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Jonathon Keats is an experimental philosopher, writer, and artist. He is the award-winning author of six books on subjects ranging from science and technology to art and design. He is a research associate at the University of Arizona, a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado Boulder, a senior fellow at the Berggruen Institute, a research fellow at the Long Now Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution, principal philosopher at Earth Law Center, and an artist-in-residence at Biosphere 2.

Jonathon Keats

Sociology

Famous for Being Indianapolis

Rose Eveleth

Psychology

The Curse of Being a Sole Survivor

Nautilus Commenter

Communication

Unlikely Story: The Birthday Surprise

When Pigs Fly, Crayfish Whistle, and It Snows Red Snowflakes

Luba Ostashevsky

Ingenious: Jim Davies

Jim Davies is a professor at the Department of Cognitive Science at Carleton University. He is co-host of the award-winning podcast Minding the Brain. His latest book is Being the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are: The Science of a Better You.

Jim Davies

Explaining the Unexplainable

Tell Us Your Astonishingly Unlikely Story

Amos Zeeberg

Economics

The Marvelous, Bad Ideas That Are Worth $Billions

Veronique Greenwood

Far From Home Is Where the Heart Is

Camille Alexa

Arts

Hardly Never in Vegas

Steve Paulson is the executive producer of Wisconsin Public Radio’s nationally syndicated show <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/">To the Best of Our Knowledge</a>. He’s the author of Atoms and Eden: Conversations on Religion and Science. You can find his podcast about psychedelics, Luminous, <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/series/luminous">here</a>.

Steve Paulson

History

Monsters, Marvels, and the Birth of Science

Lina Zeldovich grew up in a family of Russian scientists, listening to bedtime stories about volcanoes, black holes, and intrepid explorers. She has written for the Smithsonian, National Geographic, Reader’s Digest, the New York Times and other publications. Her most recent book, <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250283382/thelivingmedicine">The Living Medicine</a>: How a Lifesaving Cure was Nearly Lost and Why it Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail, chronicled the history of phage therapy and was longlisted for the PEN America Literary Awards.

Lina Zeldovich

Health

Mind-Control Helicopters and the Healing Power of Poop

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