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#117 – Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning

Posted August 20, 2020 • 02:56:51

Sheldon Solomon is a social psychologist, a philosopher, co-developer of Terror Management Theory, co-author of The Worm at the Core. Please support...

#116 – Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System

Posted August 16, 2020 • 01:42:02

Sara Seager is a planetary scientist at MIT, known for her work on the search for exoplanets. Support this podcast by supporting our sponsors. Click...

#115 – Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI

Posted August 14, 2020 • 02:10:33

Dileep George is a researcher at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, co-founder of Vicarious, formerly co-founder of Numenta....

#114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch

Posted August 9, 2020 • 02:49:14

Russ Tedrake is a roboticist and professor at MIT and vice president of robotics research at TRI. He works on control of robots in interesting, complicated,...

#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics

Posted July 31, 2020 • 02:29:51

Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group. He is interested in understanding the human genome from a computational,...