Caitlin McShea is that special kind of curious that you cannot help but be inspired by, and she has the intellect to spread that curiosity over any domain. For the past ten years in roles varying from director of art galleries, curator and coordinator of exhibits, and now as a program manager at the Santa Fe Institute, she has been giving language, image, and concreteness to some of the most imaginative and futuristic thoughts of our age.

Show Notes:

• Life's Edge Carl Zimmer (03:00)
• Four Lost Cities Annalee Newitz
• Our conversation on the Alien Crash Site podcast - youtube or audio (06:10)
• The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) (07:00)
• Interplanetary Project (16:50)
• 'Wicked' problems (24:45)
• What is complexity? (25:30)
• Murray Gell-Mann (26:50)
• Gilles Deleuze (27:30)
• Valery Plame (34:00)
• James Drake (35:00)
• Feynman diagrams (35:10)
• David Krakauer (36:30)
• Jorge Luis Borges (39:20)
• How Emotions are Made Lisa Feldman Barrett (41:40)
• Two types of entropy in communication - Vanessa Ferdinand (50:00)
• Ted Chiang "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" (52:30)
• Roadside Picnic the Strugatsky Brothers (53:00)
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami (58:00)
• Lightning Round (59:00)
  • Book: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Passion: Visual arts
  • Heart sing: Charcuterie
  • Screwed up: Education
• Find guest online:
  • Twitter: @SantaFeMcShea
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series  
  • Caitlin’s playlist