TIMOTHY
TAYLOR
Archeologist,
University of Bradford; Author The
Buried Soul
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DANIEL
GILBERT
Psychologist , Harvard University; Director,
Harvard’s Hedonic Psychology Laboratory,
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Author Stumbling on Happiness
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JOSHUA
GREENE
Cognitive Neuroscientist and Philosopher,
Harvard University
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NICHOLAS
HUMPHREY
School
Professor, London School of Economics; Professor
of Psychology, School for Social Research; Author, The Color Red
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PAUL
DAVIES
Physicist, Arizona State University;
Author, The Cosmic Jackpot
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RAY
KURZWEIL
Inventor and Technologist; Author, The
Singularity Is Near
Ray Kurzweil
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ALISON
GOPNIK
Psychologist, UC-Berkeley; Coauthor, The Scientist
In the Crib
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CHRIS
DIBONA
Open Source Programs Manager, Google
Inc.; Editor, Open Sources: Voices
From the Open Source Software Revolution
and Open Sources 2.0
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BART
KOSKO
Information Scientist, USC; Author, Noise
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TOR
NØRRETRANDERS
Science Writer; Consultant; Lecturer,
Copenhagen; Author, The Generous Man
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MARK
PAGEL
Evolutionary Biologist, Reading University,
England
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GEORGE
SMOOT
Cosmologist, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory; Recipient, The Nobel Prize
For Physics 2006; Coauthor, Wrinkles
in Time
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J.
DOYNE FARMER
Physicist, Santa Fe Institute; Cofounder,
Prediction Company
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BENOIT
MANDELBROT
Mathematician, Yale University; Author, The
Fractal Geometry of Nature
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SIMON
BARON-COHEN
Psychologist, Autism Research Centre,
Cambridge University; Author, The
Essential Difference
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ANTON
ZEILINGER
University of Vienna and Scientific
Director, Institute of Quantum Optics and
Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of
Sciences
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ALUN
ANDERSON
Senior Consultant (and Former Editor-In-Chief
and Publishing Director), New Scientist
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JONATHAN
HAIDT
Psychologist, University of Virginia;
Author, The Happiness Hypothesis
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RODNEY
A. BROOKS
Director, MIT Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL);
Chief Technical Officer of iRobot Corporation;
Author, Flesh and Machines
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STEVE
GIDDINGS
Theoretical Physicist, University of
California, Santa Barbara
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GINO
SEGRE
Physicist, University of Pennsylvania;
Author, Faust In Copenhagen: A Struggle
for the Soul of Physics
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MARVIN
MINSKY
Computer Scientist; 1st Generation
Artificial Intelligence Pioneer, MIT; Author, The
Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking,
Artificial Intelligence, and the Future
of the Human Mind
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NASSIM
TALEB
Epistemologist of Randomness and Applied
Statistician; Author, The Black Swan
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GEORGE
CHURCH
Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical
School; Director, Center for Computational
Genetics
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KEITH
DEVLIN
Mathematician, Stanford University, Executive
Director of the Center for the Study of Language
and Information
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PAUL
BLOOM
Psychologist, Yale University; Author, Descartes'
Baby
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SAMUEL
BARONDES
Neurobiologist and Psychiatrist, University
of California San Francisco; Author, Better
Than Prozac
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RUDY
RUCKER
Mathematician, Computer Scientist;
CyberPunk Pioneer; Novelist; Author, Lifebox,
the Seashell, and the Soul
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PZ
MYERS
Biologist, University of Minnesota,
Morris
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DAN
SPERBER
Social and cognitive scientist; Directeur
de Recherche, CNRS, Paris; Author, Rethinking
Symbolism
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CARLO
ROVELLI
Physicist, Universite' de la Mediterrane'
(Marseille, France); Author, What
is time? What is Space?
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MARCELO
GLEISER
Physicist, Dartmouth College; Author, The
Prophet and the Astronomer
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DOUG
RUSHKOFF
Media Analyst; Documentary Writer;
Author, Get Back in the Box : Innovation
from the Inside Out
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ERNST
PÖPPEL
Neuroscientist, Chairman, Board of
Directors, Human Science Center and Department
of Medical Psychology, Munich University,
Germany; Author, Mindworks
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MAX
TEGMARK
Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision
Cosmology
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SUSAN
BLACKMORE
Psychologist and Skeptic; Author, Consciousness:
An Introduction
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GEOFFREY
MILLER
Evolutionary Psychologist, University
of New Mexico; Author, The Mating
Mind
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RICHARD
DAWKINS
Evolutionary Biologist, Charles Simonyi
Professor For The Understanding Of Science,
Oxford University; Author, The God
Delusion
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MICHAEL
SHERMER
Publisher of Skeptic magazine, monthly
columnist for Scientific American; Author, Why
Darwin Matters
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SCOTT
ATRAN
Anthropologist,
University of Michigan; Author, In Gods
We Trust
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DIMITAR
D. SASSELOV
Astronomer, Harvard University; Director,
Harvard Origins of Life Initiative
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JUDITH
RICH HARRIS
Independent Investigator and Theoretician;
Author, No Two Alike: Human Nature
and Human Individuality
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FREEMAN
DYSON
Physicist, Institute of Advanced Study,
Author, A Many-Colored Glass
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JOHN
HORGAN
Director, the Center for Science Writings,
Stevens Institute of Technology; Author, Rational
Mysticism
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MIHALY
CSIKSZENTMIHALYI
Psychologist; Director, Quality of
Life Research Center, Claremont Graduate
University; Author, Flow
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HOWARD
GARDNER
Psychologist, Harvard University; Author, Five
Minds for the Future
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DAVID
MYERS
Social Psychologist, Hope College (Michigan);
Author, A Quiet World: Living with
Hearing Loss
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DANIEL
L. EVERETT
Researcher of Pirahã Culture;
Chair of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures,
Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology,
Illinois State University
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LINDA
STONE
Former VP, Microsoft & Co-Founder & Director,
Microsoft's Virtual Worlds Group/Social
Computing Group
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JOHN
GOTTMAN
Psychologist; Founder of Gottman Institute;
Author (with Julie Gottman), And Baby
Makes Three
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IRENE
PEPPERBERG
Research Associate, Psychology, Harvard
University; Author, The Alex Studies
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DAVID
GELERNTER
Computer Scientist, Yale University;
Chief Scientist, Mirror Worlds Technologies;
Author, Drawing Life
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MARC
D. HAUSER
Psychologist and Biologist, Harvard
University; Author, Moral Minds
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STEVEN
PINKER
Psychologist, Harvard University; Author, The
Stuff of Thought
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MATT
RIDLEY
Science Writer; Founding chairman of
the International Centre for Life; Author, Francis
Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code
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NEIL
SHUBIN
Paleontologist, University of Chicago;
Associate Dean, University of Chicago Medical
School
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DAVID
DEUTSCH
Quantum physicist, Oxford University;
Author, The Fabric of Reality
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BRIAN
ENO
Artist; Composer; Recording Producer:
U2, Talking Heads, Paul Simon; Recording
Artist
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REM
KOOLHAAS
Architect, Graduate School of Design,
Harvard University
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