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

Professor, Financial Engineering, Columbia University;...
Software Engineer, Computer Scientist, Entrepreneur,...
CEO and Managing Director, Intellectual Ventures; Co-Author...
Neuroscientist; Professor & Director, Center for Brain...
Theoretical Physicist, Stanford; Father of Eternal Chaotic...
Father of Behavioral Economics; Director, Center for...
Researcher, MIT, Mind Machine Project
Journalist: Author, A Planet of Viruses; Science Ink:...
Co-Director of LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural...
Professor of Theoretical Physics, Berkeley
Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin;...
Theoretical physicist
Editor, The Feuilleton (Arts and Essays), of the German...
Colombian philosopher
Neuroscientist; Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral...
Psychologist, Cornell University
Psychologist; Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social...
Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience;...
Founder and CEO of O Reilly Media, Inc.
Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford...
Social and Cognitive Scientist; CEU Budapest and CNRS Paris...
Neuroscientist, Baylor College of Medicine; Author,...
Cultural psychologist, writer, and consultant
Planetary Scientist; Cassini Imaging Team Leader; Director...
Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Biology School, University...
Blogging and RSS Software Pioneer; Editor, Scripting News...
Physicist, University of Vienna; Scientific Director,...
Planetary Scientist and Astrobiologist, NASA Jet Propulsion...
Associate Professor of Psychology, Princeton University
Founder, The Whole Earth Catalog; Co-founder, The Well; Co-...
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of California
Writer, Artist, Designer; Author, Generation A
Professor & Director, Institute of Philosophy School of...
Associate Professor of Journalism, Annenberg School for...
Science Writer; Founding chairman of the International...
Professor of Biological Sciences, Physics, Astronomy,...
Biologist; Associate Professor, University of Minnesota,...
Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of...
Founder of field of Evolutionary Psychology; Co-director,...
Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology; Scientific...
Managing Director, Digital Science, Macmillan Publishers...
Information Scientist and Professor of Electrical...
Mathematician and Economist; Principal, Natron Group
Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology, Yale...
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth...
Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University; Director,...
President, Singularity Institute
Physicist, Atmospheric and Oceanic Scientist; Partner,...
Independent Researcher; Author, The Princeton Field Guide...
National Correspondent, Yahoo News; Ph.D., English, Harvard
Linguist; Cultural Commentator; Senior Fellow, Manhattan...
Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay, Talking...
Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre in the...
Biological Anthropologist, Rutgers University; Author, Why...
Consultant; Adaptive Optics and Adjunct Professor of...
Consultant, New Scientist; Founding Editor, CultureLab"
Academic; Newspaper Columnist; Vice-President, Wolfson...
Archaeologist, Journalist; Author, Artifacts
Founder, TED Conference; eg Conference; TEDMED Conferences...
Philosophisches Seminar, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität...
Technology Forecaster; Consulting Associate Professor,...
Visiting Professor, Center for Maritime System; Author, The...
Philosopher, Novelist; Author, Betraying Spinoza; 36...
Director, Cambridge Embodied Cognition and Emotion...
Professor of Mathematical Physics, Tulane University;...
Founding Editor, 3QuarksDaily.com
Psychiatrist; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry,...
Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Monkeyluv
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UC-Irvine; Novelist,...
Professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Author,...
Software Pioneer; Philosopher; Author, "The History of...
Professor and Chairman of Computer Science, Brandeis...
Contributing Editor, Foreign Policy; Syndicated Columnist;...
Senior Astrophysicist, Observational Cosmology Laboratory,...
Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University
Theoretical Physicist; University of the Mediterraneum,...
Neuroscientist; Chairman, Board of Directors Human Science...
Professor of Geography, UCLA; Author, The World in 2050
Computer Scientist, UC Berkeley, School of Information;...
Professor of Ethology, Cambridge University; Co-author,...
Senior Scientist, MacroCognition LLC; Author, Sources of...
Systems-Level Thinker; Futurist; Applied Genomics Expert;...
Professor of Psychiatry, Member of the Duke Institute of...
Theoretical Physicist, Dartmouth College; Author, A Tear a...
Associate Professor of Biology in Harvard's Department...
Physicist, Harvard University; Author, Warped Passages;...
Psychologist, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge University...
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, 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; Co-...
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...
Professor of Journalism, New York University; formerly...
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, Harvard University, Director, Personal Genome...
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...
Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering, NYU-Poly;...
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...
Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer. SENS Foundation;...
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...
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
Physicist/Cosmologist, ASU; Author, A Universe from Nothing
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...
Clinical Psychologist; Author, What's the Matter with...
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...
Psychologist; Director, Center for Advanced Study in the...
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...
Editor at Large, Wired, Author-What Technology Wants
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,...