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- Brian Greene — Reimagining the Cosmos
A thrilling, mind-bending view of the cosmos and of the human adventure of modern science. In a conversation ranging from free will to the meaning of the Higgs boson particle, physicist Brian Greene suggests the deepest scientific realities are hidden from human senses and often defy our best intuition.
51 min - [Unedited] Brian Greene with Krista TippettBrian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University. He is also co-founder of the World Science Festival. His books include "The Elegant Universe," "The Fabric of the Cosmos," and "The Hidden Reality." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Brian Greene — Reimagining the Cosmos." Find more at onbeing.org.1 hr 25 min
- [Unedited] Andrew Revkin with Krista TippettAndrew Revkin is Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding at Pace University. His blog at The New York Times is called Dot Earth. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Ursula King, Andrew Revkin, and David Sloan Wilson — Teilhard de Chardin's "Planetary Mind" and Our Spiritual Evolution." Find more at onbeing.org.38 min
- [Unedited] David Sloan Wilson with Krista TippettDavid Sloan Wilson is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University in New York. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Ursula King, Andrew Revkin, and David Sloan Wilson — Teilhard de Chardin's "Planetary Mind" and Our Spiritual Evolution." Find more at onbeing.org.1 hr 42 min
- Ursula King, Andrew Revkin, and David Sloan Wilson — Teilhard de Chardin's "Planetary Mind" and Our Spiritual Evolution
The coming stage of evolution, Teilhard de Chardin said, won't be driven by physical adaptation but by human consciousness, creativity, and spirit. We visit with his biographer Ursula King, and we experience his ideas energizing New York Times Dot Earth blogger Andrew Revkin and evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson.
51 min - [Unedited] Ursula King with Krista TippettUrsula King is Professor Emerita of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Bristol. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Ursula King, Andrew Revkin, and David Sloan Wilson — Teilhard de Chardin's "Planetary Mind" and Our Spiritual Evolution." Find more at onbeing.org.1 hr 31 min
- Ursula King, Andrew Revkin, and David Sloan Wilson — Teilhard de Chardin's Planetary Mind and Our Spiritual EvolutionThe coming stage of evolution, Teilhard de Chardin said, won't be driven by physical adaptation but by human consciousness, creativity, and spirit. We visit with his biographer Ursula King, and we experience his ideas energizing New York Times Dot Earth blogger Andrew Revkin and evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson.52 min
- Patrick Bellegarde-Smith — Living VodouThe word "Vodou" evokes images of sorcery and sticking pins into dolls. In fact, it's a living tradition wherever Haitians are found based on ancestral religions in Africa. We walk through this mysterious tradition — one with dramatic rituals of trances and dreaming and of belief in spirits, who speak through human beings, with both good and evil potential.51 min
- [Unedited] Patrick Bellegarde-Smith with Krista TippettPatrick Bellegarde-Smith is a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and author of many books about Vodou. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Patrick Bellegarde-Smith — Living Vodou." Find more at onbeing.org.1 hr 25 min
- Marilynne Robinson and Marcelo Gleiser — The Mystery We AreWhat do a fiction writer and an astrophysicist have in common? Marilynne Robinson and Marcelo Gleiser connect the dots between the cosmos, our minds, and all the ways we discover the story of where we came from.52 min
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The premier theologion of early America, Jonathan Edwards, explores the futility of "absolute nothing" and the the existance of a "necessary eternal being."