A Conversation with Mariette DiChristina

August 28, 1845 was the date of the first issue of the oldest continuously published magazine in the US. Take a guess. Harper's maybe?...

A conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson

• Astrology,
• Astronomy,
• Carl Sagan,
• Economy,
• Hayden Planetarium,
• NOVA Science Now,
• Newton,
• Pluto,
• education,
• science literacy

Neil deGrasse Tyson is the Frederick P. Rose Directorship of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. His research interests include the structure...

University of Cambridge

Nicola Clayton is a Professor of Comparative Cognition, Fellow of the Royal Society, Departmental Graduate Tutor and Chair of the Graduate...

Lord Martin Rees, Patricia Smith Churchland and AC Grayling

Lord Martin Rees is a Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics and Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He holds the title of...

Author

Lucy Hawking has worked extensively as a journalist for many British newspapers including The Daily Mail, The Telegraph and The Times. She has...

University of London

• Atheism,
• Faith,
• Public Policy,
• Rights,
• Vegetarianism,
• Violence,
• religion

AC Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at Birbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has...

University of California, San Diego and Duke University

Patricia Smith Churchland is UC President’s Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego, focuses on neuroethics and...

University of California, San Diego and University of Cambridge

Patricia Smith Churchland is UC President’s Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego, focuses on neuroethics and...

Vanderbilt University Law School

• Brain,
• Criminal Law,
• Death Penalty,
• Justice,
• Juvenile,
• Teenage,
• neuroscience

Terry Maroney is an Associate Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School. Her research interests include criminal law, juvenile justice,...

Vanderbilt University

• Economics,
• Law,
• Legal,
• Punishment,
• Reciprocation,
• Technology,
• Truth,
• cognition,
• fMRI,
• neuroscience

Owen Jones is a Professor of Law and Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University Law School. His current...

UC San Diego and Stanford University

• Evolution,
• Memory,
• Motor System,
• Perception,
• Repetition,
• Technology,
• cognition,
• neuroscience

Patricia Smith Churchland is UC President’s Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego, focuses on neuroethics and attempts to understand...

Harvard University and University of San Diego

• Courtroom,
• Emotion,
• Enhancement,
• Judge,
• Law,
• Lie Detection,
• Mercy,
• Sentencing,
• Technology,
• fMRI,
• neuroscience

Glenn Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Co-Director of the Petri-Flom center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and...

Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University and Georgetown University

• Conscience,
• DNA,
• Evidence,
• Legal System,
• Lie Detection,
• Medical,
• Uncertainty,
• fMRI

Jay Aronson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. His research is focues on the interactions of...

Vanderbilt University Law School

• Behavior,
• Brain Imaging,
• Cognitive Science,
• Humanity,
• Incarceration,
• Law,
• Lie Detection,
• MRI,
• Model,
• Steroids,
• fMRI,
• neuroscience,
• philosophy,
• politics

Owen Jones...

A conversation with Cynthia Breazeal

• Elder care,
• Interaction,
• Robot,
• education,
• physical therapy,
• social robotics

Cynthia Breazeal is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is founder and Director of...

A conversation with Richard Dawkins

• Bee,
• Evolution,
• Group Selection,
• Natural Selection,
• Subversion,
• Theology,
• genetics

*Apologies for the technical difficulties.  The camera was kinder to the Scripps Pier (which is rather lovely) than it was to Bingham or...

Vanderbilt University Law School

• Behavior,
• Brain,
• Criminal,
• Law,
• Trust,
• Violence,
• neuroscience,
• philosophy,
• religion

Nita...

Vanderbilt University Law School

• Intentionality,
• Locked in syndrome,
• philosophy,
• religion

Nita Farahany is a Professor of Law and Philosophy at Vanderbilt University Law School. She researches...

Harvard University

• Creation,
• Culture,
• Global Warming,
• Ignorance,
• Institution,
• Public Policy,
• politics,
• religion,
• science literacy

Steven Pinker is Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he...

A conversation with Pardis Sabeti

• Evolution,
• Lactose,
• Lassa,
• Natural Selection,
• Polymorphism,
• Women in Science,
• genetics,
• music

Pardis Sabeti is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at the FAS Center for Systems Biology at Harvard...

• Colin Blakemore

Colin Blakemore is a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. He also holds Professorship at the University of Warwick and the Duke...

University of Oregon

• Archaea,
• Conservation,
• Eukaryote,
• Genetic Variation,
• Metagenomics,
• Microbe,
• Pollution,
• Prokaryote

Jessica Green is an applied and theoretical ecologist and Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at the University of Oregon, Eugene. She...

KITP

• Asymptotic Freedom,
• Einstein,
• Elementary Particle,
• Forces,
• Nucleus,
• Particle Accelerator,
• Quantom Chromodynamics,
• Quarks,
• Theoretical Physics

David Gross is a particle physicist and string theorist and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Frank Wiczek and David Politzer...

