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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Brian Christian: How Should a Society Be? [12.1.16]
December 1st, 2016 | 40 mins 1 sec
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Laurie R. Santos: Glitches [11.21.16]
November 21st, 2016 | 35 mins 56 secs
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David Rand: The Cost of Cooperationg [11.9.16]
November 9th, 2016 | 44 mins 7 secs
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Judea Pearl: Engines of Evidence [10.24.16]
October 24th, 2016 | 28 mins 3 secs
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Monica L. Smith: Infrastructure As Dialogue [9.20.16]
September 20th, 2016 | 43 mins 3 secs
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Seth Lloyd - Quantum Hanky-Panky
August 22nd, 2016 | 48 mins 12 secs
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
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Robert Plomin - Why We're Different [6.29.16]
June 29th, 2016 | 45 mins 10 secs
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
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Molly Crockett & Daniel Kahneman - Deontology Or Trustworthiness? [6.16.16]
June 16th, 2016 | 42 mins 59 secs
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.
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/molly_crockett-daniel_kahneman-deontology-or-trustworthiness
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June Gruber - Misunderstanding Positive Emotion [5.25.16]
May 25th, 2016 | 35 mins 9 secs
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
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Paul Dolan - The Social Construction of Stories
May 13th, 2016 | 37 mins 21 secs
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
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Gary Marcus - Is Big Data Taking Us Closer to the Deeper Questions in Artificial Intelligence? [5.4.16]
May 4th, 2016 | 39 mins
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
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Frank Wilczek - Power Over Nature [4.20.16]
April 20th, 2016 | 49 mins 31 secs
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