2008 : WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY?

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2008 : WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY?

Veridical Perception Donald D. Hoffman Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, Visual Intelligence	Wrestling with Jean Piaget, my Paragon Howard Gardner Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard...
The Omniscience and Omnipotence of Science Colin Tudge Biologist; Author, Six Steps Back to the Land	I stopped cheering for the Romans James J. O'Donnell Classics Scholar, University Librarian, ASU; Author, Pagans
The Nature of Human Nature Michael Shermer Publisher, Skeptic magazine; Monthly Columnist, Scientific...	Psychologist, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Author: The Cognitive Brain Arnold Trehub Psychologist, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Author...
Clear and simple is not the same as provable and well defined Haim Harari Physicist, former President, Weizmann Institute of Science...	The Fallacy of Hypothesis Testing Irene Pepperberg Research Associate & Lecturer, Harvard; Adjunct...
The Universe's Expansion Gino Segre Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of...	The Bible Is Inane David Bodanis Writer; Futurist; Author, Einstein's Greatest Mistake
Soul Searching Todd E. Feinberg M.D. is Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at...	Explanations Piet Hut professor of astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced...
In Praise of Fishing Expeditions Robert Provine Research Professor/Professor Emeritus, University of...	Everything Nick Bostrom Professor, Oxford University; Director, Future of Humanity...
The Internet Douglas Rushkoff Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Throwing Rocks...	The Limits Of Darwinian Reasoning Marc D. Hauser Psychologist and Biologist, Harvard University: Author,...
Can Robots See God? Rudy Rucker Mathematician; Computer Scientist; Cyberpunk Pioneer;...	Writer and Television Producer; Author, The Riemann Hypothesis Karl Sabbagh Producer; Founder, Managing Director, Skyscraper...
There are No Moral Facts Thomas Metzinger Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg-...	Physicist; Technical Consultant; Science Fiction Writer; Author, The Transparent Society David Brin Scientist; Speaker; Technical Consultant; Author, Existence
Neuroscientist, New York University; Author, The Synaptic Self Joseph LeDoux Professor of Neural Science, Psychology, Psychiatry, and...	How I Became An Evolutionary Psychologist Dan Sperber Social and Cognitive Scientist; CEU Budapest and CNRS Paris...
Predicting the Future Ed Regis Science writer; Author, Monsters	We Are Alone Martin Seligman Professor and Director, Positive Psychology Center,...
The Obligations and Responsibilities of The Scientist Leon M. Lederman Director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory	Physicist, Institute of Advanced Study, Author, A Many Colored Glass Freeman Dyson Physicist
We Differ More Than We Thought Mark Pagel Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Reading University, UK;...	Relativism Timothy Taylor Professor of the Prehistory of Humanity, University of...
To Unify or Not: That is the Question Marcelo Gleiser Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy, Dartmouth College...	Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, The Trouble With Physics Lee Smolin Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Time Reborn
Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology Max Tegmark Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology; Scientific...	Futurist, Business Strategist; Cofounder. Global Business Network, a Monitor Company; Author, The Long Boom Peter Schwartz Futurist; Senior Vice President for Global Government...
Whats Special About Human Language Gary Marcus Professor of Psychology, Director NYU Center for Language...	Maybe MBAs Should Design Computers After All David Dalrymple Research affiliate, MIT Media Lab
The Death of the Dinosaurs Scott Sampson President & CEO, Science World British Columbia;...	If we could just get people to understand the science, they'd agree with us.Not Lee M. Silver professor at Princeton University in the Department of...
Homeopathic Bias and Language Origins Daniel L. Everett Linguistic Researcher; Dean of Arts and Sciences, Bentley...	Professor of Journalism, New York University; formerly journalist, Science magazine; Author, Zero: The Biography Of A Dangerous Idea Charles Seife Professor of Journalism, New York University; Former...
Being Caught In The Language Trap â€” Or Wittgenstein's Straitjacket Ernst Pöppel Head of Research Group Systems, Neuroscience and Cognitive...	Rapid climate change Laurence C. Smith Professor and Chair of Geography; Professor of Earth,...
Social psychologist, Hope College; author, Psychology, 8th edition David G. Myers Professor of Psychology, Hope College; Co-author,...	What created the structure of the universe? Paul J. Steinhardt Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Departments of...
