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| Burton Richter |
Stanford |
"What is the Universe made of?" |
(NOBEL PRIZE) |
| Dudley Herschbach |
Harvard |
"How is 'Nature' defined?" |
(NOBEL PRIZE) |
| Roy Glauber |
Harvard |
"What constitutes 'Information'?" |
(NOBEL PRIZE) |
| Martin Perl |
Stanford |
"What defines 'Complexity'?" |
(NOBEL PRIZE) |
| Lisa Randall |
Harvard |
"How do 'Universal Forces' originate?" |
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| Max Tegmark |
M.I.T. |
"What was before the Universe?" |
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| Avi Loeb |
Harvard |
"How can we look back in time?" |
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| Peter Woit |
Columbia |
"What isn't Universe?" |
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| Alexander Vilenkin |
Tufts |
"Do parallel universes' exist?" |
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| Barry Mazur |
Harvard |
"How do numbers apply to the Universe?" |
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| Curtis McMullen |
Harvard |
"How is 'Randomness' defined?" |
(FIELDS MEDAL) |
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| Susumu Tonegawa |
M.I.T. |
"How did 'Life' first begin?" |
(NOBEL PRIZE) |
| Arthur Kornberg |
Stanford |
"Can life be seen as chemistry?" |
(NOBEL PRIZE) |
| James Hanken |
Harvard |
"How many types of life are there?" |
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| Richard Losick |
Harvard |
"What are the smallest living things?" |
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| Matthew Scott |
Stanford |
"What traits do living things share?" |
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| Deborah Gordon |
Stanford |
"How does life pattern itself?" |
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| Lucy Shapiro |
Stanford |
"Can the smallest life forms think?" |
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| Francisco Ayala |
UC Irvine |
"Why is 'Evolution' daunting?" |
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| David Haig |
Harvard |
"Do genes truly compete?" |
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| Martin Nowak |
Harvard |
"Does cooperation promote life?" |
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| Andrew Knoll |
Harvard |
"How fragile is Earth-based life?" |
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| Steven Pinker |
Harvard |
"How did 'Language' evolve?" |
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| Eric Kandel |
Columbia |
"What defines 'Memory'?" |
(NOBEL PRIZE) |
| Mahzarin Banaji |
Harvard |
"Do our minds purposely deceive us?" |
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| Mike Merzenich |
UCSF |
"Can we strengthen our brains?" |
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| Carol Dweck |
Stanford |
"What is the 'Growth Mind Set'?" |
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| Mark Bear |
M.I.T |
"Why does memory matter?" |
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| Steve Kosslyn |
Harvard |
"How do we visualize ideas?" |
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| Earl Miller |
M.I.T |
"Where do thoughts originate?" |
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| Howard Gardner |
Harvard |
"What is 'Multiple Intelligence'?" |
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| Rebecca Goldstein |
Radcliffe |
"What constitutes a 'Big Idea'?" |
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| Bill Mobley |
Stanford |
"When does information break down?" |
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| Marc Hauser |
Harvard |
"Can 'Morality' be quantified?" |
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| Noam Chomsky |
M.I.T |
"What are 'Power Systems'?" |
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| Donald Kennedy |
Science Journal |
"Where does 'Science' meet 'Society'?" |
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| Alan Dershowitz |
Harvard |
"What is 'Law'?" |
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| Kenneth Arrow |
Stanford |
"What is 'Economics'?" |
(NOBEL PRIZE) |
| Edmund Phelps |
Columbia |
"Can we see patterns in civilization?" |
(NOBEL PRIZE) |
| Abbas Milani |
Stanford |
"What is a 'Political Revolution'?" |
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| Fred Von Loehman |
EFF |
"How did the Internet begin?" |
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| James Surowiecki |
NY Times |
"What is 'Collective Intelligence'?" |
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| Dalton Conley |
NYU |
"What is 'Free Will'?" |
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| Elizabeth Warren |
Radcliffe |
"When do financial systems fail?" |
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| Herbert Kelman |
Harvard |
"What is 'Effective Conflict Resolution'?" |
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| Michael Jackson |
Harvard |
"What is 'Saving vs. Understanding'?" |
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| Larry Diamond |
Stanford |
"What defines 'Democracy'?" |
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| Iara Peng |
People for the American Way |
"Is democracy important'?" |
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| Marc Feldman |
Stanford |
"How do populations 'drift'?" |
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| HTerry Karl |
Stanford |
"What defines 'Human Rights'?" |
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| David Perkins |
Harvard |
"Is civilization truly advancing?" |
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| W.H.K. Panofsky |
SLAC |
"Will 'Nukes' end human existence?" |
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| Harry Lewis |
Harvard |
"How is information changing?" |
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| Gilberto Gil |
Nrazil |
"What defines 'Globalization'?" |
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| Mac Maharaj |
South Africa |
"What is the 'Knowledge Revolution'?" |
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| John Perry Barlow |
EFF |
"Where does 'mind' begin and end?" |
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| Michael Oppenheimer |
Stanford |
"What defines 'Environment'?" |
(NOBEL PRIZE- IFCC) |
| George Church |
Harvard |
"What is 'Personal Genomics'?" |
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| Lene Ha |
Harvard |
"Can light be controlled?" |
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| Sara Seager |
M.I.T |
Will other life be discovered?" |
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| Neil Gershenfeld |
M.I.T |
"What is the 'Digital Fabrication Revolution'?" |
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| Rodney Brooks |
M.I.T |
"Will man and machine merge?" |
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| Rudolph Jaenisch |
Whitehead |
"What will replace stem cells?" |
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| Steve Schneider |
Stanford |
"How can the climate debate change?" |
(NOBEL PRIZE- IFCC) |
| Terry Root |
Stanford |
"What is the 'natural world'?" |
(NOBEL PRIZE- IFCC) |
| Pardis Sabeti |
Harvard |
"What 'Human Puzzles' remain?" |
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| John Hennessy |
Stanford |
"What is the future of education?" |
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| Rosalind Picard |
M.I.T |
"Can technology 'feel'? |
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