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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.

using viruses as medicine
This Yale researcher is creating an experimental therapy for cystic fibrosis made from viruses – and it’s working.
A man in a suit rides a comet with a face through a star-filled night sky, reflecting on lessons learned from space travel; a top hat floats nearby as the moon smiles in the background.
Astronaut Chris Hadfield shares how living in space has bettered his life on Earth.
John Templeton Foundation
Sleeping beauty sleeps in an enchanted forest.
The road to happiness is indirect and full of frustration.
A person stands in front of a large face, peering into an oversized monocle held by a giant hand, as if searching for traces of free will within the magnified gaze.
6 min
Philosophers have been making the claim that free will is an illusion for hundreds of years. Dr. Uri Maoz shares what modern neuroscience has to say about it.
John Templeton Foundation
recreational drug use
5 min
This man did over 150 drugs to help teach others how to use them safely.
Illustration of a human brain, drawn with black ink lines on a solid orange background, symbolizing intellectual life.
5 min
According to Zena Hitz, the idea of the intellectual has become distorted. She believes “the real thing is something more extraordinary but also more available to us.”
John Templeton Foundation
Think like a Navy Seal
The “Limitless” pill exists, and you already have it in your brain.