2012 : WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP, ELEGANT, OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION?

Professor, Financial Engineering, Columbia University;...
Theoretical Physicist, Stanford; Father of Eternal Chaotic...
Father of Behavioral Economics; Director, Center for...
Software Engineer, Computer Scientist, Entrepreneur,...
CEO and Managing Director, Intellectual Ventures; Co-Author...
Neuroscientist; Professor & Director, Center for Brain...
Planetary Scientist; Cassini Imaging Team Leader; Director...
Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Biology School, University...
Cultural psychologist, writer, and consultant
Physicist, University of Vienna; Scientific Director,...
Planetary Scientist and Astrobiologist, NASA Jet Propulsion...
Blogging and RSS Software Pioneer; Editor, Scripting News...
Founder, The Whole Earth Catalog; Co-founder, The Well; Co-...
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of California
Associate Professor of Psychology, Princeton University
Journalist: Author, A Planet of Viruses; Science Ink:...
Co-Director of LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural...
Researcher, MIT, Mind Machine Project
Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin;...
Theoretical physicist
Professor of Theoretical Physics, Berkeley
Editor, The Feuilleton (Arts and Essays), of the German...
Colombian philosopher
Neuroscientist; Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral...
Psychologist; Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social...
Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience;...
Founder and CEO of O Reilly Media, Inc.
Psychologist, Cornell University
Social and Cognitive Scientist; CEU Budapest and CNRS Paris...
Neuroscientist, Baylor College of Medicine; Author,...
Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford...
Physicist, Atmospheric and Oceanic Scientist; Partner,...
Independent Researcher; Author, The Princeton Field Guide...
National Correspondent, Yahoo News; Ph.D., English, Harvard
Linguist; Cultural Commentator; Senior Fellow, Manhattan...
Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay, Talking...
Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre in the...
Biological Anthropologist, Rutgers University; Author, Why...
Consultant; Adaptive Optics and Adjunct Professor of...
Consultant, New Scientist; Founding Editor, CultureLab"
Academic; Newspaper Columnist; Vice-President, Wolfson...
Archaeologist, Journalist; Author, Artifacts
Writer, Artist, Designer; Author, Generation A
Professor & Director, Institute of Philosophy School of...
Associate Professor of Journalism, Annenberg School for...
Science Writer; Founding chairman of the International...
Professor of Biological Sciences, Physics, Astronomy,...
Biologist; Associate Professor, University of Minnesota,...
Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of...
Founder of field of Evolutionary Psychology; Co-director,...
Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology; Scientific...
Managing Director, Digital Science, Macmillan Publishers...
Information Scientist and Professor of Electrical...
Mathematician and Economist; Principal, Natron Group
Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology, Yale...
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth...
Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University; Director,...
President, Singularity Institute
Computer Scientist, UC Berkeley, School of Information;...
Theoretical Physicist; University of the Mediterraneum,...
Neuroscientist; Chairman, Board of Directors Human Science...
Professor of Geography, UCLA; Author, The World in 2050
Professor of Psychiatry, Member of the Duke Institute of...
Professor of Ethology, Cambridge University; Co-author,...
Senior Scientist, MacroCognition LLC; Author, Sources of...
Systems-Level Thinker; Futurist; Applied Genomics Expert;...
Physicist, Harvard University; Author, Warped Passages;...
Theoretical Physicist, Dartmouth College; Author, A Tear a...
Associate Professor of Biology in Harvard's Department...
Technology Forecaster; Consulting Associate Professor,...
Founder, TED Conference; eg Conference; TEDMED Conferences...
Philosophisches Seminar, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität...
Director, Cambridge Embodied Cognition and Emotion...
Visiting Professor, Center for Maritime System; Author, The...
Philosopher, Novelist; Author, Betraying Spinoza; 36...
Psychiatrist; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry,...
Professor of Mathematical Physics, Tulane University;...
Founding Editor, 3QuarksDaily.com
Software Pioneer; Philosopher; Author, "The History of...
Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Monkeyluv
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UC-Irvine; Novelist,...
Professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Author,...
Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University
Professor and Chairman of Computer Science, Brandeis...
Contributing Editor, Foreign Policy; Syndicated Columnist;...
Senior Astrophysicist, Observational Cosmology Laboratory,...
Professor of Psychology, Hope College; author Psychology,...
Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University...
Social Psychologist, University of British Columbia; Co-...
Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Professor, the...
Psychologist, MIT; Internet Culture Researcher; Author,...
Artist; Co-Founder, Edge.org; President, Brockman, Inc.;...
Writer and Television Producer; Author, Remembering Our...
Computer Scientist, Yale University; Chief Scientist,...
