds":1687}]},{"id":"576df1ed-45be-4714-a370-c2fa3e933ea3","title":"David Moinina Sengeh - Technology \u0026 Innovation as a National Development Strategy","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/398","content_text":"DAVID MOININA SENGEH is a doctoral student at the MIT Media Lab, and a researcher in the Lab’s Biomechatronics group. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/david_moinina_sengeh-technology-and-innovation-as-a-national-development-strategy","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/david_moinina_sengeh\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eDAVID MOININA SENGEH\u003c/a\u003e is a doctoral student at the MIT Media Lab, and a researcher in the Lab’s Biomechatronics group. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/david_moinina_sengeh-technology-and-innovation-as-a-national-development-strategy\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/david_moinina_sengeh-technology-and-innovation-as-a-national-development-strategy\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"DAVID MOININA SENGEH is a doctoral student at the MIT Media Lab, and a researcher in the Lab’s Biomechatronics group. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/david_moinina_sengeh-technology-and-innovation-as-a-national-development-strategy","date_published":"2013-07-12T11:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/576df1ed-45be-4714-a370-c2fa3e933ea3.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":81437747,"duration_in_seconds":2544}]},{"id":"d5e03686-e0f9-47eb-b9c6-096b4caf3237","title":"Napoleon Chagnon - Blood Is Their Argument Part II [6.6.13]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/3952","content_text":"NAPOLEON CHAGNON is a renowned anthropologist who is most widely recognized for his study of the Yanomamö tribes in the Amazon. He is a professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri; Author, Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/napoleon-chagnon-blood-is-their-argument","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/napoleon_chagnon\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eNAPOLEON CHAGNON\u003c/a\u003e is a renowned anthropologist who is most widely recognized for his study of the Yanomamö tribes in the Amazon. He is a professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri; \u003cem\u003eAuthor, Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/napoleon-chagnon-blood-is-their-argument\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/napoleon-chagnon-blood-is-their-argument\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"NAPOLEON CHAGNON is a renowned anthropologist who is most widely recognized for his study of the Yanomamö tribes in the Amazon. He is a professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri; Author, Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/napoleon-chagnon-blood-is-their-argument","date_published":"2013-06-06T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/d5e03686-e0f9-47eb-b9c6-096b4caf3237.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":65272115,"duration_in_seconds":2031}]},{"id":"95b7ebcd-84b0-45a7-9454-a4630d7e9eac","title":"Napoleon Chagnon - Blood Is Their Argument Part II Discussion [6.6.13]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/3953","content_text":"NAPOLEON CHAGNON is a renowned anthropologist who is most widely recognized for his study of the Yanomamö tribes in the Amazon. He is a professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri; Author, Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/napoleon-chagnon-blood-is-their-argument","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/napoleon_chagnon\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eNAPOLEON CHAGNON\u003c/a\u003e is a renowned anthropologist who is most widely recognized for his study of the Yanomamö tribes in the Amazon. He is a professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri; \u003cem\u003eAuthor, Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/napoleon-chagnon-blood-is-their-argument\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/napoleon-chagnon-blood-is-their-argument\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"NAPOLEON CHAGNON is a renowned anthropologist who is most widely recognized for his study of the Yanomamö tribes in the Amazon. He is a professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri; Author, Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/napoleon-chagnon-blood-is-their-argument","date_published":"2013-06-06T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/95b7ebcd-84b0-45a7-9454-a4630d7e9eac.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":39865816,"duration_in_seconds":1240}]},{"id":"a9641a09-eb3b-4a44-b2cb-d9a01fa04c07","title":"Napoleon Chagnon - Blood Is Their Argument Part I Discussion [6.6.13]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/3951","content_text":"NAPOLEON CHAGNON is a renowned anthropologist who is most widely recognized for his study of the Yanomamö tribes in the Amazon. He is a professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri; Author, Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/napoleon-chagnon-blood-is-their-argument","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/napoleon_chagnon\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eNAPOLEON CHAGNON\u003c/a\u003e is a renowned anthropologist who is most widely recognized for his study of the Yanomamö tribes in the Amazon. He is a professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri; \u003cem\u003eAuthor, Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/napoleon-chagnon-blood-is-their-argument\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/napoleon-chagnon-blood-is-their-argument\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"NAPOLEON CHAGNON is a renowned anthropologist who is most widely recognized for his study of the Yanomamö tribes in the Amazon. He is a professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri; Author, Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/napoleon-chagnon-blood-is-their-argument","date_published":"2013-06-06T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/a9641a09-eb3b-4a44-b2cb-d9a01fa04c07.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":57005665,"duration_in_seconds":1782}]},{"id":"ca023926-8195-4292-b9f9-f8f78b7bbb36","title":"Napoleon Chagnon - Blood Is Their Argument Part I [6.6.13]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/395","content_text":"NAPOLEON CHAGNON is a renowned anthropologist who is most widely recognized for his study of the Yanomamö tribes in the Amazon. He is a professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri; Author, Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/napoleon-chagnon-blood-is-their-argument","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/napoleon_chagnon\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eNAPOLEON CHAGNON\u003c/a\u003e is a renowned anthropologist who is most widely recognized for his study of the Yanomamö tribes in the Amazon. He is a professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri; \u003cem\u003eAuthor, Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/napoleon-chagnon-blood-is-their-argument\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/napoleon-chagnon-blood-is-their-argument\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"NAPOLEON CHAGNON is a renowned anthropologist who is most widely recognized for his study of the Yanomamö tribes in the Amazon. He is a professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri; Author, Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/napoleon-chagnon-blood-is-their-argument","date_published":"2013-06-06T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/ca023926-8195-4292-b9f9-f8f78b7bbb36.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":71994876,"duration_in_seconds":3519}]},{"id":"b5a3689a-ef86-471a-9fc1-bcdaaf8cd7d0","title":"Lee Smolin - Think About Nature","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/394","content_text":"LEE SMOLIN is a founding and senior faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. He is also Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Waterloo and is a member of the graduate faculty of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Toronto. He is the author of Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/lee_smolin-think-about-nature","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/lee_smolin\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eLEE SMOLIN\u003c/a\u003e is a founding and senior faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. He is also Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Waterloo and is a member of the graduate faculty of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Toronto. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eTime Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/lee_smolin-think-about-nature\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/lee_smolin-think-about-nature\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"LEE SMOLIN is a founding and senior faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. He is also Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Waterloo and is a member of the graduate faculty of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Toronto. He is the author of Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/lee_smolin-think-about-nature","date_published":"2013-05-14T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/b5a3689a-ef86-471a-9fc1-bcdaaf8cd7d0.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":41945820,"duration_in_seconds":3495}]},{"id":"20d26695-12c0-4cd2-be80-285474565ded","title":"Adam Alter - Disfluency [2.25.13]","url":"https://edgecast.fireside.fm/393","content_text":"ADAM ALTER is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Stern School of Business, NYU. He is the author of Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/adam_alter-disfluency","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/memberbio/adam_alter\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eADAM ALTER\u003c/a\u003e is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Stern School of Business, NYU. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eDrunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave\u003c/em\u003e. The Conversation: \u003ca href=\"https://www.edge.org/conversation/adam_alter-disfluency\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.edge.org/conversation/adam_alter-disfluency\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"ADAM ALTER is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Stern School of Business, NYU. He is the author of Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/adam_alter-disfluency","date_published":"2013-02-25T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/221ffae3-93ce-44ce-a187-913e060be626/20d26695-12c0-4cd2-be80-285474565ded.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":24337617,"duration_in_seconds":2027}]}]}