Podcasts about Stuart Firestein

What if knowing less could actually make you more? In this riveting conversation, Ben Owden sits down with Dr. Stuart Firestein, former Chair of Columbia University's Biological Sciences, neuroscientist extraordinaire, and author of Ignorance: How It Drives Science and Failure: Why Science Is Successful. Far from being gloomy topics, Stuart shows us how ignorance and failure are the secret engines of creativity and innovation, both in the lab and in life.In This Episode, We Explore:Why “Not Knowing” Is Your Greatest Superpower – Stuart argues that curiosity lives between what we know and what we don't. Learn how “negative capability” (a willingness to tolerate uncertainty) is the birthplace of every major discovery.How Failure Uncovers Hidden Possibilities – From Marie Curie to Richard Feynman, see why a “failed experiment” can be more valuable than hitting a bull's-eye. (Hint: Nature's top predators in nature only succeed 25% of the time!)The Art of Asking Better Questions – Forget “hypothesis‐driven” experiments: discover why wandering in the dark sometimes, not just under the lamp post, is where the real magic happens.Living with Revision — Why “Total Truth” Doesn't Exist – What Newton, Einstein, and Keats taught Stuart about refining knowledge instead of clinging to “one final answer.”Practical Tips for Embracing Ignorance & Failure Today – From “failing better” to scheduling a daily “dark-room” hour, Stuart shares concrete ways to rewire your mindset—whether you're a scientist, a middle manager, or just someone who wants to do more creative work.Get a copy of Failure: Why Science Is So SuccessfulImportant Links*Join Thrive in the Middle Today!*Book WhyLead to Train Your Teams*Explore Our ServicesSocial Media*Ben Owden's LinkedIn*Ben Owden's Twitter 

Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons Newsletter and the post introducing Great AskingShow Notes:Sara Hendren's Origins Conversationstart of a living conversation (05:20)Ignorance by Stuart Firestein (06:00)questions are the oxygen of imagination (08:00)curiosity is a moral muscle (10:10)The Division of Cognitive Laborby Philip Kitcher (09:20)Sara's substack (10:40)Howard Gardner (11:20)Participatory readiness Danielle Allen (16:40)Living the Questions with Krista (23:30)questions and a state of receptivity (30:20)Sara's blog on voice memos (37:00)vagus nerve (37:00)neuroplasticity (37:30)Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (45:00)The Virtues of Limits by David McPherson (53:30)the healing is in the return - Sharon Salzberg (55:00)Proust QuestionnaireLightning Round (57:30):Overrated virtue: (Krista) independence; (Sara) fortitude as opposed to true courageWords or phrases to retire: (Krista) losing generative to AI; (Sara) communityValuing in friends: (Krista) laughter; (Sara) longevityLowest depth of misery: (Krista) when imagination shuts down; (Sara) tyranny of inwardness and the lie of aloneness (St. Augustine) Find Sara and Krista online:SaraKristaLogo artwork by Cristina GonzalezMusic by Agasthya Pradhan Shenoy (Swelo)

Stuart Firestein, a professor of biological sciences at Columbia University, walks us through his study of the vertebrate olfactory system. Professor Firestein is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. With a unique career trajectory, Professor Firestein shares his thoughts on the current state of science education and imparts valuable advice for aspiring scientists. Do not miss this thought-provoking discussion on the past, present, and future of the scientific field.

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TEMPORADA 1/2023 __________________________________________________________ Título Libro (Español): Ignorancia y cómo se mueve la ciencia.  Título Libro (Inglés - Original): Ignorance: How It Drives Science. Autor(a): Stuart Firestein Revisor: Alejandro Romero. TEMAS TRATADOS  La ciencia no debe conceptualizarse únicamente como una colección de hechos. Estos hechos son el verdadero punto de inicio. La mayoría de nosotros tenemos una falsa impresión de la ciencia como un método seguro, deliberado y paso a paso para encontrar las cosas y hacer las cosas. IDEA PRINCIPAL: El autor enfatiza el rol que tiene la ignorancia en su aceptación benigna para impulsar a la ciencia y a la investigación, la mayoría de las veces, la ciencia es como buscar un gato negro en una habitación oscura, y puede que no haya un gato en la habitación. ARGUMENTO DEL AUTOR(A): La ignorancia es el mejor motor para el desarrollo de la ciencia. __________________________________________________________ No olvides comentarnos: ¿Qué aprendizaje te llevas del episodio? Ya sea en la caja de preguntas y respuestas en Spotify o en un post a través de redes sociales, puedes etiquetarnos como @bookmovementco para que sigamos la conversación.   Disfruta el episodio :)   ÍNDICE  (00:00:00) Introducción, presentación y bienvenida del invitado revisor. (00:00:58) Inicio Revisión y estructura del Libro. (00:02:13) Breve resumen del autor. ¿Quién fue Stuart Firestein?. (00:05:34) Argumentos planteados para apoyar la tesis. (00:12:03) Ejemplo: ¿Conoces tus números?. (00:14:57) Ejemplo: El hombre que rompió la matemática. (00:17:07) Conclusiones del Libro. (00:18:26) Inicio de las preguntas. (00:19:19) P1: ¿Cuál fue tu primer encuentro con este libro y porqué decidiste leerlo? (00:20:51) P2: ¿Qué te sorprendió más sobre la forma en que la ignorancia impulsa la ciencia según el autor? (00:24:07) P3: ¿Cómo describirías el papel de la ignorancia en el proceso científico después de haber leído este libro? (00:29:34) P4: ¿La ciencia es una estructura consistente de hechos como unidad fundamental? (00:36:51) P5: ¿Recomendarías este texto estudiantes que están empezando sus estudios en las carreras STEM? (00:39:03) P6: ¿El autor discute algunos ejemplos sobre cómo la ignorancia también puede impulsar la ciencia de manera negativa o de manera nefasta? (00:43:17) P7: ¿Cuál fue el ejemplo más convincente en tu opinión que utilizó el autor para ilustrar como la ignorancia puede ser una fuerza impulsora de la ciencia? (00:55:20) P8: ¿Qué preguntas o ideas interesantes surgieron en usted después de leer el libro? (00:58:38) Palabras finales. (00:59:56) Créditos Equipo SBM.

