2008 : WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY?

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2008 : WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY?

I stopped cheering for the Romans James J. O'Donnell Classics Scholar, University Librarian, ASU; Author, Pagans	The Nature of Human Nature Michael Shermer Publisher, Skeptic magazine; Monthly Columnist, Scientific...
Veridical Perception Donald D. Hoffman Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, The Case Against...	Wrestling with Jean Piaget, my Paragon Howard Gardner Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard...
The Omniscience and Omnipotence of Science Colin Tudge Biologist; Author, Six Steps Back to the Land	Can Robots See God? Rudy Rucker Mathematician; Computer Scientist; Cyberpunk Pioneer;...
The Bible Is Inane David Bodanis Writer; Futurist; Author, Einstein's Greatest Mistake	Neuroscientist, New York University; Author, The Synaptic Self Joseph LeDoux Professor of Neural Science, Psychology, Psychiatry, and...
In Praise of Fishing Expeditions Robert Provine Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, Baltimore...	Physicist; Technical Consultant; Science Fiction Writer; Author, The Transparent Society David Brin Scientist; Speaker; Technical Consultant; Author, Existence
We Are Alone Martin Seligman Professor and Director, Positive Psychology Center,...	There are No Moral Facts Thomas Metzinger Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg-...
Predicting the Future Ed Regis Science writer; Author, Monsters	We Differ More Than We Thought Mark Pagel Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Reading University, UK;...
How I Became An Evolutionary Psychologist Dan Sperber Social and Cognitive Scientist; CEU Budapest and CNRS Paris...	Physicist, Institute of Advanced Study, Author, A Many Colored Glass Freeman Dyson Physicist, Institute of Advanced Study; Author, Disturbing...
Psychologist, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Author: The Cognitive Brain Arnold Trehub Psychologist, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Author...	The Obligations and Responsibilities of The Scientist Leon M. Lederman Director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Explanations Piet Hut professor of astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced...	To Unify or Not: That is the Question Marcelo Gleiser Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy, Dartmouth College...
The Universe's Expansion Gino Segre Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of...	Relativism Timothy Taylor Jan Eisner Professor of Archaeology, Comenius University in...
The Internet Douglas Rushkoff Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Throwing Rocks...	The Fallacy of Hypothesis Testing Irene Pepperberg Research Associate & Lecturer, Harvard; Author, Alex...
Everything Nick Bostrom Professor, Oxford University; Director, Future of Humanity...	Clear and simple is not the same as provable and well defined Haim Harari Physicist, former President, Weizmann Institute of Science...
Writer and Television Producer; Author, The Riemann Hypothesis Karl Sabbagh Producer; Founder, Managing Director, Skyscraper...	Soul Searching Todd E. Feinberg M.D. is Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at...
Neuroscientist, Stanford University, Author, A Primate's Memoir Robert Sapolsky Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Behave	The Science of Self-deception Requires a Deep Understanding of Biology Robert Trivers Evolutionary Biologist; Professor of Anthropology and...
Should I be thinking about quantum gravity? John Baez Mathematical Physicist, U.C. Riverside	Attitudes Trump Facts John Mccarthy Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University
Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology Max Tegmark Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology; Scientific...	Computation as the Ultimate Metaphor Rodney A. Brooks Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus); Former Director...
Professor of Journalism, New York University; formerly journalist, Science magazine; Author, Zero: The Biography Of A Dangerous Idea Charles Seife Professor of Journalism, New York University; Former...	I Used To Think I Could Change My Mind Antony Garrett Lisi Theoretical physicist
Maybe MBAs Should Design Computers After All David Dalrymple Research affiliate, MIT Media Lab	Editor-At-Large, Wired; Author, New Rules for the New Economy Kevin Kelly Senior Maverick, Wired; Author, What Technology Wants and...
What created the structure of the universe? Paul J. Steinhardt Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Departments of...	Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, The Trouble With Physics Lee Smolin Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Einstein's...
Homeopathic Bias and Language Origins Daniel L. Everett Linguistic Researcher; Dean of Arts and Sciences, Bentley...	The Impressionable Brain Marcel Kinsbourne Neurologist and Cognitive Neuroscientist, The New School;...