Attitudes Trump Facts John Mccarthy Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University	The Science of Self-deception Requires a Deep Understanding of Biology Robert Trivers Evolutionary Biologist; Professor of Anthropology and...
Mathematician; Executive Director, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford; Author, The Keith Devlin Mathematician; Executive Director, H-STAR Institute,...	The Myth of the "Open Mind" Steve Nadis Contributing Editor to Astronomy Magazine and a freelance...
Computation as the Ultimate Metaphor Rodney A. Brooks Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus); Former Director...	Retired Physicist & Writer; Coauthor (with John Archibald Wheeler), Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics Kenneth W. Ford Retired Director of the American Institute of Physics
Planned Obsolescence? The Four-Year Itch Helen Fisher Biological Anthropologist, Rutgers University; Author, Why...	Editor-At-Large, Wired; Author, New Rules for the New Economy Kevin Kelly Senior Maverick, Wired; Author, What Technology Wants and...
Should I be thinking about quantum gravity? John Baez Mathematical Physicist, U.C. Riverside	Permanent Reincarnation Tor Nørretranders Writer; Speaker; Thinker, Copenhagen, Denmark
I Used To Think I Could Change My Mind Antony Garrett Lisi Theoretical physicist	Neuroscientist, Stanford University, Author, A Primate's Memoir Robert Sapolsky Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Behave
The Impressionable Brain Marcel Kinsbourne Neurologist and Cognitive Neuroscientist, The New School;...	Brain Plasticity Leo M. Chalupa Neurobiologist; Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology,...
Evolution of Faith In Experiments George Church Professor, Harvard University; Director, Personal Genome...	A Big Mind Change At Age 10: Vacuums Don't Suck! Alan Kay Founding member of Xerox PARC; President of Viewpoints...
The Benefit of Being Able to Change My Mind Daniel Gilbert Professor of Psychology at Harvard University	Generalization Judith Rich Harris Independent Investigator and Theoretician; Author, The...
Computational Analysis of Language Requires Understanding Language Marti Hearst Computer Scientist, UC Berkeley, School of Information;...	What I've Changed My Mind About Sherry Turkle Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of...
Human Spaceflight Oliver Morton Chief News and Features Editor	I used to be a committed Platonist. Paul Davies Theoretical physicist; cosmologist; astro-biologist; co-...
Changing My Mind About the Mind-Body Problem John Horgan Director, Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of...	Good Old Stuff Sucks Stewart Brand Founder, the Whole Earth Catalog; Co-founder, The Well; Co-...
Have Humans Stopped Evolving? Steven Pinker Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology;...	AI? Roger Schank CEO, Socratic Arts Inc.; John Evans Professor Emeritus of...
Being a Heretic is Hard Work Sean Carroll Theoretical Physicist, Caltech; Author, The Big Picture	So far, I've changed my mind twice about God. Alan Alda Actor; Writer; Director; Host, PBS program Brains on Trial...
There is nothing to add to the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics. Carlo Rovelli Theoretical Physicist; Aix-Marseille University, in the...	Quantum Mechanical Engineer, MIT, Author, Programming the Universe Seth Lloyd Professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Author,...
The Human Recipe Richard Wrangham Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Curator of...	Changing my Mind Patrick Bateson* Professor of Ethology, Cambridge University; Co-author,...
Online Communities Rot Without Daily Tending By Human Hands Xeni Jardin Tech Culture Journalist; Partner, Contributor, Co-editor,...	Exchanging Your Mind Gary Klein Senior Scientist, MacroCognition LLC; Author, Seeing What...
The eradication of irrational thinking is (not) inevitable (it will require some serious work) Marco Iacoboni Neuroscientist; Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral...	Sports and fraternities are not so bad Jonathan Haidt Social Psychologist; Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical...
Climate Change: Warming Up To The Evidence Stephen Schneider climatologist, is a professor in the Department of...	The World in the Brain Stephen M. Kosslyn Founding Dean, Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate...
The Religious Politics of Fictive Kinship Scott Atran Anthropologist, Research Director, Centre National de la...	I have changed my mind about cortical neurons and now think that they are far more capable than we ever imagined. Terrence J. Sejnowski Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Professor, the...
