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

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

Response Andrei Linde Theoretical Physicist, Stanford; Father of Eternal Chaotic...	Response Richard H. Thaler Father of Behavioral Economics; Recipient, 2017 Nobel...
Response Charles Simonyi Software Engineer, Computer Scientist, Entrepreneur,...	Response Nathan Myhrvold CEO and Managing Director, Intellectual Ventures; Co-Author...
Response Vilayanur Ramachandran Neuroscientist; Professor & Director, Center for Brain...	Response David Pizarro Associate Professor of Psychology, Cornell University
Response Helena Cronin Co-director of LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural...	Response Dan Sperber Social and Cognitive Scientist; CEU Budapest and CNRS Paris...
Response Marco Iacoboni Neuroscientist; Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral...	Response Hazel Rose Markus Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford...
Response Antony Garrett Lisi Theoretical physicist	Response Carolyn Porco Planetary Scientist; Cassini Imaging Team Leader; Director...
Response Tim O'Reilly Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc.; Author, WTF?:...	Response Alana Conner Cultural psychologist, writer, and consultant
Response Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran Philosopher; Director, Scientific Vortex, Inc.	Response Anton Zeilinger Nobel laureate (2022 - Physics); Physicist, University of...
Response David M. Eagleman Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Incognito, Sum...	Response Dave Winer Blogging and RSS Software Pioneer; Editor, Scripting News...
Response Brian Knutson Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience; Stanford...	Response Stewart Brand Founder, the Whole Earth Catalog; Co-founder, The Well; Co-...
Response Seirian Sumner Reader, Behavioral Ecology, University College London	Response Emily Pronin Associate Professor of Psychology, Princeton University
Response David M. Buss Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin;...	Response Kevin P. Hand Deputy Chief Scientist for Solar System Exploration, NASA...
Response David Dalrymple Research affiliate, MIT Media Lab	Response Andrian Kreye Editor-at-large of the German Daily Newspaper, Sueddeutsche...
Response Tania Lombrozo Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley	Response Mahzarin Banaji Department Chair; Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social...
Response Raphael Bousso Professor, Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, UC...	Response Bart Kosko Information Scientist and Professor of Electrical...
Response Virginia Heffernan Columnist, The New York Times Magazine; Editorial Director...	Response A. C. Grayling Master of the New College of the Humanities; Supernumerary...
Response Christine Finn Archaeologist; Journalist; Author, Artifacts, Past Poetic	Response Stephon H. Alexander Professor of Physics at Brown University; Author, The Jazz...
Response Helen Fisher Biological Anthropologist, Rutgers University; Author, Why...	Response Timo Hannay Founding Managing Director, SchoolDash; Co-organizer, Sci...
Response Andrew Lih Associate Professor of Journalism, American University;...	Response Gregory Paul Independent Researcher; Author, The Princeton Field Guide...
Response John Naughton Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research in the Arts,...	Response Paul Bloom Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and...
Response P Z Myers Biologist; Associate Professor, University of Minnesota,...	Response Bruce Hood Chair of Developmental Psychology in Society, University of...
Response Barry C. Smith Professor & Director, Institute of Philosophy School of...	Response Giulio Boccaletti Chief Strategy Officer of The Nature Conservancy; Author,...
Response Max Tegmark Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology; Scientific...	Response Amanda Gefter Science writer; Author, Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn
Response Michael Vassar Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, MetaMed Research	Response Stuart A. Kauffman Professor of Biological Sciences, Physics, Astronomy,...
Response Brian Eno Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay, Talking...	Response Eric R. Weinstein Mathematician and Economist; Managing Director of Thiel...
Response Douglas Coupland Writer, Artist, Designer; Author; Google Artist in Residence	Response John McWhorter Professor of Linguistics and Western Civilization, Columbia...
Response John Tooby Founder of field of Evolutionary Psychology; Co-director,...	Response Dimitar D. Sasselov Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University; Director,...
Response Matt Ridley Science Writer; Fellow, Royal Society of Literature and the...	Response Gregory Cochran Consultant; Adaptive Optics and Adjunct Professor of...
Response Marcelo Gleiser Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy, Dartmouth College...	Response Paul Saffo Technology Forecaster; Consulting Associate Professor,...
Response Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Philosopher, Novelist; Recipient, 2014 National Humanities...	Response Patrick Bateson* Professor of Ethology, Cambridge University; Co-author,...
Response Seth Lloyd Professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Author,...	Response Richard Saul Wurman Founder, TED Conference; EG Conference; TEDMED Conferences...
