2012 : WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP, ELEGANT, OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION?

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