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Jaan Tallinn - Existential Risk [4.16.15] Apr 16, 2015

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JAAN TALLINN is a co-founder of The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at University of Cambridge, UK as well as The Future of Life Institute in Cambridge, MA. He is also a founding engineer of Kazaa and Skype. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/jaan_tallinn-existential-risk

Yuval Noah Harari & Daniel Kahneman - Death Is Optional Mar 04, 2015

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YUVAL NOAH HARARI, Lecturer, Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.

DANIEL KAHNEMAN is the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 2002 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2013. He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton, and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow.

The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/yuval_noah_harari-daniel_kahneman-death-is-optional

Neil Gershenfeld - Digital Reality [1.23.15] Jan 23, 2015

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NEIL GERSHENFELD is a Physicist and the Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms. He is the author of FAB. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/neil_gershenfeld-digital-reality

Chiara Marletto - Formulating Science in Terms of Possible and Impossible Tasks [12.6.14] Dec 06, 2014

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CHIARA MARLETTO is a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College and Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Materials Department, University of Oxford; Currently working with David Deutsch. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/chiara_marletto-formulating-science-in-terms-of-possible-and-impossible-tasks

Margaret Levi - Entwined Fates [11.24.14] Nov 24, 2014

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MARGARET LEVI is the Director of the Center For Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is the Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies at the University of Washington. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/margaret_levi-entwined-fates

Naomi Eisenberger - Social Pain [9.10.14] Sep 10, 2014

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NAOMI EISENBERGER is a professor in the Social Psychology Program at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is director of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory as well as co-director of the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/naomi_eisenberger-social-pain

Richard Prum - Duck Sex, Aesthetic Evolution, and the Origin of Beauty [9.3.14] Sep 03, 2014

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RICHARD PRUM is an evolutionary ornithologist at Yale University, where he is the Curator of Ornithology and Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/richard_prum-duck-sex-aesthetic-evolution-and-the-origin-of-beauty

Matthew Lieberman - Latitudes of Acceptance [8.22.14] Aug 22, 2014

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MATTHEW D. LIEBERMAN is a professor of psychology at UCLA. He is the author of Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/matthew_d_lieberman-latitudes-of-acceptance

Jonathan Gottschall - The Way We Live Our Lives in Stories [7.28.14] Jul 28, 2014

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JONATHAN GOTTSCHALL is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the English Department at Washington & Jefferson College. He is the author or editor of six books, including The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (a _New York Times _Editor’s Choice Selection and a finalist for the _LA Times _Book Prize). The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/jonathan_gottschall-the-way-we-live-our-lives-in-stories

Steven Pinker - Writing in the 21st Century [6.9.14] Jun 09, 2014

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STEVEN PINKER is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He is the author of ten books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and_ The Sense of Style_ (September). The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/steven_pinker-writing-in-the-21st-century

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