Response Simone Schnall Director, Cambridge Embodied Cognition and Emotion...	Evolutionary Stable Strategies S. Abbas Raza Founding Editor, 3QuarksDaily.com
Response John C. Mather Nobel Prize in Physics; Senior Astrophysicist,...	Response Bruce Parker Visiting Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology; Author...
Response Joel Gold Psychiatrist; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry,...	Response Gregory Benford Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UC-Irvine;...
Response Laurence C. Smith Professor of Environmental Studies, Brown University;...	Response Frank Tipler Professor of Mathematical Physics, Tulane University;...
Response Kai Krause Software Pioneer; Philosopher; Author, A Realtime...	Response Evgeny Morozov Contributing Editor, Foreign Policy; Syndicated Columnist;...
Response Melanie Swan Philosophy and Economic Theory, the New School for Social...	Response Robert Sapolsky Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Behave
Response Jon Kleinberg Tisch University Professor of Computer Science, Cornell...	Response Ernst Pöppel Head of Research Group Systems, Neuroscience and Cognitive...
Response David Haig George Putnam Professor of Biology, Harvard University;...	Response Jordan Pollack Professor and Chairman of Computer Science, Brandeis...
Response Marti Hearst Computer Scientist, UC Berkeley, School of Information;...	Response Gary Klein Senior Scientist, MacroCognition LLC; Author, Seeing What...
Response Lisa Randall Physicist, Harvard University; Author, Dark Matter and the...	Response Thomas Metzinger Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg-...
Response Carlo Rovelli Theoretical Physicist; Aix-Marseille University, in the...	Response P. Murali Doraiswamy Professor of Psychiatry, Translational Neuroscience...
Response Thomas A. Bass Professor of English and Journalism, State University of...	Response Eric Topol Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Translational Science...
Response Luca De Biase Journalist; Editor, Nova 24, of Il Sole 24 Ore	Response Beatrice Golomb Professor of Medicine at UCSD
Response Alison Gopnik Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Gardener and the...	Response Hans Ulrich Obrist Curator, Serpentine Gallery, London; Editor: A Brief...
Response Samuel Barondes Professor of Neurobiology and Psychiatry, UCSF; Author,...	Response Marcel Kinsbourne Neurologist and Cognitive Neuroscientist, The New School;...
Response Elizabeth Dunn Social Psychologist, University of British Columbia; Co-...	Response David G. Myers Professor of Psychology, Hope College; Co-author,...
Response Hugo Mercier Cognitive Scientist, French National Center for Scientific...	Response Charles Seife Professor of Journalism, New York University; Former...
Response Neil Gershenfeld Physicist, Director, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms;...	Response Steve Giddings Theoretical Physicist; Professor, Department of Physics,...
Response Judith Rich Harris Independent Investigator and Theoretician; Author, The...	Response Nicholas A. Christakis Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, Yale...
Response Frank Wilczek Physicist, MIT; Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics;...	Response Karl Sabbagh Producer; Founder, Managing Director, Skyscraper...
Response Gino Segre Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of...	Response Simon Baron-Cohen Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of...
Response Richard Dawkins Evolutionary Biologist; Emeritus Professor of the Public...	Response Katinka Matson Artist, Literary Agent; Co-Founder, Edge.org; President,...
Response Timothy D. Wilson Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University...	Response Christopher Sykes TV documentary producer
Response Adam Alter Psychologist; Assistant Professor of Marketing, Stern...	Response Gerald Holton Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of the...
Response Eric R. Kandel Recipient, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2002;...	Response Albert-lászló Barabási Complex Network Scientist; Distinguished Professor and...
Response Michael I. Norton Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration,...	Response Alvy Ray Smith Co-founder, Pixar; Digital Imagery Pioneer & Visionary
Response David Gelernter Computer Scientist, Yale University; Chief Scientist,...	Response Philip Zimbardo Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University;...
Response Paul J. Steinhardt Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Departments of...	Response Todd C. Sacktor Distinguished Professor of Physiology, Pharmacology, and...
Response Sherry Turkle Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of...	Response Roger Highfield Director, External Affairs, Science Museum Group; Co-author...
Response James J. O'Donnell Classics Scholar, University Librarian, ASU; Author, Pagans	Response Alun Anderson Senior Consultant (and former Editor-in-Chief and...
Response Samuel Arbesman Complexity Scientist; Scientist in Residence at Lux Capital...	Response Rodney A. Brooks Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus); Former Director...
Response Gerald Smallberg Practicing Neurologist, New York City; Playwright, Off-Off...	Response Robert Kurzban Psychologist, UPenn; Director, Penn Laboratory for...
Response Randolph Nesse Research Professor of Life Sciences, Director (2014-2019),...	Response Lee Smolin Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Einstein's...
