DAVID GELERNTER - "A community is not a community of disembodied spoken statements, in part because the most important aspect of the communication that people have is emotional, and one often communicates emotion not in terms of the text but as a subtext. The physical body is not irrelevant to a human community. The emotional subtext of human communication is crucial to human thought. It isn't a footnote. Too many computer scientists don't understand this."

He is a professor of computer science at Yale and chief scientist at Mirror Worlds Technologies (New Haven. He is the author of Mirror Worlds, The Muse in the Machine, 1939: The Lost World of the Fair, and Drawiing a Life: Surviving the Unabomber..

Further reading: "The Conservative — David Gelernter" in Digerati; "The Second Coming — A Manifesto

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NEIL GERSHENFELD - Neil Gershenfeld's Home Page http://web.media.mit.edu/%7Eneilg/

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JERRY COYNE

THE CASE AGAINST INTELLIGENT DESIGN [9.1.05]
The Faith That Dare Not Speak Its Name by Jerry Coyne

RANDOLPH NESSE, M.D. - Randolph Nesse's Home Page

He is Professor of Psychiatry, Director, ISR Evolution and Human Adaptation Program, The University of Michigan and coauthor (with George C. Williams) of Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine. LINKS: Is the Market on Prozac?

MARTIN NOWAK -

He is a Professor of Biology and Mathematics at Harvard University. He is Director of the newly founded Center for Evolutionary Dynamics, for which Harvard obtained a donation of $30 million. Nowak studied biochemistry and mathematics at the University of Vienna where he received his Ph-D in 1989. Afterwards, he went to Oxford to work with Robert May. Nowak became Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Oxford at the age of 32. In 1998 he moved to Princeton to establish the first research program in Theoretical Biology at the Institute for Advanced Study. In July 2003, Nowak was recruited by Harvard University. Nowak is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has won several prizes including the Weldon Memorial Prize. Nowak has made important discoveries in a number of fields related to evolutionary biology. He has studied evolutionary dynamics of virus infections and cancer progression. He has pioneered the mathematical approach for the evolution of human language. Nowak invented spatial reciprocity and stochastic game dynamics of finite populations. Nowak and Sigmund have cooperated for many years. Their work led to concepts like Generous Tit-for-tat, Win-stay, lose-shift and indirect reciprocity. They are co-authors of numerous papers in Nature, Science and Scientific American. Nowak has published more than 200 papers. His first book, Virus Dynamics (together with Robert May) is a technical monograph describing the mathematical analysis of virus infection and immunology.

STEVE PETRANEK is the editor-in-chief of Discover Magazine. -  Discover

CLIFFORD PICKOVER - Clifford Pickover Home Page

He is a research staff member at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center, in Yorktown Heights, New York. He is the holder of more than a dozen patents dealing with computer interfaces, and he has written some twenty books on a broad range of topics, including Time : A Traveler's Guide, Surfing Through Hyperspace : Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons, Black Holes : A Traveler's Guide, Future Health : Computers and Medicine in the 21st Century, Keys to Infinity, The Science of Aliens, The Paradox of God and the Science of Omniscience; Calculus and Pizza: A Math Cookbook for the Hungry Mind. Pickover's primary interest is in finding new ways to expand creativity by melding art, science, mathematics, and other seemingly disparate areas of human endeavor. His Internet Web site has attracted nearly two hundred thousand visitors.  

STEVEN PINKER -  Steven Pinker's Home Page

He is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he taught in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. He conducts research on language and cognition, writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time, and Slate, and is the author of six books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, Words and Rules, and The Blank Slate. Pinker serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards, including the Usage Panel of The American Heritage Dictionary and the scientific advisory board for "The Decade of Behavior." He has won many prizes for his books (including the William James Book Prize three times, the Los Angeles Times Science Book Prize, and the Eleanor Maccoby Book Prize), his research (including the Troland Research Prize from the National Academy of Sciences and the Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association), and his graduate and undergraduate teaching. He is also a Humanist Laureate and the recipient of three honorary doctorates.
"A Biological Understanding of Human Nature" & "The Science of Gender and Science"
Pinker vs. Spelke - A Debate Opening Comments
"The Science of Gender and Science"
Pinker vs. Spelke - A Debate Opening Comments
"The Science of Gender and Science"
Pinker vs. Spelke - A Debate

Further reading: "Language Is a Human Instinct" in The Third Culture [1995] 
"Organs of Computation": A Talk with Steven Pinker
"The Two Steves: A Debate": Steven Rose vs. Steven Pinker  & "A Biological Understanding of Human Nature: A Talk with Steven Pinker"  & "The Science of Gender and Science"

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JORDAN POLLACK - Jordan Pollack's home page

He is a computer science and complex systems professor at Brandeis University. His laboratory's work on AI, Artificial Life, Neural Networks, Evolution, Dynamical Systems, Games, Robotics, Machine Learning, and Educational Technology has been reported on by the New York Times, Time, Science, NPR, Slashdot.org and many other media sources worldwide. Jordan is a prolific inventor, advises several startup companies and incubators, and in his spare time runs Thin Mail, an Internet based service designed to increase the usefulness of wireless email.  

Further reading: "Software As a Cultural Solvent"
Dynamical and Evolutionary Machine Organization (DEMO) Laboratory, Brandeis University

ROBERT R. PROVINE -

He is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County where he studies the development and evolution of the nervous system. The walkie-talkie theory is presented in his book Laughter: A Scientific Investigation.There are two types of cosmologists active today: those who seek the physical principles driving the global properties of the Universe, and those who concentrate on the details of astrophysical objects, like galaxies, quasars, and black holes, that give complementary information about structure at smaller distances. Martin Rees is one of the few cosmologists exploring both venues, giving him a unique perspective from which to develop scientific ideas, and to synthesize known ideas for a broader audience.

