Brian Gallagher

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    Forget What You Think You Know About Emotions

    Emotions don’t happen to you; your brain creates them.

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    How Can Science Be More Creative?

    One question for Ruth Morgan, a professor of crime and forensic sciences at University College London.

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    Who Should Make the Rules That Govern AI?

    One question for Laura Weidinger and Iason Gabriel, research scientists at Google DeepMind.

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    Why Do People Believe the Earth Is Flat?

    One question for José Arroyo-Barrigüete, an economist at Comillas Pontifical University in Spain.

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    Is Consciousness More Like Chess or the Weather?

    Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.

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    How Can We Discourage Mass Shootings?

    One question for Maurizio Porfiri and Rayan Succar, dynamical systems engineers at New York University.

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    Why Do So Many Moons Have Oceans?

    One question for Julie Castillo-Rogez, a planetary geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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    When Are We OK with Getting Bribed?

    One question for Nils Köbis, a social psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

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    The Race to Colonize Mars Perpetuates a Dangerous Religion

    We can learn about the universe without conquering it.

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    How Can We Stop the CO2 That Plants Store from Leaking Back Into the Air?

    One question for Eli Yablonovich, an applied physicist at UC Berkeley.