Nick Bostrom's Dangerous Idea? Societies should limit the development of harmful technologies while promoting beneficial ones.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Christian Lander sees himself as an expert on "Stuff White People Like".
Gabor Maté is a physician at OnSite, a Vancouver detox facility and the only supervised injection site in North America.
Physicist Clifford Pickover talks with Steve Paulson about Magic Squares and why people get hooked on them.
From the tiniest microscopic particles to some of the biggest structures on earth, the new science of astrobiology is leading the way to the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe. Dimitar Sasselov explains why the creation of the world's first artificial cells will revolutionize lifeon our planet.
Daniel Pinchbeck is the heir to Timothy Leary: he explores and advocates the use of psychedelic drugs.
Novelist Richard Powers bookmarks "Objects and Empathy" by Arthur Saltzman.
Drew Gilpin Faust's latest book, This Republic of Suffering, explores one of the most sobering aspects of the Civil War: its colossal death toll.
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