Notes on Contributors
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gregory j. chaitin is an Argentine-American mathematician. He is a creator of algorithmic information theory, the discoverer of the Omega number, and the creator of the field of metabiology. Among his books are Algorithmic Information Theory; Conversations with a Mathematician; Meta Math!; and Proving Darwin.
zoë crossland, associate professor of anthropology at Columbia University, researches the historical archaeology of Madagascar and forensic archaeology and evidential practices around human remains. Her publications include Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar and, coedited with Joyce, Disturbing Bodies. Perspectives on Forensic Archaeology.
stuart firestein is a professor of neurobiology in Columbia University's department of biological sciences. His laboratory investigates the mammalian sense of smell. The author of two books, Ignorance: How it Drives Science and Failure: Why Science Is So Successful, Firestein teaches a popular course called "Ignorance," in which scientists engage with students about what they don't know.
alan fiske is a psychological anthropologist who studies human sociality. He has written on the basic structures of human coordination in Structures of Social Life, and on moral motives for intentional harm in Virtuous Violence. His newest book is Kama Muta: Discovering the Connecting Emotion.
rebecca newberger goldstein is the author of 10 books, including Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel; Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity; and Plato at the Goggleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away. She is currently a visiting professor of philosophy at the New College of the Humanities.
william hirst is the Malcolm B. Smith Professor at the New School for Social Research. He studies the social aspects of memory and, in particular, the formation of collective memories, in groups as small as dyads and as large as nations. He has over 150 publications, including four edited books.
nicholas humphrey is an emeritus professor at the London School of Economics. He studies the evolution of intelligence and consciousness. His honors include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, the Pufendorf medal, and the Mind and Brain Prize. His most recent books are Seeing Red and Soul Dust.
linsey mcgoey is an associate professor in social theory and economic sociology at the University of Essex. She is a pioneer in the field of ignorance studies, which explores how strategic ignorance has affected economics and politics throughout history. She is the author of No Such Thing as a Free Gift and The Unknowers, and a founding editor of the Routledge Research in Ignorance Studies series.
james e. miller is professor of politics and liberal studies at the New School for Social Research. He is the editor of an English edition of Diogenes Laertius's Lives of the Eminent Philosophers. Among his books are Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche and, most recently, Can Democracy Work? A Short History of a Radical Idea, From Ancient Athens to Our World.
gavin a. schmidt is the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and works on the simulation of climate in the past, present, and possible futures. He coauthored, with Joshua Wolfe, Climate Change: Picturing the Science, and was the inaugural recipient of the AGU Climate Communications Prize. His 2014 TED Talk has been viewed over a million times.
michael scott is a professor of classics and ancient history at University of Warwick. His research has focused on Greek religion, particularly the oracle and sanctuary of Delphi. The author of several books on the ancient Mediterranean world and ancient global history, he has written and presented a range of documentaries for National Geographic, History Channel, ITV, and BBC.
marina warner is president of the Royal Society of Literature and professor of English and creative writing at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her books include Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale; and a new essay collection, Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art and Artists. She is currently working on a memoir of her Cairo childhood, and a study of sanctuary and literature.
natalie wolchover writes about physics as a senior writer and editor for Quanta Magazine, with bylines also in Nature, The New Yorker online, Popular Science and other publications. Her writing will be featured in The Best American Science...