Neurobiologist Stuart Firestein, one of the world's leading experts on olfaction, joins Bernard Baars to discuss the similarities and surprising differences of smell and taste in relation to vision, hearing and somatosensory systems, like touch. The olfactory system presents us with alternative views of how sensory stimuli are parsed in the brain and how we integrate those into some sort of conscious worldview.   Dr. Stuart Firestein specializes in the olfactory system ⎯ why and how our brains and noses sense smell. Stuart is the former chair of Columbia University's Department of Biological Sciences and a neurobiology professor, where his laboratory studies the vertebrate olfactory system, possibly the best chemical detector on the face of the planet.   Stuart is devoted to the history, evolution, and future of science. Author of "Ignorance: How it Drives Science" and "Failure: Why Science is so Successful” (OUP), his books cast science as an unending quest to illuminate ignorance and failure as an essential component in that process.   Talking Points 0:00 - Intro 3:59 - The Ups and Downs of Consciousness in Science  12:30 - Stuart's Journey from Theater to Neuroscience 19:14 - Is Olfaction an Idiosyncratic or Unique Brain System? 25:30 - The Connection Between Smell, Memory & Emotion 34:37 - The Immune System Recognizes a Repertoire of Molecules Just Like the Olfactory System 42:51 - The Regenerative Capabilities of Olfactory Neurons 51:48 - Are Olfactory Receptors Like Other Chemoreceptors? 01:02:34 - The Integration of Olfactory Stimuli into a Chemical Panorama 01:10:24 - Is Olfaction a Low- or High-Dimensional Input System? 01:16:56 - How to Improve Science Learning 01:22:25 - The Value of Ignorance and Failure in Science   Producer: Natalie Geld   Links — Website and Social Media — Website: https://bernardbaars.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BernardJBaars Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BernardJBaars/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernardjbaars/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BernardBaarsOnConsciousness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/baarslab/?hl=en   — Stuart Firestein — Website: http://stuartfirestein.com/ Columbia University: https://www.biology.columbia.edu/people/firestein Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq0_zGzSc8g Books: - Ignorance: How It Drives Science: Buy at Amazon - Failure: Why Science Is So Successful: Buy at Amazon

Doing science reminds Stuart Firestein of an old saying: “It's very difficult to find a black cat in a dark room. Especially when there is no cat.” Before studying biology and becoming a professor at Columbia University in New York, Stuart worked for many years in the theater. In this episode, he talks about how he doesn't miss the creativity or the spirit of the theater, as he finds all of that in science. For Stuart, ignorance and creativity are two horses pulling the same wagon of science, and lab meetings are center stage for both. To make progress, Stuart finds pluralism of enormous value – and crucial to pluralism is the ability to fail. For more information on Night Science, visit https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/night-science .

In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes talk to social entrepreneur Anna Anderson. Anna is the founder and CEO of Kindred, an independent members club in West London, and Cellar at Kindred, a public café, counter and bar; dedicated to bringing the ethos, spirit and values found in the members club to the wider community. Previously a qualified social worker, Anna has a passion for building community, and strengthening human connections in a lonely world and is on a mission to build better, more human-centred housing.0.00 Introduction4.12 Can you give us your perspective on the power of business to achieve social change?6.35 You have a background as a social worker, working in child protection, domestic violence, children in gangs and more. How did this inform your concept of community and the role that business can and should play in the world?10.57 Tell us a little about Kindred and how does it work?14.00 You started two years pre pandemic. How did Covid impact the business model?16.05 A lot of people might have walked away. Where does your passion come from?18.55 Staying with the challenge of balancing the economics and the purpose. Tell me what you've learnt about the shared values that you have to create between your team, your audience, the community. What are the shared values that hold this together for you?23.13 Regardless of Covid, what value is most likely to be compromised when trying to pursue your commercial viability and sustainability? 25.37 How do you make people aware of your community?28.23 Do you have a vision for scaling beyond West London?30.51 What lessons have you been learning about yourself as a leader?34.19 How do you see how you create, capture and deliver value in your business model tying in to the problem you're solving?39.17 What's a word you might have for a listener who is nowhere near West London but is really compelled by what you're saying and is acknowledging to themselves the idea of loneliness while they have no suitable space near them. What might they do?45.36 Your point about how somebody can be in a great relationship and have great colleagues but can still feel lonely. You gave some diagnostic questions, but is there anything else that would help people to come to terms with what they're feeling?49.54 Is there anything else that we should be talking about or any messages that you would like to give to our audience? Social: Instagram           @evolvingleader LinkedIn             The Evolving Leader Podcast Twitter               @Evolving_LeaderYoutube               Evolving Leader Recommended listening:Unpredicting with Stuart Firestein  (full episode on Apple Podcasts)What is Unpredicting with Stuart Firestein (YouTube clip)The Evolving Leader is researched, written and presented by Jean Gomes and Scott Allender with production by Phil Kerby. It is an Outside production.

There's a bit of a theme when it comes to Stuart Firestein's books, with titles like “Failure: Why Science Is So Successful,” and “Ignorance: How It Drives Science.”Stuart Firestein is Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University where he and his colleagues study the vertebrate olfactory system. He says his lab is dedicated to answering that fundamental human question: How do I smell?In this episode, Stuart tells us about his lab, what it means to succeed in science, failure vs. error, and if there is a science of serendipity.Episode Quotes:On teaching science When I go to a conference or a meeting, fellow scientists, we don't talk about what we know, we talk about what we don't know, what we'd like to know. And so I thought, well, maybe that's what we should start teaching these kids a little bit of the, what we don't know, because that's really where, the cool science is. That's really where science happens. Failure is interestingI like to see experiments succeed now and again, but they're often more interesting when they don't quite succeed the way you think they would. On experiments & failure An experiment that's not replicated is often conflated with fraud, and those are two different things.Show Links:Resources:Principles of Neural Science (Principles of Neural Science (Kandel)) 5th EditionAntónio Egas Moniz (1874–1955): Lobotomy pioneer and Nobel laureate - PMCGuest Profile:Faculty Profile at Columbia UniversityFaculty Profile at Santa Fe InstituteStuart Firestein's WebsiteStuart Firestein on LinkedInStuart Firestein on TEDTalkHis Work:Stuart Firestein on Google ScholarFirestein LabFailure: Why Science Is So SuccessfulIgnorance: How It Drives Science

Dr. Stuart Firestein, Columbia U. neuroscientist, author of “Ignorance” and “Failure” joins us to discuss to compare and contrast murder mysteries with the public perception of how science gets done!

