Best Of

Ken Stanley

June 11, 2015

Ken Stanley Computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher, Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida; he’s on sabbatical this year at the Santa Fe Institute, and he’s co-author with Joel Lehman of the new book, Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective

Ken Stanley

Philip Connors

May 19, 2015

Philip Connors Fire lookout in the Black Range of the Gila National Forest, author of the book Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout, and author of the recent Orion Magazine article, “Beauty in the Burn: Fire and Rebirth in the Forest.”

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Daniel Lieberman

May 4, 2015

Daniel Lieberman Professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University, author of the book, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease, on his talk, “Why Exercise Really is the Best Medicine,” sponsored by the School for Advanced Research.

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