DR. CAROLYN C. PORCO - http://ciclops.org/index.php?flash=1

She received her PhD degree in 1983 from the California Institute of Technology in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, having completed her doctoral dissertation on Voyager discoveries in the rings of Saturn. In the fall of 1983, she joined the faculty in the Department of Planetary Sciences within the University of Arizona; the same year she was made a member of the Voyager Imaging Team. In the latter capacity, she participated heavily in the Voyager encounters with Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989, leading the Rings Working Group within the Voyager Imaging Team during the latter encounter. In November 1990, she was selected as the leader of the Imaging Team for the Cassini mission to Saturn, an international mission that has successfully placed a spacecraft in orbit around Saturn, and deployed an atmospheric probe to Saturn's largest satellite, Titan. She is also an imaging scientist on the Pluto/Kuiper Belt mission, New Horizons, which will launch to Pluto in 2006.She is currently a Sr. Research Scientist at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Planetary Sciences at the University of Arizona, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She has taught both graduates and undergraduates and was one of 5 finalists for the University of Arizona Honors Center `Five Star Faculty Award', a campus-wide student-nominated, student-judged award for outstanding undergraduate teaching.She has been an active participant in guiding the American planetary exploration program through membership on several important NASA advisory committees, including the Solar System Exploration Subcommittee, the Mars Observer Recovery Study Team, and the Solar System Road Map Development Team. She served as the chaiperson for a small NASA advisory working group to study and develop future outer solar system missions and she recently served as the Vice Chair of the Steering Group for the Solar System Decadal Survey, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and NASA.

Dr. Porco, currently a regular CNN guest analyst and consultant on astronomy, has made many radio and television appearances explaining science to the layman, including appearances on the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, CBS' 60 Minutes, and TV documentaries on planetary exploration such as "Cosmic Journey: The Voyager Interstellar Mission and Message" on A&E, and "The Planets" on The Discovery Channel. She was a strong and visible defendant of the usage of radioactive materials on the Cassini spacecraft. She is currently a regular CNN on-camera guest analyst and consultant on astronomy .Dr. Porco has also given many newspaper and magazine interviews, and has been profiled eight times in print, beginning in 1989 (Boston Globe, October, 1989), in the New York Times (August 1999), in the Tucson Citizen (2001 ), and most recently in Newsday (June 2004). She was a member of a committee chaired by Carl Sagan in 1994 entitled "Public Communication of NASA's Science." Her popular scientific writings have been published in the London Sunday Times, the Guardian, Astronomy Magazine and the Arizona Daily Star. She continues to be active in the presentation of science to the public as the leader of the Cassini Imaging team. She is the creator/editor of the team's CICLOPS website (ciclops.org) where Cassini images are posted, and writes the site's home page opening greeting to the public.She is also the CEO of Diamond Sky Productions, a small company devoted to the scientific, as well as artful, use of planetary images and computer graphics for the presentation of science to the public.Dr. Porco was responsible for the epitaph and proposal to honor the late renowned planetary geologist, Eugene Shoemaker, by sending his cremains to the Moon aboard the Lunar Prospector spacecraft in 1998.In late 1999, she was selected by the Sunday London Times as one of 18 scientific leaders of the 21st century, and by Industrial Week as one of "50 Stars to Watch".Her contributions to the exploration of the outer solar system were recently recognized with the naming of Asteroid (7231) Porco: "Named in honor of Carolyn C. Porco, a pioneer in the study of planetary ring systems...and a leader in spacecraft exploration of the outer solar system."

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SIR MARTIN REES -

He is a Royal Society Professor at Cambridge University, Fellow of King's College, the UK's Astronomer Royal, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is the author of about 500 research papers, and widely acknowledged as one of the world's leading astronomers and cosmologists.SIR MARTIN REES is Royal Society Professor at Kings College, Cambridge and the UK Astronomer Royal. He was previously Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge, having been elected to this chair at the age of thirty, succeeding Fred Hoyle. He has originated many key cosmological ideas: for example, he was the first to suggest that the fantastically energetic cores of quasars may be powered by giant black holes. For the last twenty years, he has directed a wide-ranging research program at Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy. He is the author of several books, including Gravity's Fatal Attraction (with Mitchell Begelman); New Perspectives in Astrophysical Astronomy; Before the Beginning : Our Universe and Others; Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe; Our Cosmic Habitat; and Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in this Century—on Earth and Beyond (published in the UK as Our Final Century: The 50/50 Threat to Humanity's Survival). Martin Rees: The Bruce Medalist
LINKS:  "Living In a Multiverse"  &  "The Ultra Early Universe"   & "An Ensemble of Universes," Ch.15 in The Third Culture

HOWARD RHEINGOLD - Howard Rheingold's Home Page

He fell into the computer realm from the typewriter dimension, then plugged his computer into his telephone and got sucked into the net. In earlier years, his interest in the powers of the human mind led to Higher Creativity, written with Willis Harman, Talking Tech and The Cognitive Connections with Howard Levine Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind: A Book of Memes ), Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming , with Stephen LaBerge, and They Have A Word For It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and phrases.
"I ventured further into the territory where minds meet technology, via the subject of computers as mind-amplifiers, and wrote Tools for Thought . Next, Virtual Reality chronicled my odyssey in the world of artificial experience, from simulated battlefields in Hawaii to robotics laboratories in Tokyo, garage inventors in Great Britain, and simulation engineers in the south of France. "In 1985, I became involved in the WELL, a computer conferencing system. I started writing about life in my virtual community and ended up with a book about the cultural and political implications of a new communications medium, The Virtual Community. In 1993 I had the privilege of being the editor of The Whole Earth Review and editor in chief of The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog. In 1994, I was one of the principal architects and the first Executive Editor of HotWired. I quit after launch, because I wanted something more like a jam session than a magazine. In 1996, I founded and, with the help of a crew of 15, launched "Electric Minds". I've become a professional virtual community builder, as well. My new book is Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution.

