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TECH PROPHECY AND THE UNDERAPPRECIATED CAUSAL POWER OF IDEAS Steven Pinker Steven Pinker, a Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, is an experimental psychologist who conducts research in visual cognition, psycholinguistics, and social...

…IRE TO MORE THAN MAKING OURSELVES OBSOLETE Max Tegmark Max Tegmark is an MIT physicist and AI researcher; president of the Future of Life Institute; scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute; and the author of Our Mathematical Universe and Life 3.0: Being Human...

…earning Importance: — High gender differenece. unlikely motivational. every cell is different. size is didfferent. . the more radical idea is that brains are the nucleus of the human" cell: the body the membrane, . the organizm the colletcions and interactions of brains. wisdo...

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“SURVIVING THE CENTURY’ The inaugural Carl Sagan Memorial Lecture Cornell University, 8 May 2017 It’s a great honour to give this Carl Sagan lecture. The ideas he stood for need proclaiming louder than ever today. We need an optimistic vision of life’s destiny --- in this world...

Creativity 301 TRY ANSWERING IN YOUR OWN TIME Another famous, but clichéd, problem is of you to draw four straight lines through these nine points without lifting the pen from the paper. Can you do it? e ° ° e e ° * e e TRY ANSWERING IN YOUR OWN TIME I won't put the answers...

23 disciplines keep a chokehold on how younger academics think and do research. Today, the single most popular form of development dissertation in both economics and political science is a randomized micro-experiment in which the graduate student goes out into the field and stud...

…itles, ranging from investment banker to anatomy researcher. But he is better known in China asa spe- cialist who knows the country inside out. Over the past 29 years, he has visited almost every provincial region and spoken with people from all walks of life, including some who...

120 Teaching Minds how best to throw a rock in order to hit the cat. For many of these things, hypotheses can be formed, discussions about what makes a good hypothesis can be had, and ideas for testing out hypotheses can be sought. Maybe these would just be thought experiments (...

….pdf; Untitled attachment 200384.htm Importance: High Jeffrey: How's all in our crazy world? I'm in NY until August 31 (then again, after Beijing, Sept. 25 — Oct. 14). If you are in town, meet? When convenient, I'd like you to meet Peter Getzels, Closer To Truth producer/director...

…Hughes’ aircraft design factory in Los Angeles, arrived for his first day at work at a low-slung, modern building along the Santa Monica beach in California. RAND - astylish 1950’s acronym for Research & Development - had been established by the US Air Force with an ambitious aim...

…fically, how do we get businesses to do more in terms of hiring, spend less on redtape, less on bureaucracy, and reduce the regulatory burden in smart ways? The current administration has said some of the right things but actually moved in the wrong direction. We have seen a sha...

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