Digital Anthropology
Daniel Miller on visual communication, cultural differences in digital behavior, and why people prefer one soc...
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Impact
August 24, 2017
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Biotech
August 22, 2017
Single-Particle Electron Microscopy
Richard Henderson on the advantages of cryomicroscopy, factors limiting new discoveries, and the history of mo...
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economics
August 19, 2017
Price Theory
Economist David Friedman on the difference between a market and a political system, price formation, and decen...
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biology
August 16, 2017
Retroviruses in Gene Therapy
Molecular biologist Greg Towers on the great scientific challenges, the dangers of gene therapy, and the way i...
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astronomy
August 15, 2017
Detection of Exoplanets
Astrophysicist Didier Queloz on rocky planets, the Kepler space mission, and why it is so difficult to get a p...
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biology
August 11, 2017
Speech Processing
Neuroscientist Sophie Scott on humans’ ability to distinguish sounds, bilingualism, and the Japanese language
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biology
August 10, 2017
Dysconnection Hypothesis of Schizophrenia
Neuroscientist Karl Friston on split personality, the nature of mental disorders, and the possibility of a the...
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Impact
August 8, 2017
Greek and Roman Meteorology
Historian and Philosopher of Science Liba Taub on the relations between myths and science, the ancient attempt...
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biology
August 2, 2017
Huntington’s Disease
Molecular Neurogeneticist David Rubinsztein on the Kennedy disease, CAG repeats, and autophagy
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British Scientists
July 31, 2017
Spacetime Transformation Optics
Physicist Martin McCall on a spatial cloak, potentialities of optical processing, and manipulating light
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British Scientists
July 28, 2017
Cognitive Variability
Neuroscientist Michael Thomas on differences between children, computational modeling, and the new skills that...
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history
July 27, 2017
The Conservatism of Edmund Burke
Historian Richard Bourke on the French Revolution, Marxism-Leninism, and the defense of liberty
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