2012 : WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP, ELEGANT, OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION?
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Professor, Financial Engineering, Columbia University;... |
Theoretical Physicist, Stanford; Father of Eternal Chaotic... |
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Father of Behavioral Economics; Director, Center for... |
Software Engineer, Computer Scientist, Entrepreneur,... |
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CEO and Managing Director, Intellectual Ventures; Co-Author... |
Neuroscientist; Professor & Director, Center for Brain... |
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Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience;... |
Founder and CEO of O Reilly Media, Inc. |
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Psychologist, Cornell University |
Psychologist; Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social... |
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Neuroscientist, Baylor College of Medicine; Author,... |
Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford... |
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Social and Cognitive Scientist; CEU Budapest and CNRS Paris... |
Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Biology School, University... |
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Cultural psychologist, writer, and consultant |
Planetary Scientist; Cassini Imaging Team Leader; Director... |
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Planetary Scientist and Astrobiologist, NASA Jet Propulsion... |
Blogging and RSS Software Pioneer; Editor, Scripting News... |
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Physicist, University of Vienna; Scientific Director,... |
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of California |
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Princeton University |
Founder, The Whole Earth Catalog; Co-founder, The Well; Co-... |
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Co-Director of LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural... |
Researcher, MIT, Mind Machine Project |
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Journalist: Author, A Planet of Viruses; Science Ink:... |
Theoretical physicist |
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Professor of Theoretical Physics, Berkeley |
Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin;... |
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Colombian philosopher |
Neuroscientist; Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral... |
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Editor, The Feuilleton (Arts and Essays), of the German... |
Mathematician and Economist; Principal, Natron Group |
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Managing Director, Digital Science, Macmillan Publishers... |
Information Scientist and Professor of Electrical... |
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Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University; Director,... |
President, Singularity Institute |
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Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology, Yale... |
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth... |
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National Correspondent, Yahoo News; Ph.D., English, Harvard |
Linguist; Cultural Commentator; Senior Fellow, Manhattan... |
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Physicist, Atmospheric and Oceanic Scientist; Partner,... |
Independent Researcher; Author, The Princeton Field Guide... |
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Consultant; Adaptive Optics and Adjunct Professor of... |
Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay, Talking... |
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Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre in the... |
Biological Anthropologist, Rutgers University; Author, Why... |
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Archaeologist, Journalist; Author, Artifacts |
Consultant, New Scientist; Founding Editor, CultureLab" |
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Academic; Newspaper Columnist; Vice-President, Wolfson... |
Associate Professor of Journalism, Annenberg School for... |
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Writer, Artist, Designer; Author, Generation A |
Professor & Director, Institute of Philosophy School of... |
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Biologist; Associate Professor, University of Minnesota,... |
Science Writer; Founding chairman of the International... |
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Professor of Biological Sciences, Physics, Astronomy,... |
Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology; Scientific... |
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Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of... |
Founder of field of Evolutionary Psychology; Co-director,... |
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Software Pioneer; Philosopher; Author, "The History of... |
Founder, TED Conference; eg Conference; TEDMED Conferences... |
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Philosophisches Seminar, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität... |
Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University |
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Visiting Professor, Center for Maritime System; Author, The... |
Philosopher, Novelist; Author, Betraying Spinoza; 36... |
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Computer Scientist, UC Berkeley, School of Information;... |
Founding Editor, 3QuarksDaily.com |
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Professor of Mathematical Physics, Tulane University;... |
Professor of Psychiatry, Member of the Duke Institute of... |
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UC-Irvine; Novelist,... |
Professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Author,... |
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Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Monkeyluv |
Physicist, Harvard University; Author, Warped Passages;... |
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Contributing Editor, Foreign Policy; Syndicated Columnist;... |
Senior Astrophysicist, Observational Cosmology Laboratory,... |
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Professor and Chairman of Computer Science, Brandeis... |
Technology Forecaster; Consulting Associate Professor,... |
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Neuroscientist; Chairman, Board of Directors Human Science... |
Professor of Geography, UCLA; Author, The World in 2050 |
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Theoretical Physicist; University of the Mediterraneum,... |
Director, Cambridge Embodied Cognition and Emotion... |
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Senior Scientist, MacroCognition LLC; Author, Sources of... |
Systems-Level Thinker; Futurist; Applied Genomics Expert;... |
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Professor of Ethology, Cambridge University; Co-author,... |
Psychiatrist; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry,... |
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Theoretical Physicist, Dartmouth College; Author, A Tear a... |
Associate Professor of Biology in Harvard's Department... |
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Neuroscientist; Collège de France, Paris; Author, The... |
Distinguished Professor of Physiology, Pharmacology, and... |
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Evolutionary Biologist; Emeritus Professor of the Public... |
Neurologist & Cognitive Neuroscientist, The New School... |
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Associate Professor, Cognitive Science, University of... |
Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Departments of... |
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Psychologist, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge University... |
Psychologist, UPenn; Director, Penn Laboratory for... |
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Associate Professor of Marketing, Harvard Business School;... |
Physician and Social Scientist, Harvard University;... |
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Professor of Medicine at UCSD |
