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Ed Regis Science writer; Author, What Is Life? Predicting the Future	Freeman Dyson Professor of Physics, Institute for Advanced Study;... Physicist, Institute of.
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Marc D. Hauser Psychologist and Biologist, Harvard University: Author,... The Limits Of Darwinian.	Thomas Metzinger Philosophisches Seminar, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität... There are No Moral Facts
Dan Sperber Social and Cognitive Scientist; Directeur, de Recherche... How I Became An Evolutionary.	Leon M. Lederman Director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory The Obligations and.
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Paul Steinhardt Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Departments of... What created the structure of.	Steve Nadis Contributing Editor to Astronomy Magazine and a freelance... The Myth Of The
Helen Fisher Biological Anthropologist, Rutgers University; Author,... Planned Obsolescence? The.	Tor Nørretranders Science Writer; Consultant; Lecturer, Copenhagen; Author,... Permanent Reincarnation
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Robert Trivers Evolutionary Biologist; Professor of Anthropology and... The Science of Self-deception.	Rodney A. Brooks Roboticist; Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus) ,... Computation as the Ultimate.
Kevin Kelly Editor at Large, Wired, Author-What Technology Wants Editor-At-Large, Wired;.	Marcel Kinsbourne Neurologist & Cognitive Neuroscientist, The New School;... The Impressionable Brain
Peter Schwartz Futurist, Business Strategist; Cofounder. Global Business... Futurist, Business.	Scott Sampson Dinosaur paleontologist and science communicator; Author,... The Death of the Dinosaurs
Ernst Pöppel Neuroscientist; Chairman, Board of Directors Human... Being Caught In The Language.	John Mccarthy Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University Attitudes Trump Facts
Seth Lloyd Professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Author,... Quantum Mechanical Engineer,.	Gary Klein Cognitive Psychologist; Author, Sources of Power;... Exchanging Your Mind
Stephen M. Kosslyn Psychologist; Director, Center for Advanced Study in the... The World in the Brain	Lawrence M. Krauss Physicist/Cosmologist, ASU; Author, A Universe from Nothing What is the Universe Made of.
Daniel Gilbert Professor of Psychology at Harvard University The Benefit of Being Able to.	Sherry Turkle Psychologist, MIT; Internet Culture Researcher; Author,... What I've Changed My Mind.
John Horgan Science writings program at the Stevens Institute of... Changing My Mind About the.	Roger Schank Psychologist & Computer Scientist; Engines for Education... AI?
Carlo Rovelli Theoretical Physicist; University of the Mediterraneum,... There is nothing to add to.	Xeni Jardin Tech Culture Journalist; Partner, Contributor, Co-editor,... Online Communities Rot.
Stephen Schneider Climatologist, is a professor in the Department of... Climate Change: Warming Up To.	Diane F. Halpern Professor, Claremont McKenna College; Past-president,... From A Simple Truth To
Alan Kay Founding member of Xerox PARC; President of Viewpoints... A Big Mind Change At Age 10:.	Marti Hearst Computer Scientist, UC Berkeley, School of Information;... Computational Analysis of.
Paul Davies Theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astro-biologist, and... I used to be a committed.	Steven Pinker Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology;... Have Humans Stopped Evolving?
Alan Alda Actor, Writer, Director; Host of PBS program The Human... So far, I've changed my mind.	Patrick Bateson Professor of Ethology, Cambridge University; Co-author,... Changing my Mind
Jonathan Haidt Professor of Social Psychology, University of Virginia;... Sports and fraternities are.	Terrence J. Sejnowski Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Professor,... I have changed my mind about.
George Church Professor, Harvard University, Director, Personal Genome... Evolution of Faith In.	Judith Rich Harris Independent Investigator and Theoretician; Author, The... Generalization
Oliver Morton Chief News and Features Editor Human Spaceflight	Stewart Brand Founder, The Whole Earth Catalog; Co-founder, The Well;... Good Old Stuff Sucks
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Marco Iacoboni Neuroscientist; Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral... The eradication of irrational.	Scott Atran Anthropologist, National Center for Scientific Research,... The Religious Politics of.
Leo M. Chalupa Ophthalmologist and Neurobiologist, George Washington... Brain Plasticity	John Allen Paulos Professor of mathematics at Temple University The Convergence of Belief.
Eduardo Punset Scientist; Spanish Television Presenter; Author, The... The soul is in the brain	Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Philosopher, Novelist; Author, Betraying Spinoza; 36... Falsifiability
Juan Enriquez Managing Director Excel Venture Management; Co-author,... The source of long term power	George Dyson Science Historian; Author, Turing's Cathedral: The... Russian America
Helena Cronin Co-Director of LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural and... More dumbbells but more.	Aubrey De Grey Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer. SENS Foundation;... Curiosity is addictive, and.
Nicholas G. Carr Author, The Shallows and The Big Switch The Radiant and Infectious Web	Lisa Randall Physicist, Harvard University; Author, Warped Passages;... Physicist, Harvard.
Brian Goodwin Professor of biology at the Schumacher College The Mechanical Worldview	Carolyn Porco Planetary Scientist; Cassini Imaging Team Leader;... Planetary Scientist; Cassini.
