Here you'll find a collection of conversations with some very interesting minds, including (but not limited to) the following:
UNIVERSE
Burton Richter___ Stanford __"What is the Universe made of?"(NOBEL PRIZE)
Dudley Herschbach_Harvard ___"How is 'Nature' defined?" (NOBEL PRIZE)
Roy Glauber ___ Harvard ___"What constitutes 'Information'?"(NOBEL PRIZE)
Martin Perl ____ Stanford __"What defines 'Complexity'?"(NOBEL PRIZE)
Lisa Randall _____ Harvard ______"How do 'Universal Forces' originate?"
Max Tegmark____ M.I.T. _______"What was before the Universe?"
Avi Loeb________ Harvard ______"How can we look back in time?"
Peter Woit _______Columbia _____"What isn't Universe?"
Alexander Vilenkin_ Tufts________ "Do parallel universes' exist?"
Barry Mazur______ Harvard ______"How do numbers apply to the Universe?"
Curtis McMullen _ Harvard __ "How is 'Randomness' defined?" (FIELDS MEDAL)
LIFE
Susumu Tonegawa __M.I.T. _____ "How did 'Life' first begin?" (NOBEL PRIZE)
Arthur Kornberg __ Stanford _ "Can life be seen as chemistry?" (NOBEL PRIZE)
James Hanken_____Harvard _____ "How many types of life are there?"
Richard Losick_____Harvard _____ "What are the smallest living things?"
Matthew Scott_____ Stanford _____ "What traits do living things share?"
Deborah Gordon____Stanford _____ "How does life pattern itself?"
Lucy Shapiro______ Stanford _____ "Can the smallest life forms think?"
Francisco Ayala____ UC Irvine _____ "Why is 'Evolution' daunting?"
David Haig______ Harvard _____ "Do genes truly compete?"
Martin Nowak_____ Harvard _____ "Does cooperation promote life?"
Andrew Knoll_____ Harvard _____ "How fragile is Earth-based life?"
HUMANS
Steven Pinker______Harvard _____ "How did 'Language' evolve?"
Eric Kandel______ Columbia _____ "What defines 'Memory'?" (NOBEL PRIZE)
Mahzarin Banaji____Harvard _____ "Do our minds purposely deceive us?"
Mike Merzenich____ UCSF _____ "Can we strengthen our brains?"
Carol Dweck ______ Stanford _____ "What is the 'Growth Mind Set'?"
Mark Bear________ M.I.T. _____ "Why does memory matter?"
Steve Kosslyn _____ Harvard _____ "How do we visualize ideas?"
Earl Miller _______ M.I.T. _____ "Where do thoughts originate?"
Howard Gardner___ Harvard _____ "What is 'Multiple Intelligence'?"
Rebecca Goldstein __ Radcliffe _____ "What constitutes a 'Big Idea'?"
Bill Mobley _______ Stanford _____ "When does information break down?"
Marc Hauser _____ Harvard _____ "Can 'Morality' be quantified?"
CIVILIZATION
Noam Chomsky ___ M.I.T. _____ "What are 'Power Systems'?"
Donald Kennedy ___ Science Journal __ "Where does 'Science' meet 'Society'?"
Alan Dershowitz ___ Harvard _____ "What is 'Law'?"
Kenneth Arrow____ Stanford __"What is 'Economics'?" (NOBEL PRIZE)
Edmund Phelps_ Columbia "Can we see patterns in civilization?" (NOBEL PRIZE)
Abbas Milani ______Stanford _____ "What is a 'Political Revolution'?"
Fred Von Loehman__ EFF _____ "How did the Internet begin?"
James Surowiecki __ NY Times _____ "What is 'Collective Intelligence'?"
Dalton Conley _____ NYU _____ "What is 'Free Will'?"
Elizabeth Warren ___Harvard _____ "When do financial systems fail?"
Herbert Kelman____ Harvard _____ "What is 'Effective Conflict Resolution'?"
Michael Jackson____Harvard _____ "What is 'Saving vs. Understanding'?"
Larry Diamond ____ Stanford _____ "What defines 'Democracy'?"
Iara Peng ________ People for American Way "Is democracy important'?"
Marc Feldman_____ Stanford _____ "How do populations 'drift'?"
Terry Karl ________ Stanford _____ "What defines 'Human Rights'?"
David Perkins _____ Harvard _____ "Is civilization truly advancing?"
WHAT's NEXT?…
W.H.K. Panofsky____SLAC _____ "Will 'Nukes' end human existence?"
Harry Lewis___ ____Harvard _____ "How is information changing?"
Gilberto Gil____ ___ Brazil _____ "What defines 'Globalization'?"
Mac Maharaj__ __ South Africa ___ "What is the 'Knowledge Revolution'?"
John Perry Barlow__ EFF _____ "Where does 'mind' begin and end?"
Michael Oppenheimer Princeton"What defines 'Environment'?"(NOBEL PR.- IFCC)
George Church_____ Harvard _____ "What is 'Personal Genomics'?"
Lene Hau_________ Harvard _____ "Can light be controlled?"
Sara Seager___ ____ M.I.T. _____ "Will other life be discovered?"
Neil Gershenfeld____ M.I.T. __ "What is the 'Digital Fabrication Revolution'?"
Rodney Brooks _____ M.I.T. _____ "Will man and machine merge?"
Rudolph Jaenisch ___Whitehead _____ "What will replace stem cells?"
Steve Schneider Stanford How can the climate debate change?" (NOBEL PR.- IFCC)
Terry Root Stanford__"What is the 'natural world'?"_(NOBEL PRIZE- IFCC)
Pardis Sabeti__ ____ Harvard _____ "What 'Human Puzzles' remain?
John Hennessy _____Stanford _____ "What is the future of education?"
Rosalind Picard_____M.I.T. _____ "Can technology 'feel'?
Seth Lloyd________ M.I.T. _____ "What is technology's 'vanishing point'?"