A Conversation with Henry Daniels

Clarifications and Specifications . A Conversation with Henry Stapp

HA: You have been actively interested in the relationship between mind and matter for almost half a century. Shortly after receiving your PhD at Berkeley, you went to work with Wolfgang Pauli at the ETH in Zurich, in 1958, the year Pauli died. During that period, you told me, you drafted a manuscript entitled “Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics” which was never published. But its title reappear...

Views of a health policy activist: a conversation with Henry Waxman. Interview by John K. Iglehart.

Philosophy, Art and Critique: A (short) conversation with the “other”

The article sketches a nexus between philosophy, art (poetry) and critique with a particular emphasis on the contribution of classical Muslim philosophers. At the same time, it demonstrates how luminaries such as Omar Khayyam and Ibn Sina, contributed to the renewal of philosophy as a freedom seeking exercise and as a means to pursue happiness through knowledge. In the second&nbs...

A Conversation with Graham Hutchings

G raham Hutchings of Cardiff University made a discovery in 1982 that came to define his career. He predicted that golddespite its reputation for being inertshould be an excellent catalyst for an industrial reaction that makes vinyl chloride monomer (VCM, or chloroethene), used to produce one of the world’s most ubiquitous plastics, polyvinyl chloride (PVC). More than three decades later, Hut...

A Conversation with Manu Prakash

S tanford bioengineer Manu Prakash specializes in frugal science: engineering cheap, easy-to-use diagnostic tools for the developing world, especially remote areas where bulky, electric-powered lab equipment is impractical. In 2014, Prakash debuted the Foldscopea foldable paper microscope designed to detect blood-borne pathogensas well as a chemistry kit-on-a-chip to carry out diagnostic assa...