2013 : WHAT SHOULD WE BE WORRIED ABOUT?

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2013 : WHAT SHOULD WE BE WORRIED ABOUT?

Chinese Eugenics Geoffrey Miller Evolutionary psychologist, NYU Stern Business School and...	That We Won't Make Use Of The Error Catastrophe Threshold William McEwan Postdoctoral researcher, MRC Laboratory of Molecular...
A Fearful Asymmetry: The Worrying World Of A Would-Be 'Science' Helena Cronin Co-Director of LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural...	Misplaced Worries Dan Sperber Social and Cognitive Scientist; CEU Budapest and CNRS Paris...
We Are In Denial About Catastrophic Risks Martin Rees Former President, The Royal Society; Emeritus Professor of...	The Disconnect Barbara Strauch Science Editor, The New York Times; Author, The Secret Life...
Unfriendly Physics, Monsters From The Id, And Self-Organizing Collective Delusions John Tooby Founder of field of Evolutionary Psychology; Co-director,...	Worry About Internet Drivel David Gelernter Computer Scientist, Yale University; Chief Scientist,...
We Don't Do Politics Brian Eno Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay, Talking...	The Black Hole Of Finance Seth Lloyd Professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Author,...
The Opinions Of Search Engines W. Daniel Hillis Physicist, Computer Scientist, Chairman of Applied Minds,...	The Mating Wars David M. Buss Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin;...
Computer-Generated Fascism David Bodanis Writer; Futurist; Author, Passionate Minds	Data Disenfranchisement David Rowan Editor, WIRED UK
The Patience Deficit Nicholas G. Carr Author, The Shallows and The Glass Cage	The Underpopulation Bomb Kevin Kelly Senior Maverick, Wired, Author, Cool Tools; What Technology...
Big Experiments Won't Happen Lisa Randall Physicist, Harvard University; Author, Warped Passages;...	"Smart" Evgeny Morozov Contributing Editor, Foreign Policy; Syndicated Columnist;...
What—Me Worry? J. Craig Venter A leading scientist of the 21st century for Genomic...	The Promise Of Catharsis Andrian Kreye Editor, The Feuilleton (Arts and Essays), of the German...
I've Given Up Asking Questions Terry Gilliam Screenwriter, Film director, Animator, Actor; Member, Monty...	The Anthropocebo Effect Jennifer Jacquet Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, NYU;...
The Relative Obscurity Of The Writings Of Édouard Glissant Hans Ulrich Obrist Curator, Serpentine Gallery, London; Editor: A Brief...	The Danger Of Inadvertently Praising Zygomatic Arches Robert Sapolsky Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Monkeyluv
The Loss Of Death Kate Jeffery Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Head, Dept. of...	One Universe Lawrence M. Krauss Physicist; Cosmologist, ASU; Author, A Universe from Nothing
The Rise Of Anti-Intellectualism And The End Of Progress Tim O'Reilly Founder and CEO of O Reilly Media, Inc.	Applying Classic Science To Understand "Modern States" Shaped By Crime Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran Philosopher; Director, Scientific Vortex, Inc
Lamplight Probabilities Bart Kosko Information Scientist and Professor of Electrical...	What Is Conscious? Timo Hannay Managing Director, Digital Science, Macmillan Publishers;...
Men Helen Fisher Biological Anthropologist, Rutgers University; Author, Why...	Science By (Social) Media Michael I. Norton Associate Professor of Marketing, Harvard Business School;...
Unmitigated Arrogance Jessica L. Tracy Associate Professor of Psychology, University of British...	Technology May Endanger Democracy Haim Harari Physicist, former President, Weizmann Institute of Science...
"The Singularity": There's No There There Bruce Sterling Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America	MADness Vernor Vinge Mathematician; Computer Scientist; Hugo Award-winning...
Blown Opportunities Frank Wilczek Physicist, MIT; Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics;...	The Power Of Bad Incentives Sam Harris Neuroscientist; Co-founder and Chairman, Project Reason;...