From A Simple Truth To Diane F. Halpern Professor, Claremont McKenna College; Past-president,...	What is the Universe Made of and How Will it End? Lawrence M. Krauss Theoretical Physicist; Foundation Professor, School of...
Editor, Release 1.0; Trustee, Long Now Foundation; Author, Release 2.0 Esther Dyson Catalyst, Information Technology Startups, EDventure...	Smothering Science with Silence Robert Shapiro Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Senior Research...
Culture can change our genes Nicholas A. Christakis Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, Yale...	That empirical data of journalism are no match for the bigger picture of science Andrian Kreye Editor, The Feuilleton (Arts and Essays), of the German...
What Matters Austin Dacey Representative to the United Nations for the Center for...	The Radiant and Infectious Web Nicholas G. Carr Author, Utopia is Creepy
The Convergence of Belief Change John Allen Paulos professor of mathematics at Temple University	Mother Nature is Not Our Friend Sam Harris Neuroscientist; Philosopher; Author, Waking Up
Competition in the brain Daniel C. Dennett Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co...	The Inexplicable Monks Daniel Goleman Psychologist; Author (with Richard Davidson), Altered Traits
Equality Simon Baron-Cohen Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of...	Physicist, Harvard University; Author, Warped Passages Lisa Randall Physicist, Harvard University; Author, Dark Matter and the...
We Should Take the 'Posthuman' Era Seriously Martin Rees Former President, The Royal Society; Emeritus Professor of...	The soul is in the brain Eduardo Punset Scientist; Spanish Television Presenter; Author, The...
Life experience changed my mind Joseph "Yossi" Vardi chairman of International Technologies	Technology is Not So Bad Adam Bly Head of Advanced Analytics, Spotify
Neuroeconomics really explains human economic behavior James Geary Deputy Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard...	The Mechanical Worldview Brian Goodwin Professor of Biology at Schumacher College
Physicist, Columbia University; Author, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines Janna Levin Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Barnard College of...	Falsifiability Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Philosopher, Novelist; Recipient, 2014 National Humanities...
Female Sexual Psychology David M. Buss Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin;...	The hardness of the problem of consciousness is the key to its solution Nicholas Humphrey Emeritus Professor of Psychology, London School of...
I was skeptical of the term Tim O'Reilly Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc.; Author, WTF?:...	Planetary Scientist; Cassini Imaging Science Team Leader; Director CICLOPS, Boulder CO; Adjunct Professor, University of Colorado Carolyn Porco Planetary Scientist; Cassini Imaging Team Leader; Director...
Computer Scientist and Musician; Columnist, Discover Magazine Jaron Lanier Computer Scientist; Musician; Author, Who Owns The Future?	The Paranormal Susan Blackmore Psychologist; Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth;...
Trusting Experts Paul W. Ewald Professor of Biology, Amherst College; Author, Plague Time	Editor-in Chief, Nature Philip Campbell Editor-in-Chief of Nature since 1995; Beginning summer 2018...
Greenland changed my mind William H. Calvin Theoretical Neurobiologist; Affiliate Professor Emeritus,...	Astrophysicist, Harvard Dimitar D. Sasselov Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University; Director,...
The source of long term power Juan Enriquez Managing Director, Excel Venture Management; Co-author (...	Biologist, University of Minnesota; blogger, Pharyngula P Z Myers Biologist; Associate Professor, University of Minnesota,...
Reassessing Relatedness Seirian Sumner Reader, Behavioral Ecology, University College London	The Science Formerly Known as Religion Frank Wilczek Physicist, MIT; Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics;...
Making and Changing Minds Mary Catherine Bateson Professor Emerita, George Mason University; Visiting...	A book on â€œWhat is really Science? Francesco DePretis Journalist, La Stampa; Italy Correspondent, Science Magazine
Russian America George Dyson Science Historian ; Author, Turing’s Cathedral; Darwin...	The Advent of Health Literacy Gerd Gigerenzer Psychologist; Director, Harding Center for Risk Literacy,...
