Sep 1, 2022
Seemay Chou talks about the process of building a new research organization, ticks, hiring and managing entrepreneurial scientists, non-model organisms, institutional experiments and a lot more!
Seemay is the co-founder and CEO of Arcadia Science — a research and development company focusing on underesearched...
Aug 2, 2022
William Bonvillian does a deep dive about his decades of research on how DARPA works and his more recent work on advanced manufacturing.
William is a Lecturer at MIT and the Senior Director of Special Projects,at MIT’s Office of Digital Learning. Before joining MIT he spent almost two decades as a senior policy...
Jul 2, 2022
In this conversation, Adam Falk and I talk about running research programs with impact over long timescales, creating new fields, philanthropic science funding, and so much more.
Adam is the president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which was started by the eponymous founder of General Motors and has been funding...
May 30, 2022
In this conversation, Semon Rezchikov and I talk about what other disciplines can learn from mathematics, creating and cultivating collaborations, working at different levels of abstraction, and a lot more!
Semon is currently a postdoc in mathematics at Harvard where he specializes in symplectic geometry. He has an...
Jan 18, 2022
Professor Michael Strevens discusses the line between scientific knowledge and everything else, the contrast between what scientists as people do and the formalized process of science, why Kuhn and Popper are both right and both wrong, and more.
Michael is a professor of Philosophy at New York University where he...