2009 : WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING?

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Psychologist; Director, Quality of Life Research Center,...
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Social Psychologist; Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical...
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Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Gardener and the...
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Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Departments of...
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Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Professor, the...
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Retired Director of the American Institute of Physics
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Science writer; Author, Monsters
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Science Historian; Author, Analogia
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