Driver and Passenger Mutation in Cancer
Biophysicist Leonid Mirny on mutation balance, vulnerability of cancer, and its new explanatory paradigm
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biology
June 29, 2015
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philosophy
June 27, 2015
Sociology of Religion
Sociologist Peter Kivisto on the attitude to religion, post-secularists and ‘The Secular age’
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medicine
June 26, 2015
Quitting visual search
Radiologist Jeremy M. Wolfe on search strategies in our everyday life, amnesiac search, and false alarms at me...
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history
June 25, 2015
Microhistory
Historian Carlo Ginzburg on the value of an individual, geopolitical traditions in history and globalization
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biology
June 24, 2015
Double Lifespan
Geneticist David Sinclair on a long-liver nematode worm, living organisms' recovery systems and a special diet...
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biology
June 23, 2015
Evolution of Beak Shapes in Darwin’s Finches
Biologist Arkhat Abzhanov on morphological changes among birds, transgenes, and laboratory experiments on chic...
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psychology
June 22, 2015
Cognitive Advantages of Bilingualism
Harvard Prof. Maria Polinsky on introducing two languages, the importance of literacy and advantages of biling...
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politics
June 19, 2015
Hidden Costs of Dictatorship
Stanford Professor Mark Harrison on Soviet Russia, KGB and authoritarian regimes' secrecy
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quantum mechanics
June 18, 2015
Essence of Quantum Computation
Physicist Seth Lloyd on quantum mechanics, classical vs quantum computers and the “universal digital computati...
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biology
June 17, 2015
Synapse Elimination at the Developing Neuromuscula...
Harvard Professor Jeff Lichtman on revolution of fluorescent proteins, brainbow as a technique in connectonomi...
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astronomy
June 16, 2015
A Closer Look at Black Holes
Harvard Prof. Avi Loeb on black holes, Milky Way and new galaxies
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economics
June 15, 2015
Understanding Economic Complexity
MIT Assistant Prof. Cesar Hidalgo on economic complexity, crystallizing the imagination and its role in prosp...
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