"You can see my painted shoes, if you'd like."

Further reading: "Howard Rheingold: Smart Mobs"  & "The Citizen" in Digerati

CARLO ROVELLI - Carlo Rovelli's Home Page

He is a theoretical physicist, working on quantum gravity and on foundations of spacetime physics. He is professor of physics at the University of the Mediterraneum in Marseille, France and member of the Intitut Universitaire de France. He is the author of Quantum Gravity and (in Italian) Cos'e' il tempo? Cos'e' lo Spazio?

RUDY RUCKER - Rudy Rucker's Home Page

He is a mathematician, computer scientist; CyberPunk pioneer; and novelist. His books include Infinity and the Mind, Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension, Freeware, & White Light.

KARL SABBAGH -

He is a writer and television producer with 25 years of experience describing complex events and subjects for a nonspecialist audience. His programs for the BBC and PBS have encompassed physics, medicine, psychology, philosophy, technology, and anthropology. Two of his television projects have been accompanied by best-selling books: The Living Body and Skyscraper. Sabbagh has written numerous articles for newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Times, New Scientist, The Listener, and Punch. He has also hosted a regular BBC radio series called Science Now. His other books include 21st Century Jet: The Making and Marketing of the Boeing 777; A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud; & The Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics.

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DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF - Doulgas Ruskoff 's Home Page

He analyzes the way people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other's values. He sees "media" as the landscape where this interaction takes place, and "literacy" as the ability to participate consciously in it. Rushkoff is the author of eight best-selling books on new media and popular culture, that have been translated into over 20 languages, including Cyberia, Media Virus, Playing the Future, Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say, Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism, and the novels Ecstasy Club, and Exit Strategy.
His writes essays and commentaries for NPR's All Things Considered, Time Magazine, and CBS Sunday Morning. Rushkoff lectures about media, art, society, and change at conferences and universities around the world. He hosts and writes documentaries for PBS, Channel Four, and the BBC. Rushkoff's award-winning Frontline documentary "The Merchants of Cool" was one of the most watched and most talked about documentaries of the year.

He has served as an professor of virtual culture at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program for the past four years, as an Advisor to the United Nations Commission on World Culture, on the Board of Directors of the Media Ecology Association and the Center for Cognitive Liberties and Ethics, and as a founding member of Technorealism. He is a Senior Fellow of the Markle Foundation, and a Center for Global Communications Fellow of the International University of Japan.He regularly appears on TV shows from NBC Nightly News and Frontline to Larry King and Politically Incorrect. Rushkoff writes for magazines and newspapers including Time, The Guardian, Esquire, Paper, GQ and The Silicon Alley Reporter, and developed the Electronic Oracle software series for HarperCollins Interactive. Further reading: "The Thing That I Call Doug"

ROBERT SAPOLSKY - Robert Sapolsky Home Page

He is a professor of biological sciences at Stanford University and of neurology at Stanford's School of Medicine. He is also a research associate at the National Museums of Kenya. While his primary research, on stress and neurological disease, is in the laboratory, for twenty-three years he has made annual trips to the Serengeti of East Africa to study a population of wild baboons and the relationship between personality and patterns of stress-related disease in these animals. His latest book, A Primate's Memoir, grew out of the years spent in Africa. He is also the author of Stress, the Aging Brain, and the Mechanisms of Neuron Death, and two books for nonscientists, The Trouble With Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament and Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases and Coping.

LINKS: A BOZO OF A BABOON: A Talk with Robert Sapolsky

JEAN PAUL SCHMETZ -

He is the Managing Director of CyberLab Interactive Productions GmbH, a subsidiary of the Burda Media Group and a Member of the Executive Board of Burda New Media GmbH.

STEPHEN H. SCHNEIDER - Stephen H. Schneider's Home Page

He is a climatologist, is Professor in the Biological Sciences Department at Stanford University and the Former Department Director and Head of Advanced Study Project at the National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder. He is internationally recognized as one of the world's leading experts in atmospheric research and its implications for environment and society. Dr. Schneider's books include The Genesis Strategy: Climate Change and Global Survival; The Coevolution Of Climate and Life and Global Warming: Are We Entering The Greenhouse Century?; and Laboratory Earth

ROGER SCHANK -
Roger Schank, is currently Distinguished Career Professor at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, and Chief Education Officer, Carnegie Mellon West. He is the former Chairman and Chief Technology Officer for Cognitive Arts and was the founding Director of the Institute for the Learning Sciences at Northwestern University since its founding in 1989. He held three faculty appointments at Northwestern University as John Evans Professor of Computer Science, Education, and Psychology. Previously, he was Professor of Computer Science and Psychology at Yale University and Director of the Yale Artificial Intelligence Project.ÝHe was also a visiting professor at the University of Paris VII, a faculty member at Stanford University, and research fellow at the Institute for Semantics and Cognition in Switzerland. In addition, Dr. Schank is a fellow of the AAAI, the founder of the Cognitive Science Society, and co-founder of the Journal of Cognitive Science. One of the world's leading Artificial Intelligence researchers, Dr. Schank is the author of more than 125 articles and publications.Ý His books include: Dynamic Memory: A Theory of Learning in Computers and People , Tell Me a Story: A New Look at Real and Artificial Memory, The Connoisseur's Guide to the Mind, and Engines for Education. His newest book is Virtual Learning: A Revolutionary Approach to Building a Highly Skilled Workforce.

