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Steve Paulson

Steve Paulson is the executive producer of Wisconsin Public Radio’s nationally syndicated show To the Best of Our Knowledge. He’s the author of Atoms and Eden: Conversations on Religion and Science. You can find his podcast about psychedelics, Luminous, here.

Roger Penrose On Why Consciousness Does Not Compute

The emperor of physics defends his controversial theory of mind.

April 27, 2017

The Spiritual, Reductionist Consciousness of Christof Koch

What the neuroscientist is discovering is both humbling and frightening him.

March 31, 2017

My Life with the Physics Dream Team

Freeman Dyson on working with the greatest physicists of the 20th century.

December 1, 2016

Beauty Is Physics’ Secret Weapon

A Nobel laureate maps his path to discovery.

January 11, 2016

The Philosopher Who Says We Should Play God

Why ethical objections to interfering with nature are too late.

August 31, 2015

About Your Skin

What you should know about your body’s biggest organ.

June 25, 2015

Ingenious: David Krakauer

The systems theorist explains what’s wrong with standard models of intelligence.

April 16, 2015

To Understand Religion, Think Football

Sacred beliefs likely arose out of prehistoric bonding and rituals.

September 2, 2014

Monsters, Marvels, and the Birth of Science

How the unlikely and unexplainable, strange and terrifying, spawned the age of science.

July 25, 2013

The Cosmopolitan Ape

Empathy, morality, community, culture—apes can have it all!

April 22, 2013