Physicist, MIT; Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics;...
Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Philosophical Baby
Professor of Psychiatry, UM Medical School; Professor of...
Co-founder, Pixar; Digital Imagery Pioneer & Visionary
Professor of Journalism, New York University; formerly...
Applied Mathematician; Senior Scholar, Research and Policy...
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of the...
Physicist, Director, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms;...
Professor of English at the University at Albany; Author,...
Senior Consultant (& former Ed-in-Chief &...
Psychologist; Assistant Professor of Marketing, Stern...
Psychologist, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge University...
Neuroscientist; Collège de France, Paris; Author, The...
Distinguished Professor of Physiology, Pharmacology, and...
Evolutionary Biologist; Emeritus Professor of the Public...
Neurologist & Cognitive Neuroscientist, The New School...
Associate Professor, Cognitive Science, University of...
Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Departments of...
Complex Network Scientist; Distinguished Professor and...
Psychologist, UPenn; Director, Penn Laboratory for...
Associate Professor of Marketing, Harvard Business School;...
Physician and Social Scientist, Harvard University;...
Professor of Medicine at UCSD
Practicing Neurologist, New York City; Playwright, Off-Off...
Classical Scholar, University Professor, Georgetown...
Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford;...
Director, External Affairs, Science Museum Group; Co-author...
TV documentary producer
Postdoc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics program at...
Psychologist; Director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior...
Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology, Duke University;...
Professor of Neurobiology and Psychiatry, UCSF; Author,...
Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Time Reborn
Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University;...
Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of...
Curator, Serpentine Gallery, London; Editor: A Brief...
Journalist; Editor, Nova 24, of Il Sole 24 Ore
Independent Investigator and Theoretician; Author, The...
Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Research Institute;...
Roboticist; Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus) ,...
Recipient, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2002;...
theoretical physicist; Professor, Department of Physics,...
Clinical Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, NYU...
Clinical Psychologist; Author, What's the Matter with...
Mathematician, Harvard; Co-author, The Shape of Inner Space
Publisher, Skeptic magazine; monthly columnist, Scientific...
Psychologist & Computer Scientist; Engines for...
Mathematical Physicist, Columbia University; Author, Not...
Executive Director, H-STAR Institute, Stanford University;...
Actor, Writer, Director; Host of PBS program The Human...
Psychologist; Director, Center for Advanced Study in the...
Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co...
Mathematician, Computer Scientist; CyberPunk Pioneer;...
Chemistry Blogger, Pipeline; Medicinal Chemist, Preclinical...
Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan; Author,...
English Department Washington & Jefferson College;...
Science Writer; Consultant; Lecturer, Copenhagen; Author,...
Editor at Large, Wired, Author-What Technology Wants
Computational Legal Scholar; Assistant Professor of...
professor emeritus, Stevens Institute of Technology; fromer...
Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, Visual Intelligence
Psychologist and Neuroscientist, University of Maryland;...
Dinosaur paleontologist and science communicator; Author,...
Research Associate & Lecturer, Harvard; Adjunct...
Professor, Harvard University, Director, Personal Genome...
Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Present Shock
Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard...
Philosopher and Cognitive Scientist, University of...
Professor of Geography, University of California Los...
Playwright & Director; Founder, The Ontological-...
Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering, NYU-Poly;...
Felix Bloch Professor in Theoretical Physics, Stanford;...
Former President, The Royal Society; Emeritus Professor of...
Founder and CEO of Projection Point; author, Risk...
Professor of History, Macquarie University, Sydney; Author...
Science writer; Author, Regenesis
Psychologist; President, The Cooper Union for the...
Theoretical Physicist, Caltech; Author, From Eternity to...
Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer. SENS Foundation;...
Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Imperial...
Psychologist; Director, Quality of Life Research Center,...
Emeritus School Professor, The London School of Economics...
Anthropologist, National Center for Scientific Research,...
Author, The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical...
Managing Director Excel Venture Management; Author, As the...
Philosopher and Researcher, C.N.R.S. Paris; Author, Text-E...
Physicist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Artist
Professor of Physics, Institute for Advanced Study; Author...
Psychologist; Author, Consciousness: An Introduction
Archaeologist, Professor of the Prehistory of Humanity,...
Expert, Financial Derivatives and Risk; Author, Extreme...
Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology;...
Science Historian; Author, Turing's Cathedral: The...
Physicist/Cosmologist, ASU; Author, A Universe from Nothing
Editor-in Chief, Nature
Author, The Shallows and The Big Switch
Psychologist, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Author...
Physicist, former President, Weizmann Institute of Science...
Social & Technology Network Topology Researcher;...