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
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Martie Haselton - Sexual Double Standards [5.24.18]
May 24th, 2018 | 34 mins 46 secs
MARTIE HASELTON is a professor of psychology and…
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Murray Shanahan - The Space of Possible Minds [5.18.18]
May 18th, 2018 | 28 mins 46 secs
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Sabine Hossenfelder - Looking in the Wrong Places [4.30.18]
April 30th, 2018 | 24 mins 16 secs
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. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/sabine_hossenfelder-looking-in-the-wrong-places
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Mary Catherine Bateson - How To Be a Systems Thinker [4.17.18]
April 15th, 2018 | 42 mins 16 secs
MARY CATHERINE BATESON is a writer and cultural a…
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Kai-Fu Lee - We Are Here To Create [3.26.18]
March 19th, 2018 | 40 mins 36 secs
KAI-FU LEE, the founder of the Beijing-based Sino…
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Caroline A. Jones - A Common Sense [3.15.18]
March 15th, 2018 | 38 mins 1 sec
CAROLINE A. JONES is professor of art history in …
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George Church - Church Speaks [2.14.18]
February 14th, 2018 | 52 mins 17 secs
GEORGE CHURCH is professor of genetics at Harvard…
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John Naughton - The State of Informed Bewilderment [1.3.18]
January 3rd, 2018 | 23 mins 5 secs
JOHN NAUGHTON is a senior research fellow at Camb…
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Daniel C. Dennett - "A Difference That Makes a Difference" [11.22.17]
November 17th, 2017 | 25 mins 33 secs
DANIEL C. DENNETT is the Austin B. Fletcher Profe…
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Sandy Pentland - The Human Strategy [10.30.17]
October 30th, 2017 | 28 mins 50 secs
ALEX "SANDY" PENTLAND is a professor at MIT, and …
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Rory Sutherland - Things to Hang on Your Mental Mug Tree [7.10.17]
October 17th, 2017 | 42 mins 39 secs
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Tim O'Reilly - Reality is an Activity of the Most August Imagination [10.2.17]
October 2nd, 2017 | 33 mins 4 secs
TIM O'REILLY is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly M…