Response Stuart Pimm Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology, Duke University;...	Response Benjamin K. Bergen Associate Professor, Cognitive Science, University of...
Response Stanislas Dehaene Neuroscientist; Collège de France, Paris; Author, How We...	Response Terrence J. Sejnowski Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Professor, the...
Response Gerd Gigerenzer Psychologist; Director, Harding Center for Risk Literacy,...	Response Peter Atkins Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford;...
Response Victoria Stodden Associate Professor of Information Sciences, University of...	Response Robert Provine Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, Baltimore...
Response George Dyson Science Historian; Author, Analogia	Response Nicholas G. Carr Author, Utopia is Creepy
Response Martin Rees Former President, The Royal Society; Emeritus Professor of...	Response Jamshed Bharucha Psychologist; President Emeritus, Cooper Union
Response Stephen M. Kosslyn Founding Dean, Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate...	Response Derek Lowe Chemistry Blogger, Pipeline; Medicinal Chemist, Preclinical...
Response Steven Pinker Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology;...	Response Emanuel Derman Professor, Financial Engineering, Columbia University;...
Response Douglas Rushkoff Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Throwing Rocks...	Response Jared Diamond Professor of Geography, University of California Los...
Response Jennifer Jacquet Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, NYU; Author,...	Response Michael Shermer Publisher, Skeptic magazine; Monthly Columnist, Scientific...
Response Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Psychologist; Director, Quality of Life Research Center,...	Response Juan Enriquez Managing Director, Excel Venture Management; Co-author (...
Response Kevin Kelly Senior Maverick, Wired; Author, What Technology Wants and...	Response Donald D. Hoffman Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, The Case Against...
Response Clay Shirky Social & Technology Network Topology Researcher;...	Response Leonard Susskind Felix Bloch Professor in Theoretical Physics, Stanford;...
Response Ed Regis Science writer; Author, Monsters	Response Alan Alda Actor; Writer; Director; Host, PBS program Brains on Trial...
Response Rudy Rucker Mathematician; Computer Scientist; Cyberpunk Pioneer;...	Response Freeman Dyson Physicist, Institute of Advanced Study; Author, Disturbing...
Response Satyajit Das Former Financier; Author, Age of Stagnation	Response George Church Professor, Harvard University; Director, Personal Genome...
Response Andy Clark Professor of Cognitive Philosophy, Department of Philosophy...	Response Keith Devlin Mathematician; Executive Director, H-STAR Institute,...
Response Armand Marie Leroi Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Imperial...	Response Clifford Pickover Author, The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical...
Response Tor Nørretranders Writer; Speaker; Thinker, Copenhagen, Denmark	Response Jeremy Bernstein Professor Emeritus, Stevens Institute of Technology; Former...
Response Philip Campbell Editor-in-Chief of Nature since 1995; Beginning summer 2018...	Response Haim Harari Physicist, former President, Weizmann Institute of Science...
Response Nassim Nicholas Taleb Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering, New York...	Response David Christian Director, Big History Institute and Distinguished Professor...
Response Jonathan Gottschall Distinguished Research Fellow, English Department,...	Response James Croak Artist
Response Timothy Taylor Jan Eisner Professor of Archaeology, Comenius University in...	Response Irene Pepperberg Research Associate & Lecturer, Harvard; Author, Alex...
Response Howard Gardner Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard...	Response Shing-Tung Yau Mathematician, Harvard; Co-author, The Shape of Inner Space
Response Peter Woit Mathematical Physicist, Columbia University; Author, Not...	Response Aubrey de Grey Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation;...
Response Scott Atran Anthropologist; Emeritus Research Director, Centre National...	Response Scott Sampson President & CEO, Science World British Columbia;...
Response Lawrence M. Krauss Theoretical Physicist; Foundation Professor, School of...	Response Arnold Trehub Psychologist, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Author...
Response Sean Carroll Theoretical Physicist, Caltech; Author, Something Deeply...	Response Dylan Evans Founder and CEO of Projection Point; Author, The Utopia...
Response Daniel C. Dennett Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co...	Response Richard Nisbett Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor of...
Response Nigel Goldenfeld Physicist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Response Susan Blackmore Psychologist; Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth;...
Response Richard Foreman Playwright & Director; Founder, The Ontological-...	Response Robin S. Rosenberg Clinical Psychologist; Author, What's the Matter with...
Response Roger Schank CEO, Socratic Arts Inc.; John Evans Professor Emeritus of...	Response Gloria Origgi Philosopher and Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche...
Response Nicholas Humphrey Emeritus Professor of Psychology, London School of...