Further reading:"Information is Surprises" — in The Third Culture
"The Disrespected Student — or — The Need for the Virtual University": A Talk with Roger Schank.

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GINO SEGRE  - Gino Segre's Home Page

He is a professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania. HE was born in Florence, Italy and raised in Florence and New York City.He has been a visiting professor at M.I.T. and Oxford, chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Pennsylvania from 1987 until 1992 and Director of Theoretical Physics at the National Science Foundation in 1995. He is the author of A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals About the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe. 

MARTIN E.P. SELIGMAN, Ph.D - Martin Seligman Upenn Home Page

Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D., works on learned helplessness, depression, and on optimism and pessimism. He is currently Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is well known in academic and clinical circles and is a best-selling author.
His bibliography includes twenty books and 200 articles on motivation and personality. Among his better-known works are Learned Optimism; The Optimistic Child; Helplessness; Abnormal Psychology, Authentic Happiness, and coauthor of The Classification of Strengths and Virtues.
Dr. Seligman's research and writing has been broadly supported by a number of institutions including The National Institute of Mental Health  (continuously since 1969), the National Institute of Aging, the National Science Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. His research on preventing depression received the MERIT Award of the National Institute of Mental Health in 1991. He is the network director of the Positive Psychology Network and Scientific Director of the Telos Project of the Mayerson Foundation.
In 1996 Dr. Seligman was elected President of the American Psychological Association.

LINKS: "EUDAEMONIA, THE GOOD LIFE": A Talk with Martin Seligman  & Authentic Happiness Coaching  & The Authentic Happiness Website  & The Martin Seligman Research Alliance

TERRENCE J. SEJNOWSKI - Terrence Sejnowksi Home Page;

He is a pioneer in Computational Neurobiology, is regarded by many as one of the world's most foremost theoretical brain scientists. He is Professor, Salk Institute; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and Professor of Biology and Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego,
He is coauthor of The Computational Brain;Thalamocortical Assemblies: How Ion Channels, Single Neurons and Large-Scale Networks Organize Sleep Oscillations; and most recently coauthor (with Steven Quartz) of Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are. Compututional Neurobiology Lab (CNL)

RUPERT SHELDRAKE - Rupert Sheldrake Online

He is a biologist and author of The Sense of Being Stared At, And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind; Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home, And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals; The Rebirth of Nature; and Seven Experiments That Could Change the World, as well as many technical papers in scientific journals. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He lives in London.

MICHAEL SHERMER -

He s the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the Director of the Skeptics Society, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Lecture Series at Caltech, and the co-host and producer of the 13-hour Fox Family television series, Exploring the Unknown. Shermer is the author of How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science, Why People Believe Weird Things, Teach Your Child Science, and The Borderlands of Science : Where Sense Meets Nonsense. He is the co-author of Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?; Teach Your Child Math and Mathemagics; and In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace: A Biographical Study on the Psychology of History; and Science Friction.He has appeared on such shows as 20/20, Dateline, Charlie Rose, Tom Snyder, Donahue, Oprah, Sally, Lezza, Unsolved Mysteries, and other shows, as well as on documentaries aired on A & E, Discovery, and The Learning Channel. The Skeptics Society

CHARLES SIMONYI -

He is a Cofounder of Intentional Software Corporation, a software engineering company dedicated to assisting software developers in capturing the tremendous latent value that is usually lost in the design and development process. Simonyi formerly worked as Director of Application Development, Chief Architect, and most recently, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft Corporation. He joined Microsoft in 1981 to start the development of microcomputer application programs and hired and managed teams who developed Microsoft Excel, Multiplan, Word, and other applications. In 1991, he moved on to Microsoft Research where he focused on Intentional Programming, an ecology for abstractions which strives for maximal reuse of components by separating high level intentions from implementation detail. Before coming to Microsoft, Simonyi worked at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center developing Bravo, the first WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor. Born in Budapest, Hungary, Simonyi holds a BS degree in engineering mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford. Further Reading: Intentional Programming: A Talk with Charles Simonyi  & CODE II — Farmer & Simonyi: A Reality Club Dialogue

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Dr. JOHN R. SKOYLES -

He is a Graduate, London School of Economics;Postgraduate, University College London; and Former MRC funded neuroscience researcher who is a researcher in the evolution of human intelligence in the light of recent discoveries about the brain.
His projects and papers include Origins of modern cognition;The alphabet and the origins of Western Civilization; Phones are a vocal imitation code; Left to right of history; Popper studies; Consciousness; Autism; Data-archiving; Self-sustaining situations and money; Greek Art; Memory headers; Brain size IQ and human evolution; Religion and mind viruses; Humanistic morality; Reading and neural networks; Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. While a first-year student at LSE, published a theory of the origins of Western Civilization in Nature. He is the author (with Dorion Sagan) of Up From Dragons: The Evolution of Human Intelligence. &  Up From Dragons Website

LEE SMOLIN -

He is a theoretical physicist, is a founding member and research physicist at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo Canada. He is the author of The Life of The Cosmos and Three Roads to Quantum Gravity. "What is space and what is time? This is what the problem of quantum gravity is about. In general relativity, Einstein gave us not only a theory of gravity but a theory of what space and time are--a theory that overthrew the previous Newtonian conception of space and time. The problem of quantum gravity is how to combine the understanding of space and time we have from relativity theory with the quantum theory, which also tells us something essential and deep about nature."
Further reading: "A Theory of the Whole Universe" in The Third Culture
"A Possible Solution For The Problem Of Time In Quantum Cosmology" by Stuart Kauffman and Lee Smolin "Loop Quantum Gravity: Lee Smolin" &  Perimeter Institute

ELIZABETH SPELKE - Laboratory for Developmental Studies, Harvard University

She teaches at Harvard University, where she is Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative.  She studies the origins and nature of knowledge of objects, persons, space, and number, by assessing behavior and brain function in human infants, children, human adults and non-human animals. A member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and cited by Time Magazine as one of America's Best in Science and Medicine, her honors include the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association and the William James Award of the American Psychological Society.