From Revolutionary to Evolutionary Brian Eno Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay, Talking...	Seeing Through a Carbon Lens Christopher J. Anderson Curator, TED conferences, TED Talks; author, TED Talks
The Brain's SchrÃ¶dinger Equation Stanislas Dehaene Neuroscientist; Collège de France, Paris; Author,...	Science as faith Roger Highfield Director, External Affairs, Science Museum Group; Co-author...
More dumbbells but more Nobels: Why men are at the top Helena Cronin Co-director of LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural...	I used to think what I am doing is Anton Zeilinger Physicist, University of Vienna; Scientific Director,...
The question of objects Hans Ulrich Obrist Curator, Serpentine Gallery, London; Editor: A Brief...	The skepticism of believers Rupert Sheldrake biologist and author
Breathtaking New Technologies Linda Stone Hi-Tech Industry Consultant; Former Executive at Apple...	It's hard to perform ethical research on animals Daniel Engber Columnist, Slate
Curiosity is addictive, and this is not an entirely good thing Aubrey de Grey Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation;...	Truth does not reside with smart university experts Randolph Nesse Professor of Life Sciences, Director, Center for Evolution...
A flip-flop should be no handicap Richard Dawkins Evolutionary Biologist; Emeritus Professor of the Public...	Oversight and Programmer productivity Chris DiBona Open Source and Public Sector, Google
The Irrelevance of Nassim Nicholas Taleb Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering, New York...	THE SAMPLE MEAN Bart Kosko Information Scientist and Professor of Electrical...
Evolving the laws of physics Gregory Benford Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UC-Irvine;...	Reasoning from Evidence: A Call for Education Beatrice Golomb Professor of Medicine at UCSD
The sad tale of the aspiration treadmill Daniel Kahneman Recipient, Nobel Prize in Economics, 2002; Eugene Higgins...	Users Are Not Reactionary After All David Gelernter Computer Scientist, Yale University; Chief Scientist,...
Do our languages shape the nuts and bolts of perception, the very way we see the world? Lera Boroditsky Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, UCSD	The Light Side of Locality Stephon H. Alexander Professor of Physics at Brown University; Author, The Jazz...
I Missed the Complexity Revolution David Sloan Wilson SUNY distinguished professor of biology and anthropology,...	On Pattern Formation Lewis Wolpert Professor of Biology
Education as Stretching the Mind Jamshed Bharucha Psychologist; President Emeritus, Cooper Union	Science writer; Author, Miss Leavitt's Stars George Johnson Author; The Cancer Chronicles, The Ten Most Beautiful...
The importance of doing something now about the environment. J. Craig Venter A leading scientist of the 21st century for Genomic...	SETI Ray Kurzweil Principal Developer of the first omni-font optical...
The Self-Made Species Denis Dutton Philosopher; Founder and Editor, Arts & Letters Daily;...	Asking for directions Geoffrey Miller Evolutionary psychologist, NYU Stern Business School and...
Physicist, MIT; Author, FAB Neil Gershenfeld Physicist, Director, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms;...	Consulting the public about science isn't always a waste of time â€” but consulting bioethicists often is Mark Henderson Head of Communications, Wellcome Trust; Author, The Greek...
Religion and Science Clay Shirky Social & Technology Network Topology Researcher;...	The Experience of the Normally Functioning Mind is the Exception Barry C. Smith Professor & Director, Institute of Philosophy School of...
The best forecasters will be computers Paul Saffo Technology Forecaster; Consulting Associate Professor,...	Software is merely a Performance Art Kai Krause Software Pioneer; Philosopher; Author, A Realtime...
I Have No Destiny (and Neither Do You) Jesse Bering Psychologist; Associate Professor, Centre for Science...	Imagination is Real Alison Gopnik Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Gardener and the...
The nation state is too big for the local things, too small for the international things and the root of most of the world's ills David Goodhart Founder and Editor of Prospect magazine	The Calculus of Small but Consistent Effects Linda S. Gottfredson Project for the Study of Intelligence and Society
Changing My Religion Roger Bingham Cofounder and Director, The Science Network; Neuroscience...	Electronic Mail Jordan Pollack Professor and Chairman of Computer Science, Brandeis...
Try the Experiment Yourself W. Daniel Hillis Physicist, Computer Scientist, Co-Founder, Applied...