2013 : WHAT SHOULD WE BE WORRIED ABOUT?

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2013 : WHAT SHOULD WE BE WORRIED ABOUT?

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Words? Benjamin K. Bergen Associate Professor, Cognitive Science, University of...	A World Of Cascading Crises Peter Schwartz Futurist; Senior Vice President for Global Government...
Excellence Eric R. Weinstein Mathematician and Economist; Managing Director of Thiel...	Authoritarian Submission Michael Vassar Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, MetaMed Research
The Loss Of Death Kate Jeffery Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Dept. of...	Who Gets to Play in the Science Ballpark Stephon H. Alexander Professor of Physics at Brown University; Author, The Jazz...
I've Given Up Asking Questions Terry Gilliam Screenwriter; Film Director; Animator; Actor; Member, Monty...	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...	Applying Classic Science To Understand "Modern States" Shaped By Crime Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran Philosopher; Director, Scientific Vortex, Inc.
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 Are In Denial About Catastrophic Risks Martin Rees Former President, The Royal Society; Emeritus Professor of...	Computer-Generated Fascism David Bodanis Writer; Futurist; Author, Einstein's Greatest Mistake
The Mating Wars David M. Buss Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin;...	History And Contingency Paul Kedrosky Editor, Infectious Greed; General Partner, SK Ventures
Data Disenfranchisement David Rowan Editor, WIRED UK	The Coming Fight Between Engineers And Druids Paul Saffo Technology Forecaster; Consulting Associate Professor,...
Crisis At The Foundations Of Physics Steve Giddings Theoretical Physicist; Professor, Department of Physics,...	Lamplight Probabilities Bart Kosko Information Scientist and Professor of Electrical...
Are We Homogenizing The Global View Of A Normal Mind? P. Murali Doraiswamy Professor of Psychiatry, Translational Neuroscience...	What Is Conscious? Timo Hannay Founding Managing Director, SchoolDash; Co-organizer, Sci...
That We Won't Make Use Of The Error Catastrophe Threshold William McEwan Investigator Scientist, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology...	A Fearful Asymmetry: The Worrying World Of A Would-Be 'Science' Helena Cronin Co-director of LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural...
Unmitigated Arrogance Jessica L. Tracy Associate Professor of Psychology, University of British...	Science By (Social) Media Michael I. Norton Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration,...
Misplaced Worries Dan Sperber Social and Cognitive Scientist; CEU Budapest and CNRS Paris...	The Human-Nature Divide Scott Sampson President & CEO, Science World British Columbia;...
The Complex, Consequential, Not-So-Easy Decisions About Our Water Resources Giulio Boccaletti Chief Strategy Officer of The Nature Conservancy; Author,...	Big Experiments Won't Happen Lisa Randall Physicist, Harvard University; Author, Dark Matter and the...
What We Learn From Firefighters Nassim Nicholas Taleb Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering, New York...	Chinese Eugenics Geoffrey Miller Evolutionary psychologist, NYU Stern Business School and...
Men Helen Fisher Biological Anthropologist, Rutgers University; Author, Why...	World As We Know It Richard Foreman Playwright & Director; Founder, The Ontological-...
Technology May Endanger Democracy Haim Harari Physicist, former President, Weizmann Institute of Science...	Science Publishing Marco Iacoboni Neuroscientist; Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral...
Is The New Public Sphere... Public? Andrew Lih Associate Professor of Journalism, American University;...	Stress Arianna Huffington Chair, President, Editor-In-Chief, The Huffington Post...
"Smart" Evgeny Morozov Contributing Editor, Foreign Policy; Syndicated Columnist;...	Losing Touch Christine Finn Archaeologist; Journalist; Author, Artifacts, Past Poetic
Are We Becoming Too Connected? Gino Segre Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of...	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,...	Putting Our Anxieties To Work Joseph LeDoux Professor of Neural Science, Psychology, Psychiatry, and...
What—Me Worry? J. Craig Venter A leading scientist of the 21st century for Genomic...	Science Has Not Brought Us Closer To Understanding Cancer Xeni Jardin Tech Culture Journalist; Partner, Contributor, Co-editor,...
Power And The Internet Bruce Schneier Fellow and Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School; Author, Data...	One Universe Lawrence M. Krauss Theoretical Physicist; Foundation Professor, School of...
Blown Opportunities Frank Wilczek Physicist, MIT; Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics;...	MADness Vernor Vinge Mathematician; Computer Scientist; Hugo Award-winning...