Some people say we're all in the same boat; others say no, but we're all in the same storm. Wherever you choose to focus the granularity of your inquiry, one thing is certain: we are all embedded in, acting on, and being acted upon by the same nested networks. Our fates are intertwined, but our destinies diverge like weather forecasts, hingeing on small variations in contingency: the circumstances of our birth, the changing contexts of our lives. Seen through a complex systems science lens, the problem of unfairness — in economic opportunity, in health care access, in susceptibility to a pandemic — stays wicked. But the insights therein could steer society toward a much better future, or at least help mitigate the worst of what we're left to deal with now. This is where the rubber meets the road — where quantitative models of the lung could inform economic policy, and research into how we make decisions influences who survives the complex crises of this decade.Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I'm your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we'll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.This week on Complexity, in a conversation recorded on December 9th 2021, we speak with SFI External Professors Kathy Powers, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico, and Melanie Moses, Director of the Moses Biological Computation Lab at the University of New Mexico. In the first part of a conversation that — like COVID itself — will not be contained, and spends much of its time visiting the poor and under-represented, we discuss everything from how the network topology of cities shapes the outcome of an outbreak to how vaccine hesitancy is a path-dependent trust fail anchored in the history of oppression. Melanie and Kathy offer insights into how to fix the vaccine rollout, how better scientific models can protect the vulnerable, and how — with the help of complex systems thinking — we may finally be able to repair the structural inequities that threaten all of us, one boat or many.  Subscribe for Part Two in two weeks!If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe to Complexity Podcast wherever you prefer to listen, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts, and/or consider making a donation at santafe.edu/give. Please also be aware of our new SFI Press book, The Complex Alternative, which gathers over 60 complex systems research points of view on COVID-19 (including those from this show) — and that PhD students are now welcome to apply for our tuitionless (!) Summer 2022 SFI GAINS residential program in Vienna. Learn more at SFIPress.org and SantaFe.edu/Gains, respectively. Thank you for listening!Join our Facebook discussion group to meet like minds and talk about each episode.Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano.Follow us on social media:Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedInRelated Reading & Listening:A Model For A Just COVID-19 Vaccination ProgramLegacies of Harm, Social Mistrust & Political Blame Impede A Robust Societal Response to The Evolving COVID-19 PandemicHow To Fix The Vaccine RolloutModels That Protect The VulnerableComplexities in Repair for Harm (Kathy's SFI Seminar)How a coastline 100 million years ago influences modern election results in Alabama @ Reddit

What makes a satisfying explanation? Understanding and prediction are two different goals at odds with one another — think fundamental physics versus artificial neural networks — and even what defines a “simple” explanation varies from one person to another. Held in a kind of ecosystemic balance, these diverse approaches to seeking knowledge keep each other honest…but the use of one kind of knowledge to the exclusion of all others leads to disastrous results. And in the 21st Century, the difference between good and bad explanations determines how society adapts as rapid change transforms the world most people took for granted — and sends humankind into the epistemic wilds  to find new stories that will help us navigate this brave new world.This week we dive deep with SFI External Professor Simon DeDeo at Carnegie Mellon University to explore his research into intelligence and the search for understanding, bringing computational techniques to bear on the history of science, information processing at the scale of society, and how digital technologies and the coronavirus pandemic challenge humankind to think more carefully about the meaning that we seek, here on the edge of chaos…If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe to Complexity Podcast wherever you  listen, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts, and/or consider making a donation at santafe.edu/engage. Thank you for listening!Join our Facebook discussion group to meet like minds and talk about each episode.Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano.Follow us on social media:Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedInWorks Discussed:“From Probability to Consilience: How Explanatory Values Implement Bayesian Reasoning”Zachary Wojtowicz & Simon DeDeo (+ SFI press release on this paper)“Supertheories and Consilience from Alchemy to Electromagnetism”Simon DeDeo (SFI lecture video)“From equality to hierarchy”Simon DeDeo & Elizabeth HobsonThe Complex Alternative: Complexity Scientists on the COVID-19 PandemicSFI Press (with “From Virus to Symptom” by Simon DeDeo)“Boredom and Flow: An Opportunity Cost Theory of Attention-Directing Motivational States”Zachary Wojtowicz, Nick Chater, & George Loewenstein“Scale and information-processing thresholds in Holocene social evolution”Jaeweon Shin, Michael Holton Price, David H. Wolpert, Hajime Shimao, Brendan Tracey, & Timothy A. Kohler “Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science”Johan Chu and James Evans“Will A Large Complex System Be Stable?”Robert MayRelated Podcast Episodes:• Andy Dobson on Disease Ecology & Conservation Strategy• Nicole Creanza on Cultural Evolution in Humans & Songbirds• On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity with David Krakauer• Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West on Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World• Vicky Yang & Henrik Olsson on Political Polling & Polarization: How We Make Decisions & Identities• David Wolpert on The No Free Lunch Theorems and Why They Undermine The Scientific Method• Science in The Time of COVID: Michael Lachmann & Sam Scarpino on Lessons from The Pandemic• Jonas Dalege on The Physics of Attitudes & Beliefs• Tyler Marghetis on Breakdowns & Breakthroughs: Critical Transitions in Jazz & MathematicsMentioned:David Spergel, Zachary Wojtowicz, Stuart Kauffman, Jessica Flack, Thomas Bayes, Claude Shannon, Sean M. Carroll, Dan Sperber, David Krakauer, Marten Scheffer, David Deutsch, Jaewon Shin, Stuart Firestein, Bob May, Peter Turchin, David Hume, Jimmy Wales, Tyler Marghetis