William H. Calvin Neuroscientist; Professor, University of Washington;... Greenland changed my mind	Mary Catherine Bateson Etired as Clarence Robinson Professor of Anthropology and... Making and Changing Minds
Stanislas Dehaene Neuroscientist; Collège de France, Paris; Author, The... The Brain's SchrÃ¶dinger.	Linda Stone Hi-Tech Industry Consultant; Former Executive at Apple... Breathtaking New Technologies
Andrian Kreye Editor, The Feuilleton (Arts and Essays), of the German... That empirical data of.	Daniel Goleman Working with Emotional Intelligence The Inexplicable Monks
James Geary London-based writer and the former Europe editor of Time Neuroeconomics really.	Tim O Reilly Founder and CEO of O Reilly Media, Inc. I was skeptical of the term
Philip Campbell Editor-in Chief, Nature Editor-in Chief, Nature	Frank Wilczek Physicist, MIT; Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics;... The Science Formerly Known as.
Chris Anderson Curator, TED conferences, TED Talks Seeing Through a Carbon Lens	Rupert Sheldrake Biologist and author The skepticism of believers
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Adam Bly Founder, Seed Media Group Technology is Not So Bad	Nicholas Humphrey Emeritus School Professor, The London School of... The hardness of the problem.
Paul W. Ewald Professor of Biology, Amherst College; Author, Plague Time Trusting Experts	Seirian Sumner Research Fellow in Evolutionary Biology, Institute of... Reassessing Relatedness
Brian Eno Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay,... From Revolutionary to.	Hans Ulrich Obrist Curator, Serpentine Gallery, London; Editor: A Brief... The question of objects
Robert Shapiro Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Senior Research... Smothering Science with.	Sam Harris Neuroscientist; Chairman, The Reason Project; Author,... Mother Nature is Not Our.
Joseph Vardi Chairman of International Technologies Life experience changed my.	David M. Buss Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin;... Female Sexual Psychology
Susan Blackmore Psychologist; Author, Consciousness: An Introduction The Paranormal	P Z Myers Biologist; Associate Professor, University of Minnesota,... Biologist, University of.
Gerd Gigerenzer Psychologist; Director of the Center for Adaptive... The Advent of Health Literacy	Anton Zeilinger Physicist, University of Vienna; Scientific Director,... I used to think what I am.
Esther Dyson Catalyst, Information Technology Startups, EDventure... Editor, Release 1.0; Trustee,.	Martin Rees Former President, The Royal Society; Emeritus Professor... We Should Take the.
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Dimitar D. Sasselov Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University; Director,... Astrophysicist, Harvard	Francesco De Pretis Journalist, La Stampa; Italy Correspondent, Science Magazine A book on â€œWhat is.
Roger Highfield Director, External Affairs, National Museum of Science... Science as faith	Daniel Engber Writes and edits science coverage for Slate Magazine It's hard to perform ethical.
Austin Dacey Representative to the United Nations for the Center for... What Matters	Simon Baron - Cohen Psychologist, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge... Equality
David Sloan Wilson Professor of biology and anthropology at Binghamton... I Missed the Complexity.	J. Craig Venter Leading scientist of the 21st century for Genomic... The importance of doing.
Neil Gershenfeld Physicist, Director, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms;... Physicist, MIT; Author, FAB	Paul Saffo Technology Forecaster; Consulting Associate Professor,... The best forecasters will be.
Alison Gopnik Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Philosophical Baby Imagination is Real	Jordan Pollack Professor and Chairman of Computer Science, Brandeis... Electronic Mail
Chris Di Bona Open Source and Public Sector, Google Oversight and Programmer.	Beatrice Golomb Professor of Medicine at UCSD Reasoning from Evidence: A.
Stephon H. Alexander Associate Professor of Physics, Haverford College The Light Side of Locality	George Johnson Writer for the New York Times Science writer; Author, Miss.
Geoffrey Miller Evolutionary Psychologist, University of New Mexico;... Asking for directions	Barry C. Smith Professor & Director, Institute of Philosophy School of... The Experience of the.
Jesse Bering Psychologist, Director, Institute of Cognition and... I Have No Destiny (and.	Roger Bingham Cofounder and Director, The Science Network; Neuroscience... Changing My Religion
Richard Dawkins Evolutionary Biologist; Emeritus Professor of the Public... A flip-flop should be no.	Gregory Benford Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UC-Irvine; Novelist,... Evolving the laws of physics
Lera Boroditsky Assistant Professor of Psychology, Stanford University Do our languages shape the.	Jamshed Bharucha Psychologist; President, The Cooper Union for the... Education as Stretching the.
Denis Dutton Philosopher; Founder and editor, Arts & Letters Daily;... The Self-Made Species	Clay Shirky Social & Technology Network Topology Researcher; Adjunct... Religion and Science
Kai Krause Software Pioneer; Philosopher; Author, Frax: The Beauty... Software is merely a.	Linda S. Gottfredson Project for the Study of Intelligence and Society The Calculus of Small but.
Randolph Nesse Professor of Psychiatry, UM Medical School; Professor of... Truth does not reside with.	Bart Kosko Information Scientist and Professor of Electrical... THE SAMPLE MEAN
David Gelernter Computer Scientist, Yale University; Chief Scientist,... Users Are Not Reactionary.	Lewis Wolpert Professor of Biology On Pattern Formation
Ray Kurzweil Principal developer of the first omni-font optical... SETI	Mark Henderson Head of Communications, Wellcome Trust; author, The Greek... Consulting the public about.
David Goodhart Founder and editor of Prospect magazine The nation state is too big.	W. Daniel Hillis Physicist, Computer Scientist, Chairman of Applied Minds,... Try the Experiment Yourself
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering, NYU-Poly;... The Irrelevance of	Daniel Kahneman Recipient, Nobel Prize in Economics, 2002; Eugene Higgins... The sad tale of the.