The Myth of the "Open Mind" Steve Nadis Contributing Editor to Astronomy Magazine and a freelance...	Whats Special About Human Language Gary Marcus Professor of Psychology, Director NYU Center for Language...
Social psychologist, Hope College; author, Psychology, 8th edition David G. Myers Professor of Psychology, Hope College; Co-author,...	Futurist, Business Strategist; Cofounder. Global Business Network, a Monitor Company; Author, The Long Boom Peter Schwartz Futurist; Senior Vice President for Global Government...
Planned Obsolescence? The Four-Year Itch Helen Fisher Biological Anthropologist, Rutgers University; Author, Why...	If we could just get people to understand the science, they'd agree with us.Not Lee M. Silver professor at Princeton University in the Department of...
Mathematician; Executive Director, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford; Author, The Keith Devlin Mathematician; Executive Director, H-STAR Institute,...	The Death of the Dinosaurs Scott Sampson President & CEO, Science World British Columbia;...
Permanent Reincarnation Tor Nørretranders Writer; Speaker; Thinker, Copenhagen, Denmark	Rapid climate change Laurence C. Smith Professor of Environmental Studies, Brown University;...
Retired Physicist & Writer; Coauthor (with John Archibald Wheeler), Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics Kenneth W. Ford Retired Director of the American Institute of Physics	Being Caught In The Language Trap â€” Or Wittgenstein's Straitjacket Ernst Pöppel Head of Research Group Systems, Neuroscience and Cognitive...
From A Simple Truth To Diane F. Halpern Professor, Claremont McKenna College; Past-president,...	Being a Heretic is Hard Work Sean Carroll Theoretical Physicist, Caltech; Author, Something Deeply...
What I've Changed My Mind About Sherry Turkle Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of...	Sports and fraternities are not so bad Jonathan Haidt Social Psychologist; Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical...
A Big Mind Change At Age 10: Vacuums Don't Suck! Alan Kay Founding member of Xerox PARC; President of Viewpoints...	The Human Recipe Richard Wrangham Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Curator of...
Changing My Mind About the Mind-Body Problem John Horgan Director, Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of...	I have changed my mind about cortical neurons and now think that they are far more capable than we ever imagined. Terrence J. Sejnowski Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Professor, the...
Quantum Mechanical Engineer, MIT, Author, Programming the Universe Seth Lloyd Professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Author,...	Computational Analysis of Language Requires Understanding Language Marti Hearst Computer Scientist, UC Berkeley, School of Information;...
The eradication of irrational thinking is (not) inevitable (it will require some serious work) Marco Iacoboni Neuroscientist; Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral...	AI? Roger Schank CEO, Socratic Arts Inc.; John Evans Professor Emeritus of...
Evolution of Faith In Experiments George Church Professor, Harvard University; Director, Personal Genome...	Exchanging Your Mind Gary Klein Senior Scientist, MacroCognition LLC; Author, Seeing What...
I used to be a committed Platonist. Paul Davies Theoretical physicist; cosmologist; astro-biologist; co-...	The Religious Politics of Fictive Kinship Scott Atran Anthropologist; Emeritus Research Director, Centre National...
There is nothing to add to the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics. Carlo Rovelli Theoretical Physicist; Aix-Marseille University, in the...	Generalization Judith Rich Harris Independent Investigator and Theoretician; Author, The...
The World in the Brain Stephen M. Kosslyn Founding Dean, Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate...	Have Humans Stopped Evolving? Steven Pinker Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology;...
Brain Plasticity Leo M. Chalupa Neurobiologist; Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology,...	Online Communities Rot Without Daily Tending By Human Hands Xeni Jardin Tech Culture Journalist; Partner, Contributor, Co-editor,...
Human Spaceflight Oliver Morton Chief News and Features Editor	What is the Universe Made of and How Will it End? Lawrence M. Krauss Theoretical Physicist; Foundation Professor, School of...
So far, I've changed my mind twice about God. Alan Alda Actor; Writer; Director; Host, PBS program Brains on Trial...	Climate Change: Warming Up To The Evidence Stephen Schneider climatologist, is a professor in the Department of...