Listen to this interview of Joshua Schimel, Professor of soil ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded (Oxford UP, 2011). We talk about how writing is research, and about how the Vietnam War was really just one big fat rejected manuscript. Joshua Schimel : "One of the challenges, I think, we have in science is that all the way up through university, we're being taught scientific knowledge. But that isn't really science. That's the product of science. Science is the process of learning new things. And there's this wonderful book, Ignorance: How it drives science, by Stuart Firestein, and the book is elegant in that idea of reminding people that science is about ignorance. Science is about what we don't know and how to figure it out. And so, for example, in a good Introduction to an article, you're not just trying to tell people everything we know about a field, you're trying either to identify the gap in what we know or, as the most important papers do, to locate the error in what we do know: 'We've been thinking about things this one way, but we've been wrong in some part of that thinking.' That's going to really engage the experts." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/neuroscience

Listen to this interview of Joshua Schimel, Professor of soil ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded (Oxford UP, 2011). We talk about how writing is research, and about how the Vietnam War was really just one big fat rejected manuscript. Joshua Schimel : "One of the challenges, I think, we have in science is that all the way up through university, we're being taught scientific knowledge. But that isn't really science. That's the product of science. Science is the process of learning new things. And there's this wonderful book, Ignorance: How it drives science, by Stuart Firestein, and the book is elegant in that idea of reminding people that science is about ignorance. Science is about what we don't know and how to figure it out. And so, for example, in a good Introduction to an article, you're not just trying to tell people everything we know about a field, you're trying either to identify the gap in what we know or, as the most important papers do, to locate the error in what we do know: 'We've been thinking about things this one way, but we've been wrong in some part of that thinking.' That's going to really engage the experts." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen to this interview of Joshua Schimel, Professor of soil ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded (Oxford UP, 2011). We talk about how writing is research, and about how the Vietnam War was really just one big fat rejected manuscript. Joshua Schimel : "One of the challenges, I think, we have in science is that all the way up through university, we're being taught scientific knowledge. But that isn't really science. That's the product of science. Science is the process of learning new things. And there's this wonderful book, Ignorance: How it drives science, by Stuart Firestein, and the book is elegant in that idea of reminding people that science is about ignorance. Science is about what we don't know and how to figure it out. And so, for example, in a good Introduction to an article, you're not just trying to tell people everything we know about a field, you're trying either to identify the gap in what we know or, as the most important papers do, to locate the error in what we do know: 'We've been thinking about things this one way, but we've been wrong in some part of that thinking.' That's going to really engage the experts." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Listen to this interview of Joshua Schimel, Professor of soil ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded (Oxford UP, 2011). We talk about how writing is research, and about how the Vietnam War was really just one big fat rejected manuscript. Joshua Schimel : "One of the challenges, I think, we have in science is that all the way up through university, we're being taught scientific knowledge. But that isn't really science. That's the product of science. Science is the process of learning new things. And there's this wonderful book, Ignorance: How it drives science, by Stuart Firestein, and the book is elegant in that idea of reminding people that science is about ignorance. Science is about what we don't know and how to figure it out. And so, for example, in a good Introduction to an article, you're not just trying to tell people everything we know about a field, you're trying either to identify the gap in what we know or, as the most important papers do, to locate the error in what we do know: 'We've been thinking about things this one way, but we've been wrong in some part of that thinking.' That's going to really engage the experts."

Listen to this interview of Joshua Schimel, Professor of soil ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded (Oxford UP, 2011). We talk about how writing is research, and about how the Vietnam War was really just one big fat rejected manuscript. Joshua Schimel : "One of the challenges, I think, we have in science is that all the way up through university, we're being taught scientific knowledge. But that isn't really science. That's the product of science. Science is the process of learning new things. And there's this wonderful book, Ignorance: How it drives science, by Stuart Firestein, and the book is elegant in that idea of reminding people that science is about ignorance. Science is about what we don't know and how to figure it out. And so, for example, in a good Introduction to an article, you're not just trying to tell people everything we know about a field, you're trying either to identify the gap in what we know or, as the most important papers do, to locate the error in what we do know: 'We've been thinking about things this one way, but we've been wrong in some part of that thinking.' That's going to really engage the experts." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

Listen to this interview of Joshua Schimel, Professor of soil ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded (Oxford UP, 2011). We talk about how writing is research, and about how the Vietnam War was really just one big fat rejected manuscript. Joshua Schimel : "One of the challenges, I think, we have in science is that all the way up through university, we're being taught scientific knowledge. But that isn't really science. That's the product of science. Science is the process of learning new things. And there's this wonderful book, Ignorance: How it drives science, by Stuart Firestein, and the book is elegant in that idea of reminding people that science is about ignorance. Science is about what we don't know and how to figure it out. And so, for example, in a good Introduction to an article, you're not just trying to tell people everything we know about a field, you're trying either to identify the gap in what we know or, as the most important papers do, to locate the error in what we do know: 'We've been thinking about things this one way, but we've been wrong in some part of that thinking.' That's going to really engage the experts." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science

Both this and the next episode of the Evolving Leader podcast are going to be a little different to our usual format. Where time permits, after we've finished recording an episode with our fabulous guests we also record them answering a series of rapid fire questions. We refer to this as the Evolving Leader Vulnerability Interview. You'll hear that it's pretty lighthearted, but beyond that we also recognise the importance of normalising vulnerability in the leadership space because it contributes to environments of trust and psychological safety. We're so grateful that so many of our esteemed guests are willing to answer these questions. Thank you (again) to each and every one of you. In this first part, you'll hear insights from neuroscientist Stuart Firestein, Vollebak CEO and Co-founder Steve Tidball, author, artist and cultural geographer Holly Murchison, Pfizer UK MD Ben Osborn, photographer, entrepreneur and one time most influential person on the internet Jeremy Cowart, Olympian, author and consultant Cath Bishop, economist, author and former head of Said Business School (and so much more) John Kay, entrepreneur Ilham Said, Wimbledon CEO Sally Bolton, occupational and forensic psychiatrist Neil Greenberg and former NASA astronaut and co-founder of B612 (saving planet Earth from asteroid impacts) Ed Lu.01'07   Full vulnerability interview with Stuart Firestein What was the biggest lie you've ever told at work?05'24    Steve Tidball06'27    Holly Murchison06'43    Ben Osborn07'11    Jeremy Cowart Where do you feel most vulnerable at work?08'05    Cath Bishop08'54    John Kay What's the personal development topic you most avoid confronting?09'40    Ilham Said10'13    Ben Osborn Who would play you in the movie of your life?10'50    Sally Bolton11'43    Neil Greenberg12'06    Ed LuSocial:Instagram           @evolvingleaderLinkedIn             The Evolving Leader PodcastTwitter               @Evolving_Leader

