Insights
The Insights series of shorts captures moments of reflection from today's greatest thinkers on their process, as well as considerations of philosophical implications of their discipline. For a peak inside, think big. Updated regularly.
Shorts
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I See a Darkness: Perlmutter on Discovering Dark Energy
Saul Perlmutter, John Hockenberry -
Mary-Claire King: Queen of the Blue Moon
Mary-Claire King -
Eric Lander: The Genesis of Genius
Eric Lander -
Using the Tools at Our Disposal
Leonard Guarente -
Curing the Aging Brain
Leonard Guarente, Aubrey de Grey -
The Flourishing Affliction of Old Age
Judith Campisi -
Unifiers in History: James Maxwell
Jim Gates -
Eternal Inflation of a Cosmic Landscape
Leonard Susskind, Jim Gates
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Steven Weinberg: Modern Science’s Gift to Culture
Steven Weinberg -
Steven Weinberg: Congress Versus the Collider
Steven Weinberg -
Steven Weinberg: In Defense of Pure Science
Steven Weinberg -
Steven Weinberg: The Priorities of Practical
Steven Weinberg -
Steven Weinberg: Is It Anti-Science or Just Confusion?
Steven Weinberg -
Process and the Mathematical Revolution
Keith Devlin, Jonathan Borwein, Marcus du Sautoy, Simon Singh -
Can Math Be Beautiful?
Robert Krulwich, Marcus du Sautoy, Simon Singh -
Creative Math: The Heart of Something Complicated
Robert Krulwich, Marcus du Sautoy, Simon Singh, Jonathan Borwein
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Welcome to the Mathematical Universe
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Do Lab Rats Dream of Running Mazes?
Matthew Wilson -
Getting Sleep in the Wild
Niels Rattenborg -
Why Study Birds?
Niels Rattenborg -
The Safety of Sitting Ducks
Niels Rattenborg -
The Curious Case of Kenneth Parks
Carlos H. Schenck -
Perchance to Dream about Tetris
Robert Stickgold -
Dreams and the Resolution of the Mind
Robert Stickgold
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A Worldwide Standard of Care
Olufunmilayo Olopade, Eric Lander -
Our Global Human Genome
Olufunmilayo Olopade -
Humanizing Cancer Research
Siddhartha Mukherjee -
Finding the Telltale Genome
Eric Lander, Mary-Claire King -
Mary-Claire King: Freedom to Discover
Mary-Claire King -
Digital Physics: The Pioneering Konrad Zuse
Edward Fredkin, Jürgen Schmidhuber -
Testing from Inside the Maze
Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara -
From a Simple Code Emerges Complexity
Jürgen Schmidhuber
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Where Is the Computer, Who Is the Programmer?
Edward Fredkin -
Is the Universe Digital?
John Hockenberry, Brian Greene -
Creating Universes with Digital Bits
John Hockenberry, Jürgen Schmidhuber -
Cryptography’s Human Problem
Brian Snow, Simon Singh, Tal Rabin -
The Importance of Implementation
Brian Snow -
Cryptography: Codes, Ciphers, and Connections
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Public Perceptions of Privacy
Orr Dunkelman, Simon Singh, Brian Snow, Josh Zepps -
The Puzzle of Heterosexual Women
Meredith Chivers
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Sexuality across Cultures
Paul Vasey -
Making Impossible Predictions about Sexuality
Andrew Solomon, Marc Breedlove, Jim Pfaus -
The Birds and the Bees across Species
Jim Pfaus -
The Many Faces of Human Sexuality
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The Transgender Decision
Andrew Solomon, Marc Breedlove, Paul Vasey -
The Problem of Being Almost Consistent
Leonard Susskind, Gerard ’t Hooft, John Hockenberry -
What Is Information?
Gerard ’t Hooft -
How Much Information Exists in the Universe?
Raphael Bousso
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A Coat of Many Odors
Sissel Tolaas -
Strip Club Science
Leslie Vosshall, Avery Gilbert -
The Smell of Clean
Leslie Vosshall, Avery Gilbert -
Are Flowers Smelling You Back?
Consuelo De Moraes -
Smell: Fact or Fiction?
Avery Gilbert -
The Power of Smell
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The Fallibility of 9/11 Memories
Elizabeth Phelps -
The Fiction in Our Identity
Jonah Lehrer, Daniel L. Schacter
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How Good Is Your Memory?
Daniel L. Schacter -
To Remember Better, Build a Mansion in Your Mind
Joshua Foer, Lynn Nadel -
‘Genius Cells’ in the Brain?
Douglas Fields -
Robot Learning: Look at My Watch
Rodney Brooks, Faith Salie -
Inside the Mind of WATSON the Supercomputer
David Ferrucci -
Double Jeopardy: WATSON
David Ferrucci, Rodney Brooks -
Man-Made Minds: Living with Thinking Machines (Intro)
Faith Salie -
The Making of an Epiphany
Brian Greene, Marcus du Sautoy
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The Improbable Truth about Numbers
Charles Seife -
Telephone Math: Lost in Translation
Leonard Mlodinow -
Hey, That’s My Birthday Too
Amir Aczel -
Is Warp Drive Possible?
Lawrence M. Krauss -
Art Is the Beauty of Imagination
Jules Feiffer -
The Stickiness of Water
Sandra Magnus -
Fun, Games, and Newtonian Physics in Space
Leland Melvin, Sandra Magnus -
Astronaut Diaries: What’s on the Menu?
Miles O’Brien, Leland Melvin, Sandra Magnus
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Working at 100,000 Feet
Leland Melvin -
The Story of the Living, Breathing Mirror
Oliver Sacks -
The Illusion of Speech
Jamshed Bharucha -
Do We Live in a Reasonable Universe?
William Phillips -
Faith’s Unanswered Questions
Lorenzo Albacete -
The Heartbeat of Science
Bill Blakemore, Nina Azari, Lorenzo Albacete -
Bathrooms and Bubble Universes
Robert Krulwich, Andrei Linde -
The Beauty of Agreement
Brian Greene
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Persistence of Memory
Giulio Tononi -
Democratic System in Our Heads
Alan Alda, Giulio Tononi -
The Insurance Game
Francis Collins, Robert C. Green -
Are We Blinded by Life?
David Charbonneau -
Guestimating Exoplanets
David Charbonneau -
The Hatchery of Life
Michael Russell -
The Universal Language
Bobby McFerrin, Jamshed Bharucha -
What Does the Brain Have to Do with Music?
Daniel Levitin
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Music: A Whole Body Experience
Lawrence Parsons -
Hearing in Utero
Jamshed Bharucha, Daniel Levitin, Lawrence Parsons -
Decoding the Visual Field
Frank Tong -
The Noisy System of Guilt
John-Dylan Haynes, Frank Tong -
Decoding Dreams
Frank Tong -
How Do You Paint the Air?
Margaret S. Livingstone -
The Cosmic Treasure Hunt
Lucy Hawking -
My Father, Stephen Hawking
Lucy Hawking