Harvard University

Dan Schrag is a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment. He studies climate...

• Colin Blakemore

Colin Blakemore is a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. He also holds Professorship at the University of Warwick and the Duke...

A Conversation with Sean Carroll

• Boltzmann,
• Cosmology,
• Entropy,
• Multiverse,
• The Big Bang,
• Time,
• Universe

Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist and Senior Research Associate in physics at the California Institute of Technology. His research is...

President of the Royal Society

• Lord Martin Rees,
• President of Royal Society

Lord Martin Rees is a Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics and Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He holds the title of...

President of the Royal Society

• Lord Martin Rees,
• President of Royal Society

This is a continuation of the conversation with Lord Martin Rees, Science Studio Guest.

Lord Martin Rees is a Professor of Cosmology and...

• Lord Martin Rees,
• President of Royal Society

Lord Martin Rees five minute short

Terrence Sejnowski is an HHMI investigator, the Francis Crick Professor and Director of the Crick-Jacobs Center for Theoretical and...

Colin Blakemore is a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. He also holds Professorship at the University of Warwick and the Duke...

Part 3

Colin Blakemore is a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. He also holds Professorship at the University of Warwick and the Duke...

A conversation with Lord Julian Hunt

• Newton,
• Social Policy,
• cities,
• climate change,
• education,
• natural disaster,
• weather

Filmed at Calit2 Studios at UC San Diego. 

*Do not adjust your set! Due to technical difficulties some of the coloring is off in this...

A Conversation with Susan Greenfield

• Role Playing Games,
• Second Life,
• Social Networking,
• consciousness,
• twitter

Baroness Susan Greenfield is a British scientist, writer, broadcaster and a member of the House of Lords. She is known as a popularizer of...

a conversation with Horace Barlow

• Cambridge,
• Communication,
• Francis Crick,
• consciousness,
• social structure,
• vision

Horace Barlow is a British visual neuroscientist who has done much work towards understanding human vision and consciousness, beginning...

a conversation with Sam Harris

• Neuroloscience,
• Psychedelics,
• belief,
• philosophy,
• religion

Sam Harris is the author of The New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason which...

a conversation with philosopher Anthony Grayling

• Ethics,
• belief,
• philosophy,
• politics,
• religion,
• the good life

Anthony Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at Birbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College,...

• Evolution,
• Human Nature,
• Perception,
• cognition,
• language

Steven Pinker is Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he...

a conversation with Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman.

• Einstein,
• charm,
• education,
• politics

Leon M. Lederman is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois and Professor of Science at...

with chemist Peter Atkins

• Energy,
• Second Law of Thermodynamics,
• life,
• religion,
• science

Peter Atkins is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, Fellow of Lincoln College. He is the author of nearly 60 books, including...

with Nobel Laureate Sir Harold Kroto

• Carbon 60,
• chemistry,
• consciousness,
• discovery

Sir Harold Kroto, Chairman of the Board of the Vega Science Trust, a UK educational charity, in 1996 shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with...

with philosopher Daniel Dennett

• Enlightenment,
• education,
• meaning of life,
• philosophy,
• religion

Daniel C. Dennett, the author of Breaking the Spell; Freedom Evolves; and Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, is University...

with Nobel Laureate James D. Watson

• Behavior,
• Communication,
• Culture,
• How to,
• Physics,
• Strategy,
• education,
• genetics,
• religion

James D. Watson is a molecular biologist celebrated for his discovery of the structure of DNA with Francis Crick for which he received the Nobel...

with neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinás

• Cell function,
• Central Nervous System,
• Evolution,
• Intentionality,
• neuroscience,
• physiology

Rodolfo Llinás, a founding father of modern brain science, is the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman of the...

with Nobel Laureate Richard Axel

• Evolution,
• Memory,
• Perception,
• Smell,
• genetics,
• language,
• neuroscience

Richard Axel is a neuroscientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004 with Linda Buck for his work on the olfactory system....

with anthropologist Helen Fisher

• Culture,
• Evolution,
• Personality,
• Sexuality,
• anthropology,
• gender,
• love

Helen Fisher is an anthropologist who studies the evolution of love, sex, marriage and gender differences in humans. She is a Research Professor...

with neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran

• India,
• consciousness,
• discovery,
• education,
• mathematics,
• neuroscience

V.S. Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Professor with the Psychology Department and the Neurosciences Program at...

with neurophilosophers Pat and Paul Churchland

• Aristotle,
• Early life,
• Plato,
• education,
• neuroscience,
• philosophy

Patricia Smith Churchland, UC President’s Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego, focuses on neuroethics and attempts to understand choice,...

with mathematician Jack Cowan

• cybernetics,
• hallucinations,
• mathematics,
• mind,
• neuroscience

Jack Cowan is Professor of Mathematics and Neurology at The University of Chicago. His research is concerned with understanding how circuits in...