Further reading: "The Science of Gender and Science" 

MARIA SPIROPULU - Maria Spiropulu's Home Page  & The Official Maria Spiropulu Appreciation Page

She is a physicist, is currently at CERN. She has been working at the Tevatron with UCSB and was an Enrico Fermi Fellow at the EFI/University of Chicago. Spiropulu finished her Ph.D. in physics at Harvard working at the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) onsupersymmetric searches. Previously she worked at CERN's DELPHI and in Berlin's BESSY. Among other research topics she is interested in collider signatures of supersymmetry and extra dimensions.

TOM STANDAGE -

was born in London and studied engineering and computer science at Oxford University. He has covered science and technology for a number of newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Wired and Prospect, and is now Technology Editor at The Economist. He is the author of three books, The Victorian Internet, The Neptune File and The Turk, and takes a particular interest in the social and cultural impact of technology.

PAUL STEINHARDT - Paul Steinhardt's Home Page

He is the Albert Einstein Professor in Science and on the faculty of both the Departments of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. He is one of the leading theorists responsible for inflationary theory. He constructed the first workable model of inflation and the theory of how inflation could produce seeds for galaxy formation. He was also among the first to show evidence for dark energy and cosmic acceleration, introducing the term "quintessence" to refer to dynamical forms of dark energy. With Neil Turok, he has pioneered mathematical and computational techniques which decisively disproved rival theories of structure formation such as cosmic strings. He made leading contributions to inflationary theory and to our understanding of the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe. Hence, the authors not only witnessed but also led firsthand the revolutionary developments in the standard cosmological model caused by the fusion of particle physics and cosmology in the last 20 years. Further reading: The Cyclic Universe: Paul Steinhardt

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BRUCE STERLING - The Bruce Sterling Online Index — a guide to every Bruce Sterling work on the web

He was born in 1954 in Brownsville, Texas. His grandfather was a rancher, his father an engineer. Sterling, purportedly a novelist by trade, actually spends most of his time aimlessly messing with computers, modems, and fax machines. He and his wife Nancy have a daughter Amy, born in 1987. They live in Austin, Texas. 

Sterling sold his first science fiction story in 1976. His solo novels include Schismatrix (1985), Islands In The Net (1988), Heavy Weather (1994), and Holy Fire (1996). In 1986 he edited Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology. His two collections of short stories are Crystal Express (1989) and Globalhead (1992). In 1990 he and William Gibson published their collaborative 'steampunk' novel The Difference Engine. 

1992 saw the appearance of Sterling's first nonfiction book, The Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier, a work of investigative journalism exploring issues in computer crime and civil liberties. Sterling released the entire text of the book on the Internet as non-commercial "literary freeware," and maintains a long-term interest in electronic user rights and free expression. Other nonfiction work by Sterling has appeared in The New York Times, Newsday, Whole Earth Review, Details, Mondo 2000, bOING bOING, and Wired. 

He has also written SF criticism for Science Fiction Eye and Monad, and regular columns for Interzone and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He has been a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America ever since Salman Rushdie was condemned by religious fanatics. 

His latest book is entitled Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 Years.  (adapted from the press bio in Globalhead, with other sources)

LEONARD SUSSKIND - Leonard Susskind Home Page

He has been the Felix Bloch Professor in theoretical physics at Stanford University since 1978. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, recipient of numerous prizes including the science writing prize of the American Institute of Physics for my Scientific American article on black holes.
His contributions to physics include the discovery of string theory, the theory of quark confinement, the development of Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory, the theory of scaling violations in deep inelastic electroproduction, the theory of symmetry breaking sometimes known as "Technicolor theory", the first theories of cosmological baryogenisis apart from Sakharov's work which was unknown in the west, the string theory of black hole entropy, the principle of "black hole complementarity", the holographic principle, the matrix description of M-theory, the introduction of holographic entropy bounds in cosmology, the idea of a string theory "landscape".
He has written numerous articles for the non-specialist including an award winning article on black holes in the Scientific American, a recent rather long "cover story" article on the "Anthropic Landscape of String theory" in the New Scientist and an article on the status of String theory in Physics World.
Further reading:THE LANDSCAPE: A Talk with Leonard Susskind

NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB - Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Home Page

He is an essayist and mathematical trader. He is interested in the epistemology of randomness and the multidisciplinary problems of uncertainty and knowledge, particularly in the large-impact hard-to-predict rare events ("Black Swans"). Taleb is Dean's Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst & Chairman, Empirica LLC. Taleb held senior trading positions with trading houses in New York and London and operated as a floor trader before founding Empirica LLC. His degrees include an MBA from the Wharton School and a Ph.D. from the University of Paris. He is the author of Dynamic Hedging and Fooled by Randomness (2nd Ediition, published April 9th). He considers himself an Edge Activist — a member of the "literary and empirical community of scientists-philosophers".