Ignorance is usually viewed as a bad thing. However, Prof. Stuart Firestein, former chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University and author of "Ignorance: How It Drives Science" and "Failure: Why Science Is So Successful," views ignorance as a stepping stone to knowledge. Tune in to learn how tackling ignorance is the next frontier for you.Our Website: https://www.aimingforthemoon.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aiming4moon/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Aiming4MoonYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6-TwYdfPcWV-V1JvjBXk

Satyan Devadoss, Professor of Mathematics at the University of San Diego and Stuart Firestein, Professor of Neurobiology at Columbia University, discuss science, ignorance and the pursuit of meaning on the stage at Columbia. • Please like, share, subscribe to, and review this podcast.

The general public has a glorified view of the pursuit of scientific research. However, the idealized perception of science as a rule-based, methodical system for accumulating facts could not be further from the truth. Modern science involves the idiosyncratic, often bumbling search for understanding in uncharted territories, full of wrong turns, false findings, and the occasional remarkable success. In his sequel to Ignorance (Oxford University Press, 2012), Stuart Firestein shows us that the scientific enterprise is riddled with mistakes and errors - and that this is a good thing! Failure: Why Science Is So Successful delves into the origins of scientific research as a process that relies upon trial and error, one which inevitably results in a hefty dose of failure. In fact, scientists throughout history have relied on failure to guide their research, viewing mistakes as a necessary part of the process. Citing both historical and contemporary examples, Firestein strips away the distorted view of science as infallible to provide the public with a rare, inside glimpse of the messy realities of the scientific process. An insider's view of how science is actually carried out, this book will delight anyone with an interest in science, from aspiring scientists to curious general listeners. Accessible and entertaining, Failure illuminates the greatest and most productive adventure of human history, with all the missteps along the way.

In this first episode of season two, Scott and Jean talk to neuroscientist Stuart Firestein, about his counter-intuitive thinking on ignorance and failure as propelling forces in problem solving and innovation. Stuart is the Chair of Columbia University's Department of Biological Sciences, and is  dedicated to promoting the accessibility of science to a public audience. Author of ‘Ignorance: How it Drives Science', and ‘Failure: Why Science Is So Successful' (Oxford University Press), both written to present the workings of science to a general audience, Stuart's commitment to engaging the public in science can also be seen in his TED Talk entitled “The pursuit of ignorance”, which at the time of writing has garnered over 2.1 million views. Social:Instagram           @evolvingleaderLinkedIn             The Evolving Leader PodcastTwitter               @Evolving_Leader

In 2012, the Institute held a day long symposium, “Should you ever happen to find yourself in solitary: Wry Fancies and Stark Realities.” This episode features Joshua Foer, the 2006 USA Memory Champion, and Stuart Firestein, Columbia University chair of Biology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

'I hope it starts seeming odd pretty soon'Malcolm McLaren, TLC, Brian Eno, Strangeloves, Stuart Firestein, Eliza Floyd & Leo Boswell, The Monkees, Laura Dickinson, Jonathan Richman, Ron Moody, Kirk Franklin, Stephen Sondheim, Donald Hoffman, Flo Sandon, Greta Gerwig

'I hope it starts seeming odd pretty soon' Malcolm McLaren, TLC, Brian Eno, Strangeloves, Stuart Firestein, Eliza Floyd & Leo Boswell, The Monkees, Laura Dickinson, Jonathan Richman, Ron Moody, Kirk Franklin, Stephen Sondheim, Donald Hoffman, Flo Sandon, Greta Gerwig

At the International airport in Helsinki, Finland, researchers are using dogs to sniff the Covid-19 virus on arriving international passengers. In this archival interview, Dr. Stuart Firestein, a Neurobiologist and chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, explained smell to us.

'Tell a story of deficit' Kirby, Michael Redmond, Stuart Firestein, Roger Eno, Patience and Prudence, Dominic Fike, Kirk Franklin & The Family. Julia Jacklin, James Baldwin, SAULT, Duo Voces del Caney, Philippe Cohen Solal feat. Green Gartside, Dan Ariely, Tig Notaro, Nina Simone, The Carpenters

'Tell a story of deficit' Kirby, Michael Redmond, Stuart Firestein, Roger Eno, Patience and Prudence, Dominic Fike, Kirk Franklin & The Family. Julia Jacklin, James Baldwin, SAULT, Duo Voces del Caney, Philippe Cohen Solal feat. Green Gartside, Dan Ariely, Tig Notaro, Nina Simone, The Carpenters

00:00 - Introduction 05:31 - Free-for-All (Most feared or most likely dystopian reality we might experience) 33:22 - Main Topic (Does Ignorance = Science?) In episode ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-EIGHT Mike and Peter are joined by returning guest, and local physicist at Wisconsin Lutheran College, Dr. Kerry Kuehn. On this episode the three sit down to discuss Stuart Firestein's book Ignorance: How It Drives Science. At the end of the episode, Dr. Kuehn and Mike discuss the summer apologetics academy that they co-founded called Blackearth Apologetics. Although the events of 2020 caused them to cancel the 2020 courses, they intend to offer courses again in the summer of 2021. If you are interested, make sure to keep up with them at BlackearthApologetics.com. As always, a big thanks to Dr. Kuehn for joining us and for putting up with Mike! We are grateful to the 1517 podcasting network. If you haven't done so yet, make sure to go check out all of the great podcasts they have to offer, as well as the other wonderful content at 1517.org. If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe, rate, and review us on the following sites and apps: iTunes Stitcher Google Play TuneIn Radio iHeartRadio You can also like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. You can also follow our Telegram Channel, where we post our new episodes as well as other content that we think you might enjoy. And, of course, share us with a friend or two! If you’d like to contact us we can be reached at podcast@LetTheBirdFly.com, or visit our website at www.LetTheBirdFly.com. Thanks for listening! Attributions for Music used in this Episode: “The Last One” by Jahzzar is licensed under an Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. “Gib laut” by Dirk Becker is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. “Whistling Down the Road” by Silent Partner. “Not Drunk” by The Joy Drops is licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International License.

