2012 : WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP, ELEGANT, OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION?
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; Recipient, 2017 Nobel... |
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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Planetary Scientist; Cassini Imaging Team Leader; Director... |
Deputy Chief Scientist for Solar System Exploration, NASA... |
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Blogging and RSS Software Pioneer; Editor, Scripting News... |
Physicist, University of Vienna; Scientific Director,... |
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Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley |
Associate Professor of Psychology, Princeton University |
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Founder, the Whole Earth Catalog; Co-founder, The Well; Co-... |
Co-director of LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural... |
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Research affiliate, MIT Media Lab |
Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin;... |
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Theoretical physicist |
Professor, Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, UC... |
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Editor, The Feuilleton (Arts and Essays), of the German... |
Philosopher; Director, Scientific Vortex, Inc. |
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Neuroscientist; Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral... |
Associate Professor of Psychology, Cornell University |
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Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience; Stanford... |
Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc.; Author, WTF?:... |
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Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford... |
Department Chair; Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social... |
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Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Incognito, Sum... |
Cultural psychologist, writer, and consultant |
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Social and Cognitive Scientist; CEU Budapest and CNRS Paris... |
Reader, Behavioral Ecology, University College London |
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Chair of Developmental Psychology in Society, University of... |
Biological Anthropologist, Rutgers University; Author, Why... |
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Consultant; Adaptive Optics and Adjunct Professor of... |
Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay, Talking... |
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Physics writer; Author, Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn |
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research in the Arts,... |
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Archaeologist; Journalist; Author, Artifacts, Past Poetic |
Writer, Artist, Designer; Author; Google Artist in Residence |
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Professor & Director, Institute of Philosophy School of... |
Associate Professor of Journalism, American University;... |
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Science Writer; Fellow, Royal Society of Literature and the... |
Professor of Biological Sciences, Physics, Astronomy,... |
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Biologist; Associate Professor, University of Minnesota,... |
Master of the New College of the Humanities; Supernumerary... |
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Founder of field of Evolutionary Psychology; Co-director,... |
Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology; Scientific... |
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Information Scientist and Professor of Electrical... |
Mathematician and Economist; Managing Director of Thiel... |
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Founding Managing Director, SchoolDash; Co-organizer, Sci... |
Professor of Physics at Brown University; Author, The Jazz... |
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Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University; Director,... |
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, MetaMed Research |
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Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and... |
Independent Researcher; Author, The Princeton Field Guide... |
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Columnist, The New York Times Magazine; Editorial Director... |
Professor of Linguistics and Western Civilization, Columbia... |
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Chief Strategy Officer of The Nature Conservancy |
Professor of Mathematical Physics, Tulane University;... |
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Founding Editor, 3QuarksDaily.com |
Professor of Psychiatry, Translational Neuroscience... |
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Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Behave |
Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UC-Irvine;... |
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Professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Author,... |
Physicist, Harvard University; Author, Dark Matter and the... |
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Professor and Chairman of Computer Science, Brandeis... |
Contributing Editor, Foreign Policy; Syndicated Columnist;... |
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Nobel Prize in Physics Laureate; Senior Astrophysicist,... |
Technology Forecaster; Consulting Associate Professor,... |
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Theoretical Physicist; Aix-Marseille University, in the... |
Head of Research Group Systems, Neuroscience and Cognitive... |
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Professor and Chair of Geography; Professor of Earth,... |
Director, Cambridge Embodied Cognition and Emotion... |
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Professor of Ethology, Cambridge University; Co-author,... |
Senior Scientist, MacroCognition LLC; Author, Seeing What... |
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Philosophy and Economic Theory, the New School for Social... |
Psychiatrist; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry,... |
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Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy, Dartmouth College... |
George Putnam Professor of Biology, Harvard University;... |
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Software Pioneer; Philosopher; Author, A Realtime... |
Founder, TED Conference; EG Conference; TEDMED Conferences... |
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Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg-... |
Tisch University Professor of Computer Science, Cornell... |
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Visiting Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology; Author... |
Philosopher, Novelist; Recipient, 2014 National Humanities... |
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Computer Scientist, UC Berkeley, School of Information;... |
Classics Scholar, University Librarian, ASU; Author, Pagans |
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Director, External Affairs, Science Museum Group; Co-author... |
TV documentary producer |
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Cognitive Scientist, French National Center for Scientific... |
Psychologist; Director, Harding Center for Risk Literacy,... |
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Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford;... |
Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology, Duke University;... |
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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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Professor of Neurobiology and Psychiatry, UCSF; Author,... |
Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Translational Science... |
