About the show
"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."
Episodes
-
Peter Coveney - Popper Versus Bacon [5.7.15]
May 7th, 2015 | 35 mins 58 secs
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
-
Richard Dawkins - This Is My Vision of "Life" [4.30.15]
April 30th, 2015 | 36 mins 19 secs
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
-
Jaan Tallinn - Existential Risk [4.16.15]
April 16th, 2015 | 39 mins 5 secs
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
-
Yuval Noah Harari & Daniel Kahneman - Death Is Optional
March 4th, 2015 | 41 mins 54 secs
YUVAL NOAH HARARI, Lecturer, Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.
DANIEL 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.
The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/yuval_noah_harari-daniel_kahneman-death-is-optional
-
Neil Gershenfeld - Digital Reality [1.23.15]
January 23rd, 2015 | 57 mins 22 secs
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
-
Chiara Marletto - Formulating Science in Terms of Possible and Impossible Tasks [12.6.14]
December 6th, 2014 | 32 mins 58 secs
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
-
Margaret Levi - Entwined Fates [11.24.14]
November 24th, 2014 | 44 mins 40 secs
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
-
Naomi Eisenberger - Social Pain [9.10.14]
September 10th, 2014 | 29 mins 22 secs
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
-
Richard Prum - Duck Sex, Aesthetic Evolution, and the Origin of Beauty [9.3.14]
September 3rd, 2014 | 57 mins 35 secs
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
-
Matthew Lieberman - Latitudes of Acceptance [8.22.14]
August 22nd, 2014 | 31 mins 34 secs
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
-
Jonathan Gottschall - The Way We Live Our Lives in Stories [7.28.14]
July 28th, 2014 | 31 mins 38 secs
JONATHAN GOTTSCHALL is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the English Department at Washington & 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
-
Steven Pinker - Writing in the 21st Century [6.9.14]
June 9th, 2014 | 37 mins 2 secs
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