Good Old Stuff Sucks Stewart Brand Founder, the Whole Earth Catalog; Co-founder, The Well; Co-...	The Benefit of Being Able to Change My Mind Daniel Gilbert Professor of Psychology at Harvard University
Changing my Mind Patrick Bateson* Professor of Ethology, Cambridge University; Co-author,...	Breathtaking New Technologies Linda Stone Hi-Tech Industry Consultant; Former Executive at Apple...
It's hard to perform ethical research on animals Daniel Engber Columnist, Slate	Trusting Experts Paul W. Ewald Professor of Biology, Amherst College; Author, Plague Time
Physicist, Harvard University; Author, Warped Passages Lisa Randall Physicist, Harvard University; Author, Dark Matter and the...	We Should Take the 'Posthuman' Era Seriously Martin Rees Former President, The Royal Society; Emeritus Professor of...
Seeing Through a Carbon Lens Christopher J. Anderson Curator, TED conferences, TED Talks; author, TED Talks	Falsifiability Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Philosopher, Novelist; Recipient, 2014 National Humanities...
Female Sexual Psychology David M. Buss Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin;...	That empirical data of journalism are no match for the bigger picture of science Andrian Kreye Editor-at-large of the German Daily Newspaper, Sueddeutsche...
What Matters Austin Dacey Representative to the United Nations for the Center for...	Reassessing Relatedness Seirian Sumner Reader, Behavioral Ecology, University College London
The Mechanical Worldview Brian Goodwin Professor of Biology at Schumacher College	Physicist, Columbia University; Author, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines Janna Levin Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Barnard College of...
The skepticism of believers Rupert Sheldrake biologist and author	The source of long term power Juan Enriquez Managing Director, Excel Venture Management; Co-author (...
The Paranormal Susan Blackmore Psychologist; Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth;...	The Inexplicable Monks Daniel Goleman Psychologist; Author (with Richard Davidson), Altered Traits
Equality Simon Baron-Cohen Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of...	From Revolutionary to Evolutionary Brian Eno Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay, Talking...
Planetary Scientist; Cassini Imaging Science Team Leader; Director CICLOPS, Boulder CO; Adjunct Professor, University of Colorado Carolyn Porco Planetary Scientist; Cassini Imaging Team Leader; Director...	Computer Scientist and Musician; Columnist, Discover Magazine Jaron Lanier Computer Scientist; Musician; Author, Who Owns The Future?
Culture can change our genes Nicholas A. Christakis Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, Yale...	Russian America George Dyson Science Historian; Author, Analogia
Biologist, University of Minnesota; blogger, Pharyngula P Z Myers Biologist; Associate Professor, University of Minnesota,...	Neuroeconomics really explains human economic behavior James Geary Deputy Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard...
The question of objects Hans Ulrich Obrist Curator, Serpentine Gallery, London; Editor: A Brief...	Greenland changed my mind William H. Calvin Theoretical Neurobiologist; Affiliate Professor Emeritus,...
Astrophysicist, Harvard Dimitar D. Sasselov Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University; Director,...	Competition in the brain Daniel C. Dennett Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co...
More dumbbells but more Nobels: Why men are at the top Helena Cronin Co-director of LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural...	The Advent of Health Literacy Gerd Gigerenzer Psychologist; Director, Harding Center for Risk Literacy,...
I was skeptical of the term Tim O'Reilly Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc.; Author, WTF?:...	Smothering Science with Silence Robert Shapiro Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Senior Research...
Making and Changing Minds Mary Catherine Bateson Professor Emerita, George Mason University; Visiting...	A book on â€œWhat is really Science? Francesco DePretis Journalist, La Stampa; Italy Correspondent, Science Magazine
Technology is Not So Bad Adam Bly Head of Advanced Analytics, Spotify	Curiosity is addictive, and this is not an entirely good thing Aubrey de Grey Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation;...
I used to think what I am doing is Anton Zeilinger Nobel laureate (2022 - Physics); Physicist, University of...	Editor-in Chief, Nature Philip Campbell Editor-in-Chief of Nature since 1995; Beginning summer 2018...
