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Moons of Jupiter

Physicist Michele Dougherty on the exploration of Jupiter’s moons, Europa’s ice crust and the internal ocean on Ganymede

Genetic Diversity in Humans

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Visual Perspective Taking

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Laws of Growth and Natural Selection

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Language of Politics

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Ethics for an Age of Commerce

Economist Deirdre McCloskey on fundamental human virtues, their secular interpretation and necessary application in modern economy

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Behavioral Genetics

Behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin on twin studies, genetic influence of parents on their children, and 1% of DNA that makes people different

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Statistics and State in USSR

Historian Alain Blum on statistics as a tool of government and propaganda, the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s, and unresolved social problems

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Why Does Earth Have a Moon?

Astronomer Denilso Camargo on the origin of the Moon, its interaction with the Sun and Earth, and formation processes of terrestrial planets

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DNA Breathing

Boston University Professor Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii on the double helix structure of DNA, formaldehyde reactivity, and the Hoogsteen pairing

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Brain’s Navigational System

Neuroscientist Freyja Ólafsdóttir on the hippocampus, place cells, and the cognitive map

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What is the definition of a robot?

Robotics expert Mel Siegel on the features that a machine must have to be called a robot, previous studies, and the future of the field

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Condenced Matter and Superconductivity

Physicist Cedric Weber on high-temperature superconductivity, the highest possible critical temperature, and Andrey Abrikosov

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Adrenaline

Medical Scientist Brian Hoffman on the discovery of adrenaline, the “fight or flight response”, and the use of adrenaline in the drug industry

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Circumbinary Planets

MIT Prof. Joshua Winn on multiple stars, coplanar systems, and radius of instability