Steve and Corey speak with Stuart Firestein (Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University, specializing in the olfactory system) about his two books Ignorance: How It Drives Science and Failure: Why Science Is So Successful. Stuart explains why he thinks that it is a mistake to believe that scientists make discoveries by following the “scientific method” and what he sees as the real relationship between science and art. We discuss Stuart's recent research showing that current models of olfactory processing are wrong, while Steve delves into the puzzling infinities in calculations that led to the development of quantum electrodynamics. Stuart also makes the case that the theory of intelligent design is more intelligent than most scientists give it credit for and that it would be wise to teach it in science classes.Resources Stuart Firestein Failure: Why Science Is so Successful Ignorance: How it drives science Transcript

Steve and Corey speak with Stuart Firestein (Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University, specializing in the olfactory system) about his two books Ignorance: How It Drives Science and Failure: Why Science Is So Successful. Stuart explains why he thinks that it is a mistake to believe that scientists make discoveries by following the “scientific method” and what he sees as the real relationship between science and art. We discuss Stuart's recent research showing that current models of olfactory processing are wrong, while Steve delves into the puzzling infinities in calculations that led to the development of quantum electrodynamics. Stuart also makes the case that the theory of intelligent design is more intelligent than most scientists give it credit for and that it would be wise to teach it in science classes.Resources Stuart Firestein Failure: Why Science Is so Successful Ignorance: How it drives science Transcript

Steve and Corey speak with Stuart Firestein (Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University, specializing in the olfactory system) about his two books Ignorance: How It Drives Science and Failure: Why Science Is So Successful. Stuart explains why he thinks that it is a mistake to believe that scientists make discoveries by following the “scientific method” and what he sees as the real relationship between science and art. We discuss Stuart’s recent research showing that current models of olfactory processing are wrong, while Steve delves into the puzzling infinities in calculations that led to the development of quantum electrodynamics. Stuart also makes the case that the theory of intelligent design is more intelligent than most scientists give it credit for and that it would be wise to teach it in science classes.

LA IGNORANCIA NO TIENE POR QUÉ SER UN OBSTÁCULO PARA PROGRESAR, UN SIMPLE CAMBIO DE PERCEPCIÓN, PUEDE SER EL IMPULSO DETRÁS DE LOS CAMBIOS MÁS IMPORTANTES Esta idea sobre Innovación Instantánea fue extraída de “Ignorancia” (“Ignorance”) por Stuart Firestein. Este título ofrece una forma de reconciliarse con la ignorancia. El propósito de sus ideas es mostrarnos la importancia de cuestionar lo desconocido con conciencia. Recomendamos todas las ideas de este libro a cualquier persona interesada en conocer la rutina diaria de un laboratorio de investigación y a los líderes con la intención de crear una cultura de innovación. Algo útil para dialogar ¿Cuál sería el impacto más grande que tendría tu vida si buscaras la respuesta a todo lo que ignoras? ¿Te sirvió esta idea? Propágala para que más personas descubran de dónde vienen las buenas ideas. Suscríbete en ideasinfalibles.com o visita ideasinfalibles.com/premium para conseguir resúmenes completos.

Usually we think of ignorance as a bad thing--but what if appreciating and cultivating ignorance is the key to our success? Stefani chats with Columbia neurobiologist and best-selling author Stuart Firestein about our cultural obsession with facts and why that’s so limiting. Professor Firestein is a lively and entertaining guest who spills all about his journey as a scientist, the balance between the known and the unknown, and what we need in order to thrive. Enter the giveaway at http://stefaniruper.com/bookgiveaway!

 Annie Duke’s latest book, Thinking in Bets, Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts, is a masterful mash-up of her life as a researcher, poker player and charitable organization founder. In it, she explores new ideas on how to make better decisions.  Our interview with her expanded beyond the book and we talked extensively about probabilistic thinking and having people hold us accountable for our decision making. As expected, our interview covered an eclectic mix of behavioral biases, sociology, language development and, of without fail, music.   We noted some remarkable researchers including Anna Dreber, Phil Tetlock, Barb Miller, Stuart Firestein and Jonathan Haidt. We went deep into Annie’s personal history with her mentor Lila Gleitman and their work on Syntactic Bootstrapping, with the help of Donald Duck. Our music discussion included Jack White, Willie Nelson, Jonathan Richman, Prince, Alex Chilton and the Violent Femmes. If you find any of these names unfamiliar, we urge you to check them out.   We used the movie The Matrix and the blue pill/red pill metaphor for looking at the world as accurate vs. inaccurate, rather than right or wrong. We discussed how tribes can offer us distinctiveness and belongingness but also confine us with the tribe’s sometimes negative influences. We also examined learning pods and how they can be used to keep our decisions more in line with reality. ----more----Because this is a lengthy discussion we share the following to help you navigate if you’re interested in specific topics (Hour:Minute:Second). We sincerely hope you’ll take time to listen to the entire discussion – it’s both fun and insightful – but we also understand that life can get busy. - Red Pill / Blue Pill begins at 00:07:40 - Tribes begins at 00:11:36 - Learning groups begins at 00:31:08 - Discussion of Lila Gleitman begins at 1:00:55 - Syntactic Bootstrapping begins at 1:05:36 - Jack White begins at 1:17:30   If you like this episode, please forward it on to a friend or colleague and help Kurt win his bet with Tim for who pays the donation to How I Decide. You can find more information on or donate to this wonderful non-profit at www.howidecide.org.  Behavioral Grooves 