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Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus); Former Director... |
Recipient, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2002;... |
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Theoretical Physicist; Professor, Department of Physics,... |
Independent Investigator and Theoretician; Author, The... |
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Journalist; Editor, Nova 24, of Il Sole 24 Ore |
Social Psychologist, University of British Columbia; Co-... |
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Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Professor, the... |
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of... |
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Artist, Literary Agent; Co-Founder, Edge.org; President,... |
Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University... |
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Professor of Psychology, Hope College; Co-author,... |
Physicist, MIT; Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics;... |
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Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Gardener and the... |
Professor of Life Sciences, Director, Center for Evolution... |
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Co-founder, Pixar; Digital Imagery Pioneer & Visionary |
Computer Scientist, Yale University; Chief Scientist,... |
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Producer; Founder, Managing Director, Skyscraper... |
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of the... |
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Professor of Journalism, New York University; Former... |
Physicist, Director, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms;... |
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Professor of English and Journalism, State University of... |
Senior Consultant (and former Editor-in-Chief and... |
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Complexity Scientist; Scientist in Residence at Lux Capital... |
Psychologist; Assistant Professor of Marketing, Stern... |
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Distinguished Professor of Physiology, Pharmacology, and... |
Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of... |
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Evolutionary Biologist; Emeritus Professor of the Public... |
Neurologist and Cognitive Neuroscientist, The New School;... |
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Associate Professor, Cognitive Science, University of... |
Neuroscientist; Collège de France, Paris; Author,... |
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Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Departments of... |
Complex Network Scientist; Distinguished Professor and... |
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Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration,... |
Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, Yale... |
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Professor of Medicine at UCSD |
Practicing Neurologist, New York City; Playwright, Off-Off... |
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Psychologist, UPenn; Director, Penn Laboratory for... |
Philosopher and Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche... |
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Emeritus Professor of Psychology, London School of... |
Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation;... |
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Anthropologist, Research Director, Centre National de la... |
Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Imperial... |
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Author, The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical... |
Psychologist; Director, Quality of Life Research Center,... |
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Managing Director, Excel Venture Management; Co-author (... |
Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology;... |
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Physicist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Psychologist; Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth;... |
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Artist |
Professor of the Prehistory of Humanity, University of... |
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Physicist |
Former Financier; Author, Age of Stagnation |
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Social & Technology Network Topology Researcher;... |
Science Historian ; Author, Turing’s Cathedral; Darwin... |
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Author, Utopia is Creepy |
Theoretical Physicist; Foundation Professor, School of... |
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Psychologist, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Author... |
Editor-in-Chief of Nature since 1995; Beginning summer 2018... |
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Physicist, former President, Weizmann Institute of Science... |
Mathematician; Executive Director, H-STAR Institute,... |
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, NYU; Author,... |
Publisher, Skeptic magazine; Monthly Columnist, Scientific... |
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Clinical Psychologist; Author, What's the Matter with... |
CEO, Socratic Arts Inc.; John Evans Professor Emeritus of... |
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Mathematician, Harvard; Co-author, The Shape of Inner Space |
Mathematical Physicist, Columbia University; Author, Not... |
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Distinguished Research Fellow, English Department,... |
Actor; Writer; Director; Host, PBS program Brains on Trial... |
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Mathematician; Computer Scientist; Cyberpunk Pioneer;... |
Founding Dean, Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate... |
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Chemistry Blogger, Pipeline; Medicinal Chemist, Preclinical... |
Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co... |
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Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor of... |
Writer; Speaker; Thinker, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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Professor Emeritus, Stevens Institute of Technology; Former... |
Senior Maverick, Wired; Author, What Technology Wants and... |
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Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, Visual Intelligence |
Associate Professor of Information Sciences, University of... |
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Research Professor/Professor Emeritus, University of... |
President & CEO, Science World British Columbia;... |
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Research Associate & Lecturer, Harvard; Adjunct... |
Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard... |
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Professor, Harvard University; Director, Personal Genome... |
Professor of Cognitive Philosophy, Department of Philosophy... |
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Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Throwing Rocks... |
Professor of Geography, University of California Los... |
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Playwright & Director; Founder, The Ontological-... |
Theoretical Physicist, Caltech; Author, The Big Picture |
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Founder and CEO of Projection Point; Author, The Utopia... |
Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering, New York... |
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Director, Big History Institute and Distinguished Professor... |
Felix Bloch Professor in Theoretical Physics, Stanford;... |
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Science writer; Author, Monsters |
Former President, The Royal Society; Emeritus Professor of... |
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Psychologist; President Emeritus, Cooper Union |















