Conversations with scientists on life’s biggest questions ⭐

A collection of conversations with leading scientists and thinkers exploring the biggest questions about life, the universe, and what it means to be human.

Interviews

• Martin Rees — Cosmologist (on the beginning and end of the universe)
• Richard Dawkins — Evolutionary biologist (on egoism and selflessness)
• V. S. Ramachandran — Neuroscientist (on consciousness)
• Jared Diamond — Physiologist & geographer (on chance and necessity in history)
• Jane Goodall — Primatologist (on our relationship to animals)
• Steven Weinberg — Physicist (on science and religion)
• Elizabeth Blackburn — Molecular biologist (on aging)
• Peter Singer — Philosopher (on ethics)
• Nicholas Christakis — Physician & social scientist (on human relationships)
• Craig Venter — Biochemist (on the human genome)
• Roald Hoffmann — Chemist and poet (on beauty in molecules and science)
• Hannah Monyer — Neurobiologist (on memory)
• Vittorio Gallese — Neuroscientist (on empathy)
• Raghavendra Gadagkar — Animal behaviour researcher (on altruism)
• Ernst Fehr — Economist (on fairness)
• Walter Zieglgänsberger — Neuropharmacologist (on pain)
• Sarah Hrdy — Anthropologist (on motherhood)
• Alison Gopnik — Developmental psychologist (on childhood intelligence)
• Leonardo da Vinci — (on the beginnings of modern scientific research)