I denne episoden har Pål tatt ut pappaperm og Lars har tatt turen til filosofisk institutt på Blindern for å slå av en prat med en annen kognitiv bajas, Ole Martin Moen. Vi snakker om hans artikkel Fremtidsskolen (publisert i Dagbladet, 12.februar i år), og går derfra innom en rekke temaer, som livsmestring, nysgjerrighet og læring, om å endre mening og å faktisk ha lyst til å ta inn over seg gode argumenter, på tross av vår stae tilbøyelighet til det motsatte. Episoden er kanskje lang, men det er vel egentlig et eksperiment for å se hva som skjer når man forsøker å ha en noenlunde fokusert samtale over tid, som kan lede til noen gode og uforutsette tanker. Vi synes samtalen bla ganske så fin, og håper at noe av stemningen smitter over på dere som lytter. Om den gjør det eller ei, gi oss gjerne tilbakemeldinger, på facebooksiden vår, på larsogpaal@gmail.com, eller på Itunes! Samtalene våre blitt ikke bedre enn hva vi sammen gjør dem til, så ta dette som en oppfordring. I episoden nevnes en masse bøker, podkaster og annet. For å gjøre det litt enkelt for deg har vi laget en liste:   Podkaster: Dialogisk (podkasten til Gunnar Tjomlid og Dag Sørås, anbefales for flere trivelige samtaler, og særlig episoden hvor Ole Martin snakker om skole) Moralistene (Ole Martins podkast, som han lager sammen med Aksel Braanen Sterri) EconTalk (en av Ole Martins anbefalinger) Common sense (podkasten Dan Carlin lager i tillegg til Hardcore History) Bøker og artikler: Stuart Firestein, Ignorance. How it drives science, 2012 (Evt start med TED-talken hans om samme tema) Ole Martin Moen, «Fremtidsskolen», Dagbladet 12.februar, 2018 Nils Christie, Hvis skolen ikke fantes, 1968 Daniel Kahneman Thinking. Fast and slow, 2011 Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society, 1971 Alison Wolf, Does education matter?: Myths about education and economic growth, 2002 Joshua Rothman, “Daniel Dennett’s science of the soul. A philosopher’s lifelong quest to understand the making of the mind”, The New Yorker, March 27, 2017 George Leonard, Education and ecstacy, 1968 Sam Harris, Lying, 2011 Jonathan Haidt, The righteous mind. Why good people are divided by politics and religion, 2012 Alle Ole Martins artikler finner du på olemartinmoen.com   ------------------ Logoen vår er laget av Sveinung Sudbø, se hans arbeider på originalkopi.com Musikken er av Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen, se facebooksiden Nygrenda Vev og Dur for mer info. Forresten, det helt på slutten skal Arne slippe å få skylden for, det er fra et øvingslokale en gang for lenge, lenge siden. ---------------------------- Da var vi i mål! Takk for at du hører på, og takk takk om du deler og kanskje sies hva du synes om hele greia. Og takk til Ole Martin for en kjekk samtale! Alt godt!

How do breakthroughs happen? Not how we think. Movies, books, and articles, constrained by time and word limits, often leave out the realities --  the messy work, filled with dead ends, abandoned questions, and accidental discoveries. That is what Stuart Firestein, Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, wants to change. He believes that the roles ignorance and failure play in the discovery process are vastly underappreciated, so much so that he has written two books about them, Ignorance: How It Drives Science, and Failure: Why Science is So Successful. An advisor for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation program for The Public Understanding of Science, Stuart shares insights from his own work as a successful researcher and scientist and from those of his peers, as well as scientific philosophers and historians. Insights from our interview:   Knowledge and facts are important insofar as they help us ask better questions Conscious ignorance offers a useful playground for discovery The messy process of science and discovery is where the value lies The disconnect between scientific textbooks and courses and actual science The innovative course he teaches that helps students gain a scientific mindset What it is that makes a problem interesting How scientists, researchers, and creatives look for connections Why failure can be useful even if it never leads to an eventual success The fact that the more expert a person is the less certain they will be How systems limit innovation Why we need better tools for assessment and evaluation in schools Why we need feedback tools that are more diagnostic and less judgmental Why he worries most about people who dislike or are disinterested in science Why he sees his lab as a cauldron of curiosity How writing books requires a different way of looking at things How philosophy and history can impact science in an interactive way Selected Links to Topics Mentioned Stuart Firestein @FiresteinS Be Bad First by Erika Andersen Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud by Peter Medawar James Clerk Maxwell Principles of Neuroscience Eric Kandel Kenneth Rogoff D.H. Lawrence Do No Harm by Henry Marsh MCAT NIH NSF Sidney Brenner Michael Krasny Karl Popper Thomas Kuhn Isaiah Berlin If you enjoy the podcast, please rate and review it on iTunes. For automatic delivery of new episodes, be sure to subscribe. As always, thanks for listening! Thank you to Emmy-award-winning Creative Director Vanida Vae for designing the Curious Minds logo, and thank you to Rob Mancabelli for all of his production expertise! www.gayleallen.net LinkedIn @GAllenTC

We talk to Stuart Firestein, chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, about his latest book Failure: Why Science Is So Successful.

This week, Dave, Val and Tom have a freewheeling conversation on how any progress ever happens with Stuart Firestein, Columbia department chair in biological sciences, whose TED talk “The Pursuit of Ignorance” is pushing 2 million views.  

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Guest: Stuart Firestein Stuart joins Vincent and Dickson to talk about his sequel to Ignorance, a book called Failure, which seeks to make science more appealing by revealing its faults.   Links for this episode Stuart Firestein's site Ignorance with Stuart Firestein (TWiV Special) The pursuit of ignorance (TED) Ignorance by Stuart Firestein Failure by Stuart Firestein This episode is sponsored by ASM Agar Art Contest and ASV 2016 Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

THE IMPORTANCE OF FAILURE IN EDUCATION AND SCIENCE Dr Stuart Firestein, Neuroscience professor at Columbia, TedX speaker and author of the best selling book "Failure: Why Science is so successful". He will discuss this book and his previous one "Ignorance: What drives Science". 