Links: "LEARNING TO EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED"

TIMOTHY TAYLOR -

He teaches in the Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, UK, and conducts research on the later prehistoric societies of southeastern Europe. He regularly publishes in international journals, including Scientific American, Nature, The American Journal of Archaeology, Antiquity, World Archaeology, and Current Anthropology. He is the author of The Prehistory of Sex: Four Million Years of Human Sexual Culture, and The Buried Soul. He has been instrumental in popularizing archaeology on television, acting as a researcher on several BBC programs including "The Blood of the British" and presenting his work on "Down to Earth" in an episode that won the British Archaeological Award for best popular archaeology on TV. He is currently conducting the excavation of a Bronze Age burial site — Barney's Hole — in a newly discovered cave in the Yorkshire Dales.

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ARNOLD TREHUB -

He is adjunct professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has been the director of a laboratory devoted to psychological and neurophysiological research and is the author of The Cognitive Brain.

ROBERT TRIVERS' - Robert Trivers' Home Page

His scientific work has concentrated on two areas, social theory based on natural selection (of which a theory of self-deception is one part) and the biology of selfish genetic elements (which leads to certain kinds of internal genetic conflicts). His early work—offering unifying theories on reciprocal altruism, parental investment, sexual selection, parent-offspring conflict, the sex ratio, and deceit and self-deception—has now been cited more than 7000 times in the scientific literature. His work on selfish genetic elements has appeared in several articles.
He is the author of Social Evolution, Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers.Trivers is a frequent, featured speaker at international academic meetings (e.g. "Selfish genetic elements and social behavior", 1st William Hamilton Memorial Lecture, 9th International Conference of Behavioral Ecologists, McGill University, Montreal, CA, July 10, 2002, audience of 750) or as University guest (e.g. Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, U of Texas, Austin, April, 2003). He was cited in a special Time issue as one of the 100 greatest thinkers and scientists of the 20th Century. Further reading: Robert Trivers: A FULL-FORCE STORM WITH GALE WINDS BLOWING

J. CRAIG VENTER- Beyond Edge: The J. Craig Venter Institute

He is one of leading scientists of the 21st century for his visionary contributions in genomic research. He is founder and president of the J. Craig Venter Institute and the J. Craig Venter Science Foundation. The Venter Institute conducts basic research that advances the science of genomics; specializes in high volume genome sequencing, and explores the ethical and policy implications of genomic discoveries and advances. The J. Craig Venter Science Foundation supports both the Venter Institute and The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), an affiliated research organization led by Claire M. Fraser, Ph.D. Venter founded TIGR in 1992.

Key Accomplishments:

• While on faculty at the National Institutes of Health, Venter developed expressed sequence tags or EST’s, a revolutionary new strategy for discovering genes.
• In 1992, he founded The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR). There, he and his team decoded the genome of the first free-living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, pioneering the new whole genome shotgun technique.
• In 1998, Venter became the first president of Celera Genomics to sequence the human genome using the whole genome shotgun technique, new mathematical algorithms, and new automated DNA sequencing machines.
• The completed sequence of the human genome was published in February 2001 in the journal, Science. In addition to the human genome, Venter and his team at Celera sequenced the fruit fly, mouse, and rat genomes.
• In 2003, Venter launched a global expedition to obtain and study microbes from environments ranging from the world’s oceans to urban centers. This mission, now in progress, is yielding insights into genes that make up the vast realm of microbial life.

Research at the Venter Institute reflects Venter’s interests in advancing the science of genomics and in applying genomic advances to some of the world’s most vexing public health and environmental challenges. Major research foci include human genomic medicine, environmental and evolutionary genomics (which includes the Venter Institute Global Sampling Mission), biological energy production, synthetic biology, and the intersection between genomics and environmental and energy policy.

ALEXANDER VILENKIN - He is Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University. A theoretical physicist who has been working in the field of cosmology for 25 years, Vilenkin has written over 150 papers and is responsible for introducing the ideas of eternal inflation and quantum creation of the universe from nothing. He received his undergraduate degree in physics in 1971 in the former Soviet Union but was prevented from getting into graduate school because he was blacklisted by the KGB for refusing to cooperate. He emmigrated to the US in 1976, received his Ph.D. at SUNY Buffalo in 1977, and joined the faculty at Tufts in 1978. His work has been featured in numerous newspaper and magazine articles in US, Europe, Russia, and Japan, and in many popular books.

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MARGARET WERTHEIM - She  is a science writer and commentator who has written extensively for magazines, television and radio. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Sciences, New Scientist, Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, LA Weekly and Salon. She is the senior science reviewer for The Australian's Review of Books and writes a monthly column on science and society for The Age newspaper in Melbourne. Wertheim is the author of Pythagoras‚ Trousers and The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet. She was the writer and host of "Faith and Reason", a 1998 PBS documentary special about science and religion. She is a Research Associate to the American Museum of Natural History in New York and a fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.
Wertheim lectures widely about science and society at universities and colleges across America. In 1998 she was the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's official spokeswoman for Science Week. She has been a guest on the PBS programs "Think Tank" and "Between the Lines," on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's "Sunday Morning Live", on ZD-TV's "Silicon Spin," and on ABC Australia's "Two Shot" and "Nightline."

DONALD I. WILLIAMSON - He is a biologist at the Port Erin Marine Station of the University of Liverpool (UK); Author, The Origins of Larvae.

