The Seed Salon
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Seed Salon: Jill Tarter + Will Wright
The astrobiologist and the game developer discuss model-making, the singularity, and the value of scientific revolutions.
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Seed Salon: Tom Wolfe + Michael Gazzaniga
The father of cognitive neuroscience and the original New Journalist discuss status, free will, the human condition, and The Interpreter.
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The Transcript: Tom Wolfe + Michael Gazzaniga
The father of cognitive neuroscience and the original New Journalist discuss status, free will, the human condition, and The Interpreter.
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Seed Video Feature: Marc Hauser + Errol Morris (Highlights)
The evolutionary psychologist and the documentary filmmaker discuss game theory, Stanley Milgram, and whether science can make us better people.
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Marc Hauser + Errol Morris
The evolutionary psychologist and the documentary filmmaker discuss game theory, Stanley Milgram, and whether science can make us better people.
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Paola Antonelli + Benoit Mandelbrot
The curator and the mathematician discuss fractals, architecture, and the death of Euclid.
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Seed Video Feature: Paola Antonelli + Benoit Mandelbrot (Highlights)
The curator and the mathematician discuss fractals, architecture, and the death of Euclid.
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Seed Video Feature: Spencer Wells + Will Self (Highlights)
The geneticist/anthropologist enters the Seed Salon to discuss chimpanzee hybrids, the death of philosophy, and human nature with the essayist/novelist.
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Will Self + Spencer Wells
The writer and the genetic anthropologist meet up to talk about place, identity, and what it means to be human.
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Natalie Jeremijenko + Lawrence Krauss
The artist and the physicist meet up to discuss science as a public enterprise.
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Seed Salon: Lawrence Krauss + Natalie Jeremijenko
The Star Trek physicist enters the Seed Salon to discuss participation, the politics of knowledge production, and seduction with the artist/engineer.
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Michael Shanks + Lynn Hershman Leeson
The archaeologist and the artist meet up to talk about presence.
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Seed Video Feature: Lynn Hershman Leeson + Michael Shanks
The artist/filmmaker enters the Seed Salon to discuss artifacts, presence, and invisibility with the Stanford archaeologist.
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Chuck Hoberman + Lisa Randall
The inventor and the physicist meet up to talk about shape.
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Seed Salon: Lisa Randall + Chuck Hoberman (Highlights)
The Harvard physicist enters the Seed Salon to discuss shape, magic tricks, and the definition of "see" with the architect/designer.
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Seed Salon: David Byrne + Daniel Levitin (Full Cut)
The singer/songwriter/artist/author enters the Seed Salon to discuss music with the producer/neuroscientist.
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David Byrne + Daniel Levitin
The singer/songwriter and the neuroscientist meet up to discuss music.
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Jonathan Lethem + Janna Levin
The novelist and the cosmologist meet up to talk about reality.
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Seed Video Feature: Jonathan Lethem + Janna Levin (Highlights)
Brooklyn's literary mashup artist enters the Seed Salon to discuss truth and beauty with the Columbia physicist/novelist.
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Seed Video Feature: Jonathan Lethem + Janna Levin (Full Cut)
Brooklyn's literary mashup artist enters the Seed Salon to discuss truth and beauty with the Columbia physicist/novelist.
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E.O. Wilson + Daniel Dennett
The biologist and the philosopher meet up to talk about God, evolution, incest, and of course, ants.
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Seed Video Feature: Michel Gondry + Robert Stickgold
The Oscar-winning filmmaker enters the Seed Salon to discuss dreams with the Harvard sleep researcher.
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Seed Video Feature: Michel Gondry + Robert Stickgold (Full Cut)
The Oscar-winning filmmaker enters the Seed Salon to discuss dreams with the Harvard sleep researcher.
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Seed Video Feature: Noam Chomsky + Robert Trivers
The anti-war activist and MIT linguist enters the Seed Salon to discuss deceit with the Rutgers evolutionary biologist.
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Noam Chomsky + Robert Trivers
The anti-war activist and MIT linguist meets the Rutgers evolutionary biologist in the Seed Salon to discuss deceit.
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Seed Video Feature: Noam Chomsky + Robert Trivers (Full Cut)
The anti-war activist and MIT linguist enters the Seed Salon to discuss deceit with the Rutgers evolutionary biologist.
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Andrea Barrett + Niles Eldredge
The historical fiction writer and curator of the American Museum of Natural History enter the Seed Salon to discuss the role of narrative in science.
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Laurie David + Stephen Schneider
The activist and climate scientist enter the Seed Salon to deliberate the state of the planet.