Quantum Mechanics Lee Smolin Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Time Reborn	Are We Homogenizing The Global View Of A Normal Mind? P. Murali Doraiswamy Professor, Translational Neuroscience Division, School of...
Science Publishing Marco Iacoboni Neuroscientist; Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral...	Is The New Public Sphere... Public? Andrew Lih Associate Professor of Journalism, American University;...
Excellence Eric R. Weinstein Mathematician and Economist; Managing Director of Thiel...	World As We Know It Richard Foreman Playwright & Director; Founder, The Ontological-...
Stress Arianna Huffington Chair, President, Editor-In-Chief, The Huffington Post...	Science Has Not Brought Us Closer To Understanding Cancer Xeni Jardin Tech Culture Journalist; Partner, Contributor, Co-editor,...
Losing Touch Christine Finn Archaeologist, Journalist; Author, Artifacts	The Human-Nature Divide Scott Sampson Vice President of Research & Collections, Denver Museum...
Are We Becoming Too Connected? Gino Segre Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of...	Putting Our Anxieties To Work Joseph LeDoux Neuroscientist, New York University; Author, Anxious
Authoritarian Submission Michael Vassar Founder and Chief Science Officer, BayesCraft	Incompetent Systems John Naughton Vice-President, Wolfson College; Author, From Gutenberg to...
Too Much Coupling Steven Strogatz Professor of Applied Mathematics, Cornell University;...	Power And The Internet Bruce Schneier Security Technologist; Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet...
Close To The Edge Kai Krause Software Pioneer; Philosopher; Author, "A Realtime...	The End Of Fundamental Science? Mario Livio Astrophysicist, Space Telescope Science Institute; Author,...
The Paradox Of Material Progress Rolf Dobelli Founder, Zurich Minds; Journalist; Author, The Art of...	The Fragility Of Complex Systems Randolph Nesse Professor of Life Sciences, Director, Center for Evolution...
Rats In A Spherical Trap Gregory Benford Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UC-Irvine;...	Close Observation And Description Ursula Martin Professor of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Global Greying David Berreby Journalist; Author, Us and Them	The Fourth Culture Bruce Parker Visiting Professor, Center for Maritime System; Author, The...
The Coming Fight Between Engineers And Druids Paul Saffo Technology Forecaster; Consulting Associate Professor,...	Impact Bruce Hood Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre in the...
The Complex, Consequential, Not-So-Easy Decisions About Our Water Resources Giulio Boccaletti Physicist; Atmospheric and Oceanic Scientist, Nature...	Children Of Newton And Modernity Stuart A. Kauffman Professor of Biological Sciences, Physics, Astronomy,...
The Teenage Brain Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Royal Society University Research Fellow and Professor of...	Augmented Reality William Poundstone Journalist; Author, Are Your Smart Enough To Work At Google...
Where Did You Get That Fact? Victoria Stodden Computational Legal Scholar; Assistant Professor of...	Social Media: The More Together, The More Alone Marcel Kinsbourne Neurologist & Cognitive Neuroscientist, The New School...
Is Idiocracy Looming? Douglas T. Kenrick Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University; Author,...	The Disconnect Between News And Understanding Gavin Schmidt Climatologist; Director, NASA's Goddard Institute for...
Objects Of Desire Sherry Turkle Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of...	Say It Ain't So Stuart Firestein Professor and Chair Department of Biological Sciences,...
Being Told That Our Destiny Is Among The Stars Ed Regis Science writer; Author, Regenesis	Global Cooperation Is Failing And We Don't Know Why Daniel Haun Director, the Research Group for Comparative Cognitive...
Morbid Anxiety Joel Gold Psychiatrist; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry,...	Worrying About Children Alison Gopnik Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Philosophical Baby
A Synthetic World Seirian Sumner Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Biology School, University...	The Death Of Mathematics Keith Devlin Mathematician; Executive Director, H-STAR Institute,...