IAN WILMUT - Roslyn Institute, Edinburgh

He is a professor and Head of the Department of Gene Expression and Development at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland, is uniquely qualified both as a pioneer in the science of cloning and as a participant in the public discussions of its possible social and ethical consequences. He is the leader of the team that produced Dolly the sheep in 1996, the first animal to be cloned from an adult cell. Since Dolly's birth, he has become something of an international figure as an expert on cloning techniques, and his laboratory continues to play a leading role in the development of methods for the cloning and genetic modification of animals. Dr. Wilmut's own research centers on the cloning of human embryos to provide stem cells for treatment of degenerative disorders such as diabetes and Parkinson's disease. He has been a frequent advocate of the medical benefits to be derived from this new technology, giving many public lectures on the subject and participating in numerous panel discussions on the potential uses and misuses of cloning. He has also testified in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States before parliamentary and congressional committees considering the legislative regulation of cloning. Dr. Wilmut has a distinguished record of ground-breaking biological research. He obtained a B.Sc. in Agricultural Science at the University of Nottingham before studying at the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1971. His subsequent research in Cambridge led to the birth of the first calf from a frozen embryo — "Frosty" — in 1973. He moved to Edinburgh that year and has worked there ever since. Besides heading a department at the Roslin Institute, he serves as scientific advisor to Geron Bio-Med, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Geron Corp of Menlo Park, California. The objectives of current research are to develop biomedical applications of the nuclear-transfer procedure: these include the provision of modified animal organs and human stem cells for therapy. Ian Wilmut's work has been recognized by many awards and honorary degrees. In 2000, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the highest Scottish society of learning, and in the previous year was made a member of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. Other awards include a fellowship in the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Prize, the Sir John Hammond Memorial Prize of the Society for the Study of Fertility, the Sir William Young Award of the Royal Highland & Agricultural Society of Scotland, and the Research Medal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. In addition to his many research papers, Dr. Wilmut has written a large number of popular articles on the subject of cloning, including pieces for Time, New Scientist, and Scientific American. In 2000, with coauthors Colin Tudge and Keith Campbell, he published The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control, which describes the research leading to the birth of Dolly and initial impressions of the value of cloning techniques. Publicity for the book was shared among the authors; Dr. Wilmut spoke at book publicity events in London, Cardiff, Dublin, Edinburgh, and Munich, and gave many interviews to newspapers, magazines, radio, and television. He plans to publicize the book in his public lectures and articles as well as participate in tours to promote After Dolly: The Uses and Misuses of Cloning.

ELLEN WINNER - Ellen Winner's Home Page

She is a psychologist at Boston College. Her research focuses on two areas of research on cognition in the arts. (1) The study of the creative process in the visual arts, including what broad thinking dispositions are acquired by studying the arts, how students make sense of the arts, the role of arts in their lives and how students learn by reflecting on their portfolios; (2) The study of the effects of music training on children's brain growth (through brain imaging) and on their cognition (musical, spatial, and verbal) and motoric development. This research is based on a view of the arts as cognitive as well as affective, and on the assumption that the arts are a central aspect of human behavior which must be incoporated into our understading of human development and education. She is the author of Gifted Children: Myths and Reality; The Point of Words: Children's Understanding of Metaphor and Irony; Invented Worlds. Ellen Winner's Boston College Web Page;

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ANTON ZEILINGER - Anton Zeilinger's Group Home Page at University of Vienna

He is a physicist who has held teaching and research positions at M.I.T., the Universities of Innsbruck and Oxford, at the Technical Universities of Vienna and Munich, at the College de France in Paris. Presently he is a Professor of Physics at the University of Vienna.
His work has received world-wide attention, most notably his first realization of quantum teleportation and most recently our quantum interference experiments with buckyball molecules, the largest objects ever to have demonstrated quantum phenomena. In terms of research his next goal is to extend the validity of quantum phenomena experimentally to the realm of even larger objects and perhaps even to life itself. He has written a number of articles on quantum physics for a general audience in journals like Scientific American, Nature, Science, Neue Zurcher Zeitung and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

"Quantum Teleportation", cover story, Scientific American,

IAN McEWAN
Novelist; Author, Saturday

ROBERT TRIVERS
Evolutionary biologist, Rutgers University; Author, Natural Selection and Social Theory

RANDOLPH NESSE, M.D.

OLIVER MORTON
Writer; Contributing Editor, Wired, Newsweek International; Author, Mapping Mars.
TOR NØRRETRANDERS
Science Writer; Consultant; Lecturer, Copenhagen; Author, The User Illusion
CAROLYN PORCO
Planetary Scientist; Leader, Cassini Imaging Team; Director, CICLOPS, Space Science Institute, Boulder

RUDY RUCKER
Mathematician, Computer Scientist; CyberPunk Pioneer; Novelist; Author, Infinity and the Mind
CHRISTINE FINN
Archaeologist; Journalist; Writer-in-Residence, University of Bradford; Author, Past Poetic
JONATHAN HAIDT
Psychologist, University of Virginia

SETH LLOYD
Quantum Mechanical Engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MARGARET WERTHEIM
Science writer and Commentator; Author, Pythagoras' Trousers
REBECCA GOLDSTEIN
Philosopher and Novelist, Trinity College; Author, Incompleteness
DAVID MYERS
Psychologist, Hope College; Author, Intuition

MARIA SPIROPULU
Physicist, currently at CERN

LEON LEDERMAN
Physicist and Nobel Laureate; Director Emeritus, Fermilab; Coauthor, The God Particle
MICHAEL SHERMER
Publisher, Skeptic magazine; Columnist, Scientific American; Author Science Friction
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI
Psychologist; Director, Quality of Life Research Center, Claremont Graduate University; Author, Flow

JEAN PAUL SCHMETZ
Economist; Managing Director of CyberLab Interactive Productions GmbH (Burda Media Group

ALAN KAY
Computer Scientist; Personal Computer Visionary, Senior Fellow, HP Labs
ROGER SCHANK
Psychologist & Computer Scientist; Author, Designing World-Class E-Learning
SAM HARRIS
Neuroscience Graduate Student, UCLA; Author, The End of Faith