Dr. Stuart Firestein is a Professor and Chair in the Department Biological Sciences at Columbia University. He received his B.S. Degree in Biology from San Francisco State University and his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of California, Berkeley. Afterward, Stuart completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University. He has received the Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award for scholarship and teaching as well as being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an Alfred Sloan Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. Stuart is also an advisor for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's program for the Public Understanding of Science and the author of the book Ignorance: How it Drives Science and the upcoming book Failure: Why Science is So Successful that will be released in October 2015. Stuart is here with us today to tell us all about his journey through life and science.

Moe and Stuart discuss the importance of ignorance and how it drives science. Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance--not knowledge--that is the true engine of science. 

Qu'est-ce que le vrai travail scientifique ? Le chercheur en neuroscience Stuart Firestein explique avec humour qu'il s'agit de "glander ... dans le noir" plutôt que de méthode scientifique. Dans cette conférence pleine d'esprit, Firestein nous emmène au cœur de la science et de sa pratique réelle, et propose d'accorder autant d'importance à ce que nous ignorons ("l'ignorance haut de gamme") qu'à ce que nous savons.

Wie sieht echtes wissenschaftliches Arbeiten aus? Der Neurowissenschaftler Stuart Firestein witzelt: Wesentlich weniger wie eine wissenschaftliche Methode und eher wie "Herumrülpsen ... im Dunkeln". In diesem klugen Vortrag dringt Firestein zum Herz der Wissenschaft, wie sie heutzutage praktiziert wird, vor, und unterbreitet den Vorschlag, das wertzuschätzen, was wir nicht wissen – die "hochqualitative Ignoranz" – genau so sehr wie das, was wir wissen.

Como é realmente um trabalho científico? O neurocientista Stuart Firestein brinca: é muito pouco parecido com o método científico e muito mais com "enrolar... no escuro". Nesta palestra espirituosa, Firestein chega ao âmago da ciência como é realmente praticada, e sugere que devemos valorizar o que não sabemos, ou a "ignorância de alta qualidade", tanto quanto o que sabemos.

¿Cómo es realmente el trabajo de un científico? Como neurocientífico Stuart Firestein bromea: se parece mucho menos al método científico y mucho más a "tirarse pedos por ahí... en la oscuridad". En esta charla ingeniosa, Firestein llega al corazón de la ciencia como realmente se practica y sugiere que debemos valorar lo que no sabemos —o "la ignorancia de alta calidad"— tanto como lo que sabemos.

진정한 과학적 작업은 어떤 모습일까요? 신경 과학자인 스튜어트 파이어슈타인은 이런 농담을 합니다: 그건 전혀 과학적인 방법처럼 보이지 않으며 마치 "어둠속에서... 어슬렁거리는 것"같다. 재치있는 이 강연에서 파이어슈타인은 실제 과학의 중심에 다가가 우리에게 제안합니다. 우리가 알고 있는 것에 가치를 두는 만큼 모르고 있는 것 - 또는 "고품질의 무지"-에도 가치를 두어야 한다고.

What does real scientific work look like? As neuroscientist Stuart Firestein jokes: It looks a lot less like the scientific method and a lot more like "farting around ... in the dark." In this witty talk, Firestein gets to the heart of science as it is really practiced and suggests that we should value what we don't know -- or "high-quality ignorance" -- just as much as what we know.

After a career as a theater manager, Stuart Firestein takes a biology class, which leads him to a completely new life, and a lot of salamander noses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Stuart Firestein Vincent and Stuart discuss why ignorance - all of what we don't know, and even what we don't know we don't know - is the driving force of science. Links for this episode: Ignorance: How it drives Science by Stuart Firestein Ignorance website Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twiv@twiv.tv

This excerpt from our Pride: Flying Cars and Other Broken Promises event features biologist and professor Stuart Firestein considering pride and scientific predictions. Professor Firestein discusses how scientific predictions, which can appear to the public as arrogant and unreliable, are ideally informed by humility and a sense of curiosity in the face of ignorance. The event was part of our Science and the Seven Deadly Sins series. The panel also featured professor of ethics Christiana Peppard, scientist and author Gregory Benford, and moderator and science journalist, George Musser. Biologist and professor Stuart Firestein discusses how scientific predictions, which can appear to the public as arrogant and unreliable, are ideally informed by humility and a sense of curiosity in the face of ignorance. The event was part of our Science and the Seven Deadly Sins series. The panel also featured professor of ethics Christiana Peppard, scientist and author Gregory Benford, and moderator and science journalist George Musser.

Dr Stuart Firestein, Columbia U Biology chair and best selling author of  IGNORANCE; HOW IT DRIVES SCIENCE' returns to talk about how teaching to search for the facts  is more important than teaching to the facts...It';s what we don't know that keeps us moving forward.

Host: Indre Viskontas The idea that science moves forward by carefully peeling back layers of the onion of truth, one by one, in a deliberate fashion, is so prevalent that it borders on cliche. But the truth is that running scientific experiments often feels more akin to dipping a cup into a bottomless well of information: each new study simply raises more questions than it answers. Although scientific knowledge is vast, ignorance, or what's left to learn, dwarfs what we think we know. Exploring this boundless frontier, neurobiologist Stuart Firestein explains how ignorance, rather than facts, drives science. Stuart Firestein is the Chair of Columbia University's Department of Biological Sciences where he studies the vertebrate olfactory system, possibly the best chemical detector on the face of the planet. Dedicated to promoting the accessibility of science to a public audience Firestein serves as an advisor for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's program for the Public Understanding of Science. His popular course at Columbia University served as the basis of his new book Ignorance: How it Drives Science published by Oxford University Press.

Photograph 51 is a new play about Rosalind Franklin, Watson and Crick, and the race to determine the structure of DNA, at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City, running through November 21st. A panel discussion about the play on November 2nd featured crystallography expert Helen Berman, biologist and Franklin scholar Lynne Osman Elkin, science journalist Nicholas Wade, playwright Anna Ziegler and moderator Stuart Firestein

Photograph 51 is a new play about Rosalind Franklin, Watson and Crick, and the race to determine the structure of DNA, at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City, running through November 21st. This November 2nd, a panel discussion about the play and the issues it raises featured crystallography expert Helen Berman; biologist and Franklin scholar Lynne Osman Elkin; science journalist Nicholas Wade; playwright Anna Ziegler; and moderator Stuart Firestein