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“Even a blind person knows the shape of the parts of a car,” George Church says. “We didn’t know the shape of anything that we are made out of.”

It all started with dragonfly larvae in his backyard.

Gilbert would like to interview my great, great, great granddaughter.

Gilbert would build an irrational Walden.

Dan Gilbert says technology could make us happier if we used it in the right ways.

An age of believing our eyes, rather than our elders.

We don’t have everything we want, but we sure have a lot, says Dan Gilbert.

Dan Gilbert says the environment should be the most pressing issue because of its urgency and gay marriage, precisely because it is a non-issue.

Interesting things happen when two sides of the brain duke it out.

Belief in something we absolutely can’t see, for which there’s no evidence, cuts against the grain of what it means to be a scientist to me.

Science is the worst way of knowing except for all the other ways of knowing.

Kant is the foundation for modern psychology, Gilbert says.

Scientific psychology from science fiction.

Simply put, good science is creative, says Dan Gilbert.

Dan Gilbert’s creative process involves a lot of puzzling and puzzling and puzzling.

Gilbert looks forward to answers to questions we haven’t even asked yet.

Gilbert discusses the nature of happiness and his work in affective forecasting, which is the process by which people look into their future and make predictions about what they’ll like […]

Daniel Gilbert wandered into psychology.

The city that teaches probability.

Dershowitz would like to pick the brain of an innovative psychologist.

Democracy by soundbite is not democracy, says Alan Dershowitz.

Can we strike the proper balance?

Though there is great leadership in business, there is a severe shortage in governments the world over.

Big issues instead of bumper stickers.

Even tyrants know that civilized society needs law.

The volatile mix of poverty and fundamentalism.

Dershowitz talks of the need for a Continuum of Civilianality.

Alan Dershowitz on regulating beatings and waterboarding.

Can we hold people? And for how long can we hold them? And under what circumstances can we hold them because we strongly suspect that they are planning to do […]

Dershowitz wishes academics would go back to first principles.