The End Of Fundamental Science? Mario Livio Astrophysicist; Author, Why?: What Makes Us Curious	Rats In A Spherical Trap Gregory Benford Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UC-Irvine;...
The Fragility Of Complex Systems Randolph Nesse Research Professor of Life Sciences, Director (2014-2019),...	The Promise Of Catharsis Andrian Kreye Editor-at-large of the German Daily Newspaper, Sueddeutsche...
The Paradox Of Material Progress Rolf Dobelli Founder, Zurich Minds; Journalist; Author, The Art of...	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, Stevens Institute of Technology; Author...
Close To The Edge Kai Krause Software Pioneer; Philosopher; Author, A Realtime...	Impact Bruce Hood Chair of Developmental Psychology in Society, University of...
Children Of Newton And Modernity Stuart A. Kauffman Professor of Biological Sciences, Physics, Astronomy,...	Social Media: The More Together, The More Alone Marcel Kinsbourne Neurologist and Cognitive Neuroscientist, The New School;...
The Danger Of Inadvertently Praising Zygomatic Arches Robert Sapolsky Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Behave	The Teenage Brain Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Psychology Professor, University of Cambridge; Author,...
Augmented Reality William Poundstone Journalist; Author, How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck?:...	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...	Where Did You Get That Fact? Victoria Stodden Associate Professor of Information Sciences, University of...
Being Told That Our Destiny Is Among The Stars Ed Regis Science writer; Author, Monsters	Say It Ain't So Stuart Firestein Professor and Chair, Department of Biological Sciences,...
Incompetent Systems John Naughton Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research in the Arts,...	Is Idiocracy Looming? Douglas T. Kenrick Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University; Author,...
The Rise Of Anti-Intellectualism And The End Of Progress Tim O'Reilly Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc.; Author, WTF?:...	Worrying About Children Alison Gopnik Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Gardener and the...
"The Singularity": There's No There There Bruce Sterling Science Fiction Author, Mirrorshades	The Death Of Mathematics Keith Devlin Mathematician; Executive Director, H-STAR Institute,...
A Synthetic World Seirian Sumner Reader, Behavioral Ecology, University College London	The Power Of Bad Incentives Sam Harris Neuroscientist; Philosopher; Author, Making Sense
Morbid Anxiety Joel Gold Psychiatrist; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry,...	Quantum Mechanics Lee Smolin Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Einstein's...
Internet Silos Larry Sanger Co-founder of Wikipedia and Citizendium	The Relative Obscurity Of The Writings Of Édouard Glissant Hans Ulrich Obrist Curator, Serpentine Gallery, London; Editor: A Brief...
Neural Data Privacy Rights: An Invitation For Progress In The Guise Of An Approaching Worry Melanie Swan Philosophy and Economic Theory, the New School for Social...	Global Cooperation Is Failing And We Don't Know Why Daniel Haun Professor of Early Child Development and Culture, Director...
All The T In China Robert Kurzban Psychologist, UPenn; Director, Penn Laboratory for...	Does The Human Species Have The Will To Survive? Dave Winer Blogging and RSS Software Pioneer; Editor, Scripting News...
Losing Our Hands Susan Blackmore Psychologist; Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth;...	The New Age Of Anxiety Gary Klein Senior Scientist, MacroCognition LLC; Author, Seeing What...
No Surprises From The LHC: No Worries For Theoretical Physics Amanda Gefter Science writer; Author, Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn	Armageddon Timothy Taylor Jan Eisner Professor of Archaeology, Comenius University in...
Losing Completeness Anton Zeilinger Nobel laureate (2022 - Physics); Physicist, University of...	Worries On The Mystery Of Worry Donald D. Hoffman Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, The Case Against...
The Growing Gap Between The Scientific Elite And The Vast "Scientifically Challenged" Majority Leo M. Chalupa Neurobiologist; Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology,...	Metaworry Brian Knutson Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience; Stanford...
Do We Understand The Dynamics Of Our Emerging Global Culture? Kirsten Bomblies Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Organismic &...	Presentism Noga Arikha Associate Fellow, Warburg Insitute (London); Research...
The Opinions Of Search Engines W. Daniel Hillis Physicist, Computer Scientist, Co-Founder, Applied...	C.P. Snow's 'Two Cultures': The Nature-Nurture Debate Simon Baron-Cohen Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of...
The Loss Of Lust Tor Nørretranders Writer; Speaker; Thinker, Copenhagen, Denmark	The Consequences Of Our Increasing Knowledge Of What Causes Disease, And Its Consequences For Human Freedom Esther Dyson Investor; Chairman, EDventure Holdings; Executive Founder,...
