Theory of Evolution
Biologist Steve Jones on Darwin, Lamarck, and the uneasy relationship between evolution and genetics
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Biologist Steve Jones on Darwin, Lamarck, and the uneasy relationship between evolution and genetics
Paleobiologist David Martill on pterodactyls, computer X-ray tomography, and the evolution of flight
Biographer and historian of science Naomi Pasachoff on the discovery of radium and polonium, acquaintance with...
Linguist Marc van Oostendorp on international communication, beautiful and ugly sounds, and paradox of constru...
Historian Ruth Mazo Karras on church court records, means of contraception, and sex and gender roles in the Mi...
Neuroscientist John Krystal on flashbacks, relative merits of different treatments, and brain tissue collectio...
Computer scientist Joseph Brown on Darwinian evolution, genetic algorithms, and the zombie apocalypse
Astronomer David Jewitt on his discovery of the first Kuiper Belt object, origins of comets, and planetary mig...
Neuroscientist Paul Allen on schizophrenia, self-regulation of neural activity, and famous voice-hearers
Mars Science Laboratory Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada on finding signs of a habitable environement, the Ra...
Geologist Philip Gibbard on Louis Agassiz, the Quaternary, and the Effects of Global Warming
Linguist Kenneth Wexler on human capacity for language, verb raising in French, and Noam Chomsky's Universal G...