Practicing Neurologist, New York City; Playwright, Off-Off... |
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Complex Network Scientist; Distinguished Professor and... |
Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford;... |
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Director, External Affairs, Science Museum Group; Co-author... |
TV documentary producer |
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Postdoc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics program at... |
Psychologist; Director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior... |
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Classical Scholar, University Professor, Georgetown... |
Professor of Neurobiology and Psychiatry, UCSF; Author,... |
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Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Time Reborn |
Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University;... |
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Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of... |
Curator, Serpentine Gallery, London; Editor: A Brief... |
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Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology, Duke University;... |
Independent Investigator and Theoretician; Author, The... |
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Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Research Institute;... |
Roboticist; Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus) ,... |
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Recipient, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2002;... |
theoretical physicist; Professor, Department of Physics,... |
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Journalist; Editor, Nova 24, of Il Sole 24 Ore |
Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University... |
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Social Psychologist, University of British Columbia |
Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Professor, the... |
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Psychologist, MIT; Internet Culture Researcher; Author,... |
Artist; Co-Founder, Edge.org; President, Brockman, Inc.;... |
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Professor of Psychology, Hope College; author Psychology,... |
Computer Scientist, Yale University; Chief Scientist,... |
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Physicist, MIT; Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics;... |
Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Philosophical Baby |
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Professor of Psychiatry, UM Medical School; Professor of... |
Co-founder, Pixar; Digital Imagery Pioneer & Visionary |
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Writer and Television Producer; Author, Remembering Our... |
Applied Mathematician; Senior Scholar, Research and Policy... |
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Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of the... |
Physicist, Director, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms;... |
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Professor of English at the University at Albany; Author,... |
Senior Consultant (& former Ed-in-Chief &... |
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Psychologist; Assistant Professor of Marketing, Stern... |
Professor of Journalism, New York University; formerly... |
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Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Present Shock |
Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard... |
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Philosopher and Cognitive Scientist, University of... |
Professor of Geography, University of California Los... |
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Playwright & Director; Founder, The Ontological-... |
Research Associate & Lecturer, Harvard; Adjunct... |
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Professor, Harvard University, Director, Personal Genome... |
Felix Bloch Professor in Theoretical Physics, Stanford;... |
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Former President, The Royal Society; Emeritus Professor of... |
Founder and CEO of Projection Point; author, Risk... |
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Professor of History, Macquarie University, Sydney; Author... |
Science writer; Author, Regenesis |
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Psychologist; President, The Cooper Union for the... |
Theoretical Physicist, Caltech; Author, From Eternity to... |
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Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering, NYU-Poly;... |
Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Imperial... |
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Psychologist; Director, Quality of Life Research Center,... |
Emeritus School Professor, The London School of Economics... |
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Anthropologist, National Center for Scientific Research,... |
Author, The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical... |
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Managing Director Excel Venture Management; Author, As the... |
Philosopher and Researcher, C.N.R.S. Paris; Author, Text-E... |
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Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer. SENS Foundation;... |
Artist |
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Professor of Physics, Institute for Advanced Study; Author... |
Psychologist; Author, Consciousness: An Introduction |
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Archaeologist, Professor of the Prehistory of Humanity,... |
Expert, Financial Derivatives and Risk; Author, Extreme... |
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Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology;... |
Physicist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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Editor-in Chief, Nature |
Author, The Shallows and The Big Switch |
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Psychologist, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Author... |
Physicist, former President, Weizmann Institute of Science... |
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Social & Technology Network Topology Researcher;... |
Science Historian; Author, Turing's Cathedral: The... |
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Physicist/Cosmologist, ASU; Author, A Universe from Nothing |
Mathematician, Harvard; Co-author, The Shape of Inner Space |
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Publisher, Skeptic magazine; monthly columnist, Scientific... |
Psychologist & Computer Scientist; Engines for... |
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Mathematical Physicist, Columbia University; Author, Not... |
Executive Director, H-STAR Institute, Stanford University;... |
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, NYU... |
Clinical Psychologist; Author, What's the Matter with... |
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Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co... |
Mathematician, Computer Scientist; CyberPunk Pioneer;... |
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Chemistry Blogger, Pipeline; Medicinal Chemist, Preclinical... |
Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan; Author,... |
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English Department Washington & Jefferson College;... |
Actor, Writer, Director; Host of PBS program The Human... |
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Psychologist; Director, Center for Advanced Study in the... |
Computational Legal Scholar; Assistant Professor of... |
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professor emeritus, Stevens Institute of Technology; fromer... |
Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, Visual Intelligence |
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Psychologist and Neuroscientist, University of Maryland;... |
Dinosaur paleontologist and science communicator; Author,... |
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Science Writer; Consultant; Lecturer, Copenhagen; Author,... |
Editor at Large, Wired, Author-What Technology Wants |








