The Neha Anwar Podcast

Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His newest book is Excellent Advice for Living, a book of 450 modern proverbs for good living. He is co-chair of The Long Now Foundation, a membership organization that champions long-term thinking and acting as a good ancestor to future generations. And he i...

J. Arvid Ågren is a Research Associate at the Lerner Research Institute at the Cleveland Clinic and an Affiliated Researcher at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. His works focuses on the evolution of within-organism conflicts, including selfish genetic elements and cancers. He also works on foundations of selfish gene theory and is the author of  The Gene’s-Eye View of Evoluti...

Neil Shubin is a renowned American Palaeontologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer. He is best known for his groundbreaking discoveries in the field of palaeontology and his contributions to our understanding of the evolutionary history of life on Earth. Shubin has dedicated his career to studying the fossil record and the processes that drive evolution, with a particular focus...

Neil Fraser Johnson is a highly respected English physicist with a wealth of experience in complexity theory and complex systems. He is widely recognized for his pioneering work in a variety of interdisciplinary fields, including quantum information, econophysics, and condensed matter physics. Throughout his career, Johnson has been at the forefront of exploring and explaining the intricate relati...

N.J. Enfield is a prominent linguist and Chair of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. He is known for his research in linguistic anthropology, exploring the relationship between language, culture, and social interaction. Enfield has conducted extensive fieldwork in various parts of the world and has published his work in numerous scholarly journals and edited volumes. He has received several...

Michael Levin is an American biologist and a leading figure in the field of regenerative medicine. He received his undergraduate degree from Tufts University in 1988. Levin went on to earn a PhD in Genetics from Harvard University in 1995. He is currently the director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University and a professor in the Department of Biology. Levin's research focuses on und...

Jody Azzouni is a highly regarded American philosopher, currently at the philosophy department at Tufts University. Having an unusual background in poetry, and fiction, he is known for his unique perspective on a range of philosophical issues, as well as for exhibiting a distinct literary sensibility in his philosophical writing. Azzouni has published extensively in leading academic journals, and...

Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph. D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph. D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European O...

Indre Viskontas is a highly accomplished Lithuanian-Canadian neuroscientist and operatic soprano. With a background in both science and music, she is known for her unique perspective on the relationship between the brain and the arts. As a neuroscientist, Viskontas has dedicated her career to understanding the workings of the brain and how it processes information. In parallel, she has pursued her...

David Stasavage is the Dean for the Social Sciences, the Julius Silver Professor in NYU’s Department of Politics, and an Affiliated Professor in NYU’s School of Law. He is the author of The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today, published by Princeton University Press in June 2020. This book provides a new understanding of early democracy in multiple world regions...

Justin Clarke-Doane is a philosopher at Columbia University.  He is also a Periodic Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK, and an Adjunct Research Associate at Monash University, Australia.  His work centres on metaphysical and epistemological problems surrounding apparently a priori, or 'armchair', inquiry...

Derek Leben is an Associate Teaching Professor of Ethics at the Tepper School of Business. His research focuses on principles of fairness and weighing harms from the perspective of a contractarian ethical theory, and how organizations can implement these principles into standards for AI and autonomous systems. He received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2012, and taught ethics at the Univ...

Roderick Graham is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the City University of New York Graduate Center. Dr. Graham's academic work focuses on cybercrime and online deviant behaviour. He also enjoys communicating sociological insight to the public as "The Neighborhood Sociologist...

Lee Cronin is a Regius Chair of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. He is a prominent researcher in the field of chemistry, known for his work on the origins of life and the development of complex chemical systems. With over 20 years of experience in his field, Cronin has made significant contributions to the scientific community and is widely recognized for his expe...

Michael Dine is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California at Santa Cruz, and one of the world’s leading physicists. He has been a Sloan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and in 2010 was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dine is a recipient, with Ann Nelson, of th...

Leidy Klotz is an American scientist and author who studies and writes about design and problem-solving. He is a professor of engineering and architecture at the University of Virginia. Klotz has published in scientific journals including Nature and Science and in other publications such as The Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and The Globe and Mail. He is also the author of...

Sean B. Carroll is an American evolutionary developmental biologist, author, educator and executive producer. He is a distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland and professor emeritus of molecular biology and genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He leads the Department of Science Education of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the largest private supporter of sc...

Edward Watts received his PhD in History from Yale University in 2002. His research interests center on the intellectual and religious history of the Roman Empire and the early Byzantine Empire. His first book, City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria (University of California Press, 2006), explains how the increasingly Christian upper class of the late antique world used a combinatio...

Kate Adamala is a synthetic biologist and a professor of genetics at the University of Minnesota. Her work includes contributions to the field of astrobiology, synthetic cell engineering and biocomputing. Kate's research on prebiotic RNA replication provided an experimental scenario for the RNA world hypothesis of the origin of life. She has worked on constructing liposome bioreactor synthetic cel...

Frank Lantz is a game designer with a focus on exploring emerging technology to create new kinds of gameplay. His most recent games include Universal Paperclips, Hey Robot, and Babble Royale. He is the Founding Chair of the NYU Game Center, the co-founder of Area/Code Games (acquired by Zynga in 2011), and the co-founder of Everybody House Games. He has taught game design for over 20 years at New...

Simon DeDeo is an associate professor in Social and Decision Sciences and the William S. Dietrich II Career Development Chair in Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He was previously affiliated with Complex Systems and the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University. Prior to that, Simon was an Omidyar Fellow at SFI. Sim...

Donald Hoffman is a Cognitive Neuroscientist who received his PhD from MIT, and joined the faculty of the University of California, Irvine in 1983, where he is a Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences. He is an author of over 100 scientific papers and three books, including Visual Intelligence, and his new book, The Case Against Reality. He received a Distinguished Scientific Award of the Americ...

 Leroy "Lee" Cronin, the Regius Chair of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and appointed to the Regius Chair of Chemistry in 2013. He was previously the Gardiner Chair, appointed April 2009. A professor of chemistry, nanoscience and chemical complexity, Lee Cron...

Dr Craig Heller is a professor of Biology at Stanford University. He holds a PhD in biology from Yale University. Craig is a physiologist and biologist at Stanford and is a world expert on the science of temperature regulation. Dr Heller has a wide breadth of knowledge of biology. He conducts extensive research in exercise physiology, including examining fatigue in athletes and has developed an in...

Mustafa Abbas is an award-winning Emirati writer and director. His film  Sunset State played in seven countries including the Dubai International Film Festival, where it premiered at. With his distinct style of filmmaking, Abbas has played a big part in developing the local film scene going back more than a decade. He is known as one of the pioneers in the Emirati film industry and has contri...