The Convergence of Belief Change John Allen Paulos professor of mathematics at Temple University	Mother Nature is Not Our Friend Sam Harris Neuroscientist; Philosopher; Author, Making Sense
The Brain's SchrÃ¶dinger Equation Stanislas Dehaene Neuroscientist; Collège de France, Paris; Author, How We...	Science as faith Roger Highfield Director, External Affairs, Science Museum Group; Co-author...
The hardness of the problem of consciousness is the key to its solution Nicholas Humphrey Emeritus Professor of Psychology, London School of...	The Radiant and Infectious Web Nicholas G. Carr Author, Utopia is Creepy
Editor, Release 1.0; Trustee, Long Now Foundation; Author, Release 2.0 Esther Dyson Investor; Chairman, EDventure Holdings; Executive Founder,...	The Science Formerly Known as Religion Frank Wilczek Physicist, MIT; Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics;...
The soul is in the brain Eduardo Punset Scientist; Spanish Television Presenter; Author, The...	Life experience changed my mind Joseph "Yossi" Vardi chairman of International Technologies
Try the Experiment Yourself W. Daniel Hillis Physicist, Computer Scientist, Co-Founder, Applied...	Asking for directions Geoffrey Miller Evolutionary psychologist, NYU Stern Business School and...
THE SAMPLE MEAN Bart Kosko Information Scientist and Professor of Electrical...	Imagination is Real Alison Gopnik Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Gardener and the...
Education as Stretching the Mind Jamshed Bharucha Psychologist; President Emeritus, Cooper Union	The Irrelevance of Nassim Nicholas Taleb Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering, New York...
The Experience of the Normally Functioning Mind is the Exception Barry C. Smith Professor & Director, Institute of Philosophy School of...	Users Are Not Reactionary After All David Gelernter Computer Scientist, Yale University; Chief Scientist,...
Electronic Mail Jordan Pollack Professor and Chairman of Computer Science, Brandeis...	The Self-Made Species Denis Dutton Philosopher; Founder and Editor, Arts & Letters Daily;...
The sad tale of the aspiration treadmill Daniel Kahneman Recipient, Nobel Prize in Economics, 2002; Eugene Higgins...	I Have No Destiny (and Neither Do You) Jesse Bering Psychologist; Associate Professor, Centre for Science...
On Pattern Formation Lewis Wolpert Professor of Biology	Oversight and Programmer productivity Chris DiBona Open Source and Public Sector, Google
Religion and Science Clay Shirky Social & Technology Network Topology Researcher;...	I Missed the Complexity Revolution David Sloan Wilson SUNY distinguished professor of biology and anthropology,...
Changing My Religion Roger Bingham Cofounder and Director, The Science Network; Neuroscience...	SETI Ray Kurzweil Principal Developer of the first omni-font optical...
Reasoning from Evidence: A Call for Education Beatrice Golomb Professor of Medicine at UCSD	Software is merely a Performance Art Kai Krause Software Pioneer; Philosopher; Author, A Realtime...
The importance of doing something now about the environment. J. Craig Venter A leading scientist of the 21st century for Genomic...	A flip-flop should be no handicap Richard Dawkins Evolutionary Biologist; Emeritus Professor of the Public...
Consulting the public about science isn't always a waste of time â€” but consulting bioethicists often is Mark Henderson Head of Communications, Wellcome Trust; Author, The Greek...	The Light Side of Locality Stephon H. Alexander Professor of Physics at Brown University; Author, The Jazz...
The Calculus of Small but Consistent Effects Linda S. Gottfredson Project for the Study of Intelligence and Society	Physicist, MIT; Author, FAB Neil Gershenfeld Physicist, Director, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms;...
Evolving the laws of physics Gregory Benford Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UC-Irvine;...	The nation state is too big for the local things, too small for the international things and the root of most of the world's ills David Goodhart Founder and Editor of Prospect magazine
Science writer; Author, Miss Leavitt's Stars George Johnson Author; The Cancer Chronicles, The Ten Most Beautiful...	Truth does not reside with smart university experts Randolph Nesse Research Professor of Life Sciences, Director (2014-2019),...
The best forecasters will be computers Paul Saffo Technology Forecaster; Consulting Associate Professor,...	Do our languages shape the nuts and bolts of perception, the very way we see the world? Lera Boroditsky Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, UCSD