Category: General Interests

Tim Errington is the Director of Research at the Center for Open Science where he leads the centers’ metascience research efforts. He and his team also conduct evaluations of initiatives intended to increase the openness, rigor, and reproducibility of research, such as Open Science Badges and Registered Reports.

Velina Tchakarova is the Director at the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES) in Vienna, Austria. Her work includes research, consulting and lectures on Global System Transformation and geostrategy of global actors, particularly the EU's role in Eastern Europe.

Geoff is the Founder and Executive Director of Leverage Research, a research institute that studies and supports early stage science.

Dr. Langland-Hassan is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati.

We spoke with quantified self cofounder Gary Wolf on self-tracking, the philosophy of science, and learning about yourself through personal data.

Philip Rosedale is a serial entrepreneur whose lifelong passion for using virtual technology to connect people led to his founding Second Life in 1999.

Geoffrey West is a theoretical physicist whose primary interests are in fundamental questions across physics, biology and the social sciences.

Kurtis Lockhart is a PhD candidate at Oxford, and Head of Research at the Charter Cities Institute. His research interests focus on the political economy of development.

Marshall Brain is a futurist, speaker, and professor of entrepreneurship who founded HowStuffWorks.com. He joins us on the podcast to talk about these subjects and his new book on existential risk.