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Harry Collins is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise, and Science at Cardiff University. He is the author of Changing Order, Gravity’s Shadow, Gravity’s Ghost, Gravity’s Ghost and Big Dog, among other books.

Harry Collins

Physics

Gravity’s Kiss

Dario Bettoni is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Heidelberg University, in Germany, where he focuses on various topics in modified gravity theories and their cosmological application in the dark sector.

Dario Bettoni

Dark Matter Could Be a Superfluid Sometimes

Joseph E. LeDoux a Fellow of the American Academy since 2006, is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at New York University. He is the author of the books Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are, The Emotional Brain, and Anxious: Using the Brain to Better Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety.

Joseph E. LeDoux

Neuroscience

Feelings: What Are They and How Does the Brain Make Them?

Don S. Lemons is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas.

Don S. Lemons

Arts

Drawing Physics

Adam Gazzaley is a professor in the Departments of Neurology, Physiology, and Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, where he is also the founding director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center, Neuroscape Lab, and the Gazzaley Lab. Recipient of the 2015 Society for Neuroscience Science Educator Award, he wrote and hosted the nationally televised PBS special The Distracted Mind with Dr. Adam Gazzaley.

Adam Gazzaley

Psychology

The Distracted Mind

Joshua Holden

Technology

How Classical Cryptography Will Survive Quantum Computers

Brian Gallagher is an associate editor at Nautilus. Follow him on X (formerly known as Twitter) <a href="https://twitter.com/bsgallagher/" rel="noopener">@bsgallagher</a>.

Brian Gallagher

How Should Society Judge a Defendant with a Brain Tumor?

David Baker is the director of the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington.

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Gravity’s Kiss

Dark Matter Could Be a Superfluid Sometimes

Feelings: What Are They and How Does the Brain Make Them?

Drawing Physics

The Distracted Mind

How Classical Cryptography Will Survive Quantum Computers

How Should Society Judge a Defendant with a Brain Tumor?

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