Losing Our Hands Susan Blackmore Psychologist; Author, Consciousness: An Introduction	Internet Silos Larry Sanger Co-founder of Wikipedia and Citizendium
The New Age Of Anxiety Gary Klein Senior Scientist, MacroCognition LLC; Author, Seeing What...	Does The Human Species Have The Will To Survive? Dave Winer Blogging and RSS Software Pioneer; Editor, Scripting News...
All The T In China Robert Kurzban Psychologist, UPenn; Director, Penn Laboratory for...	Neural Data Privacy Rights: An Invitation For Progress In The Guise Of An Approaching Worry Melanie Swan Systems-Level Thinker; Futurist; Applied Genomics Expert;...
Armageddon Timothy Taylor Professor of the Prehistory of Humanity, University of...	No Surprises From The LHC: No Worries For Theoretical Physics Amanda Gefter Consultant, New Scientist; Founding Editor, CultureLab
Losing Completeness Anton Zeilinger Physicist, University of Vienna; Scientific Director,...	Worries On The Mystery Of Worry Donald D. Hoffman Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, Visual Intelligence
The Growing Gap Between The Scientific Elite And The Vast "Scientifically Challenged" Majority Leo M. Chalupa Neurobiologist; Vice President of Research, George...	Presentism Noga Arikha Historian of ideas; Author, Passions and Tempers: A History...
Metaworry Brian Knutson Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience;...	Do We Understand The Dynamics Of Our Emerging Global Culture? Kirsten Bomblies Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Organismic &...
The Loss Of Lust Tor Nørretranders Science Writer; Consultant; Lecturer, Copenhagen; Author,...	We Worry Too Much About Fictional Violence Jonathan Gottschall Distinguished Research Fellow, English Department,...
The Consequences Of Our Increasing Knowledge Of What Causes Disease, And Its Consequences For Human Freedom Esther Dyson Catalyst, Information Technology Startups, EDventure...	A World Of Cascading Crises Peter Schwartz Futurist, Business Strategist; Senior Vice President for...
Natural Death Antony Garrett Lisi Theoretical physicist	C.P. Snow's 'Two Cultures': The Nature-Nurture Debate Simon Baron-Cohen Psychologist, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge University...
The Demise Of The Scholar Daniel L. Everett Linguistic Researcher; Dean of Arts and Sciences, Bentley...	The Unavoidable Intrusion Of Sociopolitical Forces Into Science Nicholas A. Christakis Physician and Social Scientist, Yale University; Co-author...
Who Gets to Play in the Science Ballpark Stephon H. Alexander E.E. Just Professor of Natural Sciences, Dartmouth	Communities Of Fate Margaret Levi Director, Center For Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences...
Working with Others? Robin S. Rosenberg Clinical Psychologist; Author, What's the Matter with...	Working with Others? Stephen M. Kosslyn Founding Dean, Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate...
Super-A.I.s Won't Rule The World (Unless They Get Culture First) Andy Clark Philosopher and Cognitive Scientist, University of...	Posthuman Geography David Dalrymple Research affiliate, MIT Media Lab
The Danger From Aliens Seth Shostak Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute; Author, Confessions of...	The Role Of Microorganisms In Cancer Is Being Ignored By The Current Sequencing Strategies Azra Raza, M.D. Professor of Medicine, Director of the MDS Center, Columbia...
Human Intuitions Will Stifle Technological Progress David Pizarro Associate Professor of Psychology, Cornell University	Illusions Of Understanding And The Loss Of Intellectual Humility Tania Lombrozo Associate Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley
The End Of Hardship Inoculation Adam Alter Psychologist; Assistant Professor of Marketing, Stern...	An Exploding Number Of New Illegal Drugs Thomas Metzinger Professor of Philosophy, Philosophisches Seminar, Johannes...
