Elizabeth Gilbert, JD, PhD, is Head of Research at PsychologyCompass, which merges psychology and technology to help people develop habits to improve their mental well-being and performance. Her research expertise[…]
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Eswar Prasad is the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy and professor of economics at Cornell University. He is also a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he holds[…]
Anna Lembke is a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she has published more[…]
Tom Alberg (1940-2022) was a lawyer and businessman who had served on the boards of many public and private companies, including Amazon, for which he was a director from 1996[…]
Beth Shapiro is an evolutionary molecular biologist and a professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work focuses on ancient[…]
Robb Dunn is writer and professor in the Department of Applied Ecology at North Carolina State University. He is the author of books such as Every Living Thing: Man’s Obsessive Quest[…]
Dr. Elizabeth Fernandez is a science communicator, looking at the interface between science and technology in society, and writes on science and society, science and philosophy, astronomy, physics, and geology.[…]
Louise Haagh is a professor of politics at the University of York. She is co-chair of the Basic Income Earth Network and author of The Case for Universal Basic Income.
Dr. Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is an artist examining our fraught relationships with nature and technology. Through artworks, writing, and curatorial projects, Daisy’s work explores subjects as diverse as artificial intelligence,[…]
John McWhorter is an associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University. He writes an opinion column for The New York Times, hosts the podcast “Lexicon Valley," and is the author[…]
Jacob Helberg is a senior adviser at the Stanford University Center on Geopolitics and Technology and an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Helberg is[…]
Jonathan Malesic is an essayist, journalist, and scholar whose writing has been recognized as notable in Best American Essays (2019, 2020, 2021) and Best American Food Writing (2020) and has[…]
Andrew Fillat, who trained as an electrical engineer, has worked for technology venture capital and information technology companies.
Michael Bhaskar is the cofounder of Canelo, one of the world’s fastest growing publishing companies, and former consultant Writer in Residence at DeepMind, the world’s leading AI lab. He has written[…]
Henry Gee is a senior editor at Nature and the author of several books, including A Very Short History of Life on Earth. He has appeared on BBC television and[…]
Clarissa Wright is a science journalist with an educational background in geology and paleontology.
Luke Burgis is a veteran entrepreneur and author. He’s the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship in Washington, DC, and the founder of Fourth Wall Ventures, an incubator[…]
Dr. Jasna Hodžić holds a Ph.D. in ecology and is a writer and editor based out of the western United States.
Jimena Canales is an expert in 19th and 20th century history of the physical sciences, working for a better understanding of science and technology in relation to the arts and[…]
Dr. Kathryn Paige Harden is a tenured professor in the Department of Psychology at UT, where she leads the Developmental Behavior Genetics lab and co-directs the Texas Twin Project. She[…]
Dr. Peter Rogers grew up milking cows and building barns. This provided him the transferable skills necessary for a smooth transition into academic research. Three years of genetics research led[…]
Dr. Amishi Jha is an internationally renowned neuroscience researcher, speaker, and author in the fields of attention, resilience, and mindfulness. She studies how to keep the brain’s attention systems in[…]
Dr. Louis B. Rosenberg is a computer scientist and current CEO of Unanimous AI, a California company focused on amplifying human intelligence using AI algorithms modeled on biological swarms. Rosenberg[…]
Dr. Michael Wooldridge is a professor of computer science at the University of Oxford. His current research is at the intersection of logic, computational complexity, and game theory. He has[…]
Dr. James Suzman a PhD an anthropologist specializing in the Khoisan peoples of southern Africa. A former Smuts Fellow in African Studies at the University of Cambridge, he is now[…]
Daniel Lehewych is a graduate of philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center and a freelance writer. His areas of specialization include moral psychology, the philosophy of mind, and the history[…]
Ethan Siegel is a Ph.D. astrophysicist and author of "Starts with a Bang!" He is a science communicator, who professes physics and astronomy at various colleges. He has won numerous[…]
Dr. Alex Berezow is the Executive Editor of Big Think and the Executive Editor of Freethink. He holds a Ph.D. in microbiology and is a veteran science writer, author, and public[…]