EdgeCast Podcast
1) Daniel Kahneman - Adversarial Collaboration
DANIEL KAHNEMAN is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton University, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, and co-author (with Cass R. Sunstein and Olivier Sibony) of Noise. He is th...Show More
2) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow: Positive Human Behavior
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI (1934-2021) (pronounced "chick-SENT-me high") was a Hungarian-born polymath who recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow," a highly focused mental state conduciv...Show More
3) Larry Brilliant - A Very Bumpy Ride
Epidemiologist and pandemic expert LARRY BRILLIANT, MD, is on the Advisory Board for Ending Pandemics. He is also on the board of the Skoll Foundation and was the founding executive director of Google...Show More
4) David Kaiser - The Shifting Terrain of Scientific Inquiry
DAVID KAISER is the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of physics at MIT. He is the author, most recently, of Quantum Legacies. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conve...Show More
5) Ainissa Ramirez - Interrogating and Shaping the World Through Science
AINISSA RAMIREZ is a materials scientist and science communicator. She is the author, most recently, of The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another. The Conversation: https://www....Show More
6) Stephen Wolfram - Computation All the Way Down
STEPHEN WOLFRAM is a scientist, inventor, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. He is the creator of the symbolic computation program Mathematica and its programming language, Wolfram Language,...Show More
7) Laurence C. Smith - How Humans Make the Earth Their Home
LAURENCE C. SMITH is the John Atwater and Diana Nelson University Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University. He is the author,...Show More
8) Toby Ord - We Have the Power to Destroy Ourselves Without the Wisdom to Ensure That We Don't
TOBY ORD is a senior research fellow in philosophy at Oxford University and author of _The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. _The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/...Show More
9) Donald Hoffman - Realism Is False
DONALD D. HOFFMAN is a full professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author, most recently, of The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our E...Show More
10) Lee Smolin - The Causal Theory of Views
LEE SMOLIN, a theoretical physicist, is a founding and senior faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada. His main contributions have been so far to the quantum theory...Show More