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James Watson: “I believe that the most important people now are the chemists, not the DNA people”

One of the discoverers of the structure of DNA on cancer, biochemistry and personalized medicines

Reverse Engineering in Biology

Harvard Research Scientist Leonid Peshkin on cell models, experiments in silico, and drug discovery

How Can Light Be Used to Repair Neurons?

Biologist Hernán López-Schier on optogenetics, photo-uncaging of chemical compounds, and Parkinsonian mice

Language and Artificial Intelligence

Linguist David Adger on the Facebook chatbots experiment, the history of getting the AI to understand and speak human languages and what’s the difference between humans and computers in using language

The Microbiome and Metabolism

Biochemist Ian Wilson on the size of human microbiome, living in a symbiotic relationship with our microflora, and cancer prevention

Ethnicity in Afghanistan

Anthropologist Thomas Barfield on the role of ethnicity in state-building, nationalism and practical politics in modern Afghanistan

Vikings: Raiding and Trading in the Middle Ages

Professor of German Studies Rudolf Simek on the Vikings' nomadic life, their cultural achievements, and the end of the Viking Age

Developmental psychologist Uta Frith on autism, social interaction, and the difference between mentalizing and empathy

Skull Modularity in Evolutionary Morphology

Biologist Arkhat Abzhanov on morphological diversity in birds, Hawaiian honeycreepers and how data on skull modularity can help to treat craniofacial abnormalities in humans

Native American Architecture

MIT Prof. Mark Jarzombek on love to turquoise in Mayan culture, mobile architecture of Plains Indians, and getting away from the old view on ancient nations

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