We Worry Too Much About Fictional Violence Jonathan Gottschall Distinguished Research Fellow, English Department,...	Natural Death Antony Garrett Lisi Theoretical physicist
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 Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, Yale...
Posthuman Geography David Dalrymple Research affiliate, MIT Media Lab	Communities Of Fate Margaret Levi Sara Miller McCune Director, Center For Advanced Study in...
The Danger From Aliens Seth Shostak Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute; Author, Confessions of...	Super-A.I.s Won't Rule The World (Unless They Get Culture First) Andy Clark Professor of Cognitive Philosophy, Department of Philosophy...
Current Sequencing Strategies Ignore the Role of Microorganisms in Cancer Azra Raza, M.D. Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine, Columbia University...	Human Intuitions Will Stifle Technological Progress David Pizarro Associate Professor of Psychology, Cornell University
The End Of Hardship Inoculation Adam Alter Psychologist; Assistant Professor of Marketing, Stern...	Illusions Of Understanding And The Loss Of Intellectual Humility Tania Lombrozo Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley
Superstition Matt Ridley Science Writer; Fellow, Royal Society of Literature and the...	An Exploding Number Of New Illegal Drugs Thomas Metzinger Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg-...
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	The Underpopulation Bomb Kevin Kelly Senior Maverick, Wired; Author, What Technology Wants and...
The Patience Deficit Nicholas G. Carr Author, Utopia is Creepy	Magic Neil Gershenfeld Physicist, Director, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms;...
Human Population, Prosperity Growth: One I Fear, One I Don't Laurence C. Smith Professor of Environmental Studies, Brown University;...	The Disconnect Barbara Strauch Science Editor, The New York Times; Author, The Secret Life...
Democracy Dylan Evans Founder and CEO of Projection Point; Author, The Utopia...	The Behavior Of Normal People Karl Sabbagh Producer; Founder, Managing Director, Skyscraper...
Failure Of Genomics For Mental Disorders Terrence J. Sejnowski Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Professor, the...	Can They Read My Brain? Stanislas Dehaene Neuroscientist; Collège de France, Paris; Author, How We...
The Rise In Genomic Instability Eric Topol Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Translational Science...	The Anthropocebo Effect Jennifer Jacquet Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, NYU; Author,...
The Gift Of Worry Robert Provine Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, Baltimore...	Worrying James J. O'Donnell Classics Scholar, University Librarian, ASU; Author, Pagans
The Dangerous Fascination Of Imagination Carlo Rovelli Theoretical Physicist; Aix-Marseille University, in the...	A World Without Growth? Satyajit Das Former Financier; Author, Age of Stagnation
Not Enough Robots Rodney A. Brooks Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus); Former Director...	Our Blindspots Daniel Goleman Psychologist; Author (with Richard Davidson), Altered Traits
Unknown Unknowns Gary Marcus Professor of Psychology, Director NYU Center for Language...	Life As We Know It Max Tegmark Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology; Scientific...
Safe Mode For The Internet? George Dyson Science Historian; Author, Analogia	The Decline Of The Scientific Hero Roger Highfield Director, External Affairs, Science Museum Group; Co-author...
The Loss Of Our Collective Cognition And Awareness Douglas Rushkoff Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Throwing Rocks...	The Is-Ought Fallacy Of Science And Morality Michael Shermer Publisher, Skeptic magazine; Monthly Columnist, Scientific...
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 (...
The "Nightmare Scenario" For Fundamental Physics Peter Woit Mathematical Physicist, Columbia University; Author, Not...	Fast Knowledge Nicholas Humphrey Emeritus Professor of Psychology, London School of...
Society's Parlous Inability To Reason About Uncertainty Aubrey de Grey Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation;...	Capture Charles Seife Professor of Journalism, New York University; Former...
Homogenization Of The Human Experience Scott Atran Anthropologist; Emeritus Research Director, Centre National...	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...	Science Is In Danger Of Becoming The Enemy Of Humankind Colin Tudge Biologist; Author, Six Steps Back to the Land
The Real Risk Factors For War Steven Pinker Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology;...	Living Without The Internet For A Couple Of Weeks Daniel C. Dennett Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co...
Worrying About Stupid Roger Schank CEO, Socratic Arts Inc.; John Evans Professor Emeritus of...	The Belief Or Lack Of Belief In Free Will Is Not A Scientific Matter Howard Gardner Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard...