A Conversation with Tom Meyer

Perspectives of an errant economist: a conversation with Tom Schelling. 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...

QnAs with Tom Insel.

When it comes to uncovering how the brain develops across the human lifespan, “change” may be the key word. Mounting evidence from molecular atlases of brain development suggests that the midgestational human brain markedly differs from the adult brain, undergoing wholesale transformation over time by tuning the timing and location of gene expression (1). “In fact, so many genes are translated ...

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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...