GREGORY BENFORD
Physicist, UC Irvine; Author, Deep Time

GINO SEGRE
Physicist, University of Pennsylvania; Author, A Matter of Degrees
PIET HUT
Astrophysicist, Institute of Advanced Study
SCOTT ATRAN
Anthropologist, University of Michigan; Author, In God's We Trust

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KAI KRAUSE
Software: Concepts, Artwork & Interface Design; Byteburg Research Lab above the Rhein River
KEITH DEVLIN
Mathematician, Stanford University; Author, The Millennium Problems

ROBERT SAPOLSKY
Neuroscientist, Stanford University, Author, A Primate's Memoir

PHILIP W. ANDERSON
Physicist and Nobel laureate, Princeton University

JANNA LEVIN
Physicist, Columbia University; Author, How The Universe Got Its Spots

STEPHEN KOSSLYN
Psychologist, Harvard University; Author, Wet Mind
HAIM HARARI
Physicist, former President, Weizmann Institute of Science

DONALD HOFFMAN
Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, Visual Intelligence
BRIAN GOODWIN
Biologist, Schumacher College, Devon, UK; Author, How The Leopard Changed Its Spots

ANTON ZEILINGER
ALEXANDER VILENKIN
Physicist; Institute of Cosmology, Tufts University

PAUL STEINHARDT
Albert Einstein Professor of Physics, Princeton University.

CARLO ROVELLI
Physicist; Institut Universitaire de France & University of the Mediterraneum; Author, Quantum Gravity
DANIEL GOLEMAN
Psychologist; Author, Emotional Intelligence

TERRENCE SEJNOWSKI
Computational Neuroscientist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Coauthor, The Computational Brain

ELLEN WINNER
Psychologist, Boston College; Author, Gifted Children
STANISLAS DEHAENE
Cognitive Neuropsychology Researcher, Institut National de la Santé, Paris; Author, The Number Sense
HOWARD RHEINGOLD
Communications Expert; Author, Smart Mobs
PAMELA McCORDUCK
Writer; Author, Machines Who Think

DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF
Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Media Virus

NED BLOCK
Philosopher and Psychologist, New York University

VERENA HUBER-DYSON
Mathematician, Emeritus Professor, Dept of Philosophy, University of Calgary; Author, Gödel's Theorems

W. DANIEL HILLIS
Physicist, Computer Scientist; Chairman, Applied Minds, Inc.; Author, The Pattern on the Stone

ROBERT R. PROVINE
Psychologist and Neuroscientist, University of Maryland; Author, Laughter

PAUL BLOOM
Psychologist, Yale University; Author, Descartes' Baby

DAVID BUSS
Psychologist, University of Texas, Austin; Author, The Evolution of Desire

JORDAN POLLACK
Computer Scientist, Brandeis University

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PHILIP ZIMBARDO
Psychologist, Emeritus Professor, Stanford University; Author, Shyness
ALUN ANDERSON
Editor-in-Chief, New Scientist

ESTHER DYSON
Editor of Release 1.0; Trustee, Long Now Foundation; Author, Release 2.0

J. CRAIG VENTER
Genomics Researcher; Founder & President, J. Craig Venter Science Foundation

SIMON BARON-COHEN
Psychologist, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge University; Author, The Essential Difference
STEPHEN PETRANEK
Editor-in-Chief, Discover Magazine

JOHN BARROW
Cosmologist, Cambridge University; Author, The Infinite Book

JOHN R. SKOYLES
Neuroscience researcher; Coauthor, Up From Dragons
THOMAS METZINGER
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; Author, Being No One
ALEX (SANDY) PENTLAND
Computer Scientist, MIT Media Laboratory

JARON LANIER
Computer Scientist and Musician

RAY KURZWEIL
Inventor and Technologist; Author, The Age of Spiritual Machines

STEWART KAUFFMAN
Biologist, Santa Fe Institute; Author, Investigations

JESSE BERING
Psychologist, University of Arkansas

IRENE PEPPERBERG
Research Scientist, MIT School of Architecture and Planning; Author, The Alex Studies

CLIFFORD PICKOVER
Computer scientist, IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center; Author, Calculus and Pizza
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB
Mathematical trader; Author, Fooled By Randomness

ELIZABETH SPELKE
Psychologist, Harvard University
SUSAN BLACKMORE
Psychologist, Visiting Lecturer, University of the West of England, Bristol; Author The Meme Machine

FREEMAN DYSON
Physicist, Institute of Advanced Study, Author, Disturbing the Universe

DANIEL GILBERT
Psychologist, Harvard University
MARTIN E.P. SELIGMAN
Psychologist, University of Pennsylvania, Author, Authentic Happiness

PAUL DAVIES
Physicist, Macquarie University, Sydney; Author, How to Build a Time Machine

ALISON GOPNIK
Psychologist, UC-Berkeley; Coauthor, The Scientist In the Crib

STEVEN PINKER
Psychologist, Harvard University; Author, The Blank Slate

JOSEPH LEDOUX
Neuroscientist, New York University; Author, The Synaptic Self

LAWRENCE KRAUSS
Physicist, Case Western Reserve University; Author, Atom
MARC D. HAUSER
Psychologist, Harvard University: Author, Wild Minds
WILLIAM CALVIN
Neurobiologist, University of Washington; Author, A Brief History of the Mind
DANIEL C. DENNETT
Philosopher, Tufts University Author, Freedom Evolves
NICHOLAS HUMPHREY
Psychologist, London School of Economics; Author, The Mind Made Flesh
HOWARD GARDNER
Psychologist, Harvard University; Author, Changing Minds
LEE SMOLIN
Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
RUPERT SHELDRAKE
Biologist, London; Author of The Presence of the Past

DR. JEFFREY MISHLOVE

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