Superstition Matt Ridley Science Writer; Founding chairman of the International...	History And Contingency Paul Kedrosky Editor, Infectious Greed; Senior Fellow, Kauffman Foundation
The Triumph Of The Virtual, And Its Consequences Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Psychologist; Director, Quality of Life Research Center,...	There Is Nothing To Worry About, And There Never Was Virginia Heffernan Columnist, The New York Times Magazine; Editorial Director...
The Cultural And Cognitive Consequences Of Electronics Luca De Biase Journalist; Editor, Nova 24, of Il Sole 24 Ore	Failure Of Genomics For Mental Disorders Terrence J. Sejnowski Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Professor, the...
Crisis At The Foundations Of Physics Steve Giddings Theoretical Physicist; Professor, Department of Physics,...	The Behavior Of Normal People Karl Sabbagh Writer and Television Producer; Author, Remembering Our...
Democracy Dylan Evans Founder and CEO of Projection Point; author, Risk...	Human Population, Prosperity Growth: One I Fear, One I Don't Laurence C. Smith Professor and Chair of Geography; Professor of Earth,...
Magic Neil Gershenfeld Physicist, Director, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms;...	The Rise In Genomic Instability Eric J. Topol, M D Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Translational Science...
Can They Read My Brain? Stanislas Dehaene Neuroscientist; Collège de France, Paris; Author, The...	A World Without Growth? Satyajit Das Former Banker; Author, Extreme Money; Traders Guns &...
The Dangerous Fascination Of Imagination Carlo Rovelli Theoretical Physicist; Aix-Marseille University, in the...	Worrying James J. O'Donnell Classical Scholar, University Professor, Georgetown...
The Gift Of Worry Robert Provine Research Professor/Professor Emeritus, University of...	Not Enough Robots Rodney A. Brooks Roboticist; Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus) ,...
Safe Mode For The Internet? George Dyson Science Historian; Author, Turing's Cathedral: The...	Life As We Know It Max Tegmark Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology; Scientific...
Unknown Unknowns Gary Marcus Professor of Psychology, Director NYU Center for Language...	Our Blindspots Daniel Goleman Psychologist; Author, Ecological Intelligence, Focus: The...
The Is-Ought Fallacy Of Science And Morality Michael Shermer Psychologist; Historian of science; Publisher, Skeptic...	The Loss Of Our Collective Cognition And Awareness Douglas Rushkoff Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Present Shock
The Decline Of The Scientific Hero Roger Highfield Director, External Affairs, Science Museum Group; Coauthor...	What Is A Good Life? David Christian Director, Big History Institute and Distinguished Professor...
Digital Tat ... Juan Enriquez Managing Director, Excel Venture Management; Co-author,...	Capture Charles Seife Professor of Journalism, New York University; former...
Society's Parlous Inability To Reason About Uncertainty Aubrey De Grey Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer. SENS Foundation;...	Fast Knowledge Nicholas Humphrey Emeritus Professor of Psychology, London School of...
The "Nightmare Scenario" For Fundamental Physics Peter Woit Mathematical Physicist, Columbia University; Author, Not...	Homogenization Of The Human Experience Scott Atran Anthropologist, National Center for Scientific Research,...
We Won't Be Able To Understand Everything Clifford Pickover Author, The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical...	Systematic Thinking About How We Package Our Worries Mary Catherine Bateson Professor Emerita, George Mason University; Visiting...
The Real Risk Factors For War Steven Pinker Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology;...	Worrying About Stupid Roger Schank Psychologist & Computer Scientist; Engines for...
The Belief Or Lack Of Belief In Free Will Is Not A Scientific Matter Howard Gardner Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard...	Science Is In Danger Of Becoming The Enemy Of Humankind Colin Tudge Biologist; Editor at New Scientist; Author, The Link
Living Without The Internet For A Couple Of Weeks Daniel C. Dennett Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co...	Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Words? Benjamin K. Bergen Associate Professor, Cognitive Science, University of...