The Rightful Place celebrates an historical event and an historic opportunity.

The historical event is the foundation 350 years ago (in November 1660) of the Royal Society of London, the world's oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.

The historic opportunity is the realization of the pledge by President Obama in...

A conversation between Roger Bingham and Richard Dawkins, AC Grayling, Brian Greene, Lawrence Krauss and Steven Pinker

• Merchants of Light,
• The Rightful Place

Books by Steven Pinker: The Stuff of Thought, 2008 The Language Instinct, 2007 The Blank Slate, 2003 ...

Santa Fe Institute

• Art,
• Center,
• Humanities,
• Ideology,
• Leonardo da Vinci,
• Society,
• The Rightful Place

David Krakauer is the Chair of the Faculty and Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His research is focused on the evolutionary history of...

President of the Royal Society

• Advice,
• Culture,
• Energy,
• Global Warming,
• Globalization,
• The Rightful Place,
• politics

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

Harvard University

• Communication,
• Constituency,
• Global Warming,
• Journalist,
• Knowledge,
• Nature,
• Reality,
• The Rightful Place,
• Truth,
• politics

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

California Institute of Technology

• Art,
• Communication,
• Curiosity,
• Technology,
• The Rightful Place,
• Theoretical Cosmology

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

Hayden Planetarium

• Economic,
• Interpretation,
• Judge,
• Society,
• The Rightful Place,
• Think,
• 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 of...

Vanderbilt University Law School

• Answers,
• Behavior,
• Community,
• Essential,
• Government,
• Nature,
• Progression,
• Society,
• The Rightful Place,
• discovery

Nita Farahany is a Professor of Law and Philosophy at Vanderbilt University Law School. She researches and writes about the intersection of criminal...

• Civil Rights,
• Learning,
• Public Policy,
• Public School,
• Sports,
• Technology,
• The Rightful Place,
• Timing,
• education,
• politics

Brains R Us brings together researchers, educators, policymakers, parents, and students in a town hall forum to discuss the state of the science of...

UC San Diego and Stanford University

• Court,
• Galileo,
• Teaching,
• The Rightful Place,
• Truth,
• life

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

Vanderbilt University Law School

• Biology,
• Health care,
• Legal Analysis,
• Plan,
• Prediction,
• Relationship,
• The Rightful Place,
• politics

Owen Jones is a Professor of Law and Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University Law School. His current research is focused on law and behavioral...

Harvard University

• The Rightful Place

Susan Carey is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Her research is focused on child development and language...

Stanford University

• The Rightful Place

Lera Boroditsky is an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. Her research is focused on...