Reason with Science

This episode is with Martin Rees. Prof. Rees is a cosmologist and astrophysicist at Cambridge University  and  co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. He was  President of the Royal Society. His latest book is 'On the future: Prospects for humanity'. In this conversation we talk about the evidence for big bang, aliens,  threats to humanity, space travel and...

This episode is with Frans De Waal. He is a professor in Emory  University's psychology department and the Director of the Living Links  Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He is the author  of several popular books like 'Chimpanzee politics', The age of empathy'  and 'The bonobo and the atheist'. His latest book is 'Different: gender  through the eyes o...

This is a conversation with Dr. Robert Lustig. Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist with expertise in metabolism, obesity, and nutrition.  He’s the Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at UCSF. His latest book is Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine. In this conversation we talk about role of processed food in the ch...

This is second part of the conversation with Prof. Alice Hughes. She is  working at XTBG in China. Her work focuses on understanding patterns of  biodiversity and drivers of biodiversity change, with an aim to form  more rigorous & appropriate conservation. In this conversation we  discuss about what are bats, evolution of bats, importance of the bats  for the biodiver...

Michael Strevens is a professor of Philosophy at New York University. He  is specialized on the philosophy of science. His major interests  include explanation, complex systems, probability, confirmation, the  social structure of science, and causation; the psychology of concepts;  and the philosophical applications of cognitive science. He is the  author of The Knowledge...

This is the conversation with Prof. Alice Hughes. She is working at XTBG  in China. Her work focuses on understanding patterns of biodiversity  and drivers of biodiversity change, with an aim to form more rigorous  & appropriate conservation. In this conversation we discuss about  what is evolution, how it works, why it is important to study, Evolution  vs intelligent...

Desmond Morris is a renowned zoologist, surrealist painter, writer and a  TV presenter from UK. He is 93 years old now and still working with the  same passion. In this rather long discussion, we covered various  topics, like: His early life, growing up during world war II, his  interest in zoology and surrealism, writing one of the top 100  bestsellers "The naked ape", Hu...

This  episode is with Frans De Waal. He is a professor in Emory University's  psychology department and the Director of the Living Links Center at the  Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He is the author of several  popular books like 'Chimpanzee politics', The age of empathy' and 'The  bonobo and the atheist'. His latest book is 'Different: gender through  the...