You can gain a lot of insights about the operation of human psychology and human societies from biology.

The many positive benefits of the knowledge and creativity dispersed throughout the world.

Technological advancement and the ensuing social consequences and philosophical debate.

There is a drive to make incremental improvements.

In the potential of the individual and the value of learning.

A great idea, but more focused, interesting, and less mainstream panels are needed.

People assimilate seemingly radical changes into their normal world.

Today’s cultural cross-pollenization is making differences ever more subtle.

Why we haven’t all become secular yet.

What do you do about when you find the biological roots of behavior?

The drive to improve has shaped humanity.

Randomness is not free will.

Ideas germinate during the twilight zone.

Postrel realized the magnitude of the problem when she donated a kidney to a friend.

Nonfunctional designs are the most interesting ones, Postrel says.

The former Reason magazine editor at Atlantic writer discusses the Libertarian ethos.

After World War II, the U.S. South was basically a rich third world country.

How to build our common knowledge base.

We must think of new efficient regulations.

Inspiration is intuition, refined.

Postrel gives people a deeper sense of the strengths of individual freedom.

Postrel is a synthesizer and an intellectual arbitreasurer.

Dissident, different, and very mainstream.

Technology changes everything.

Caldwell, on the role of politics.

People are capable of both tremendous good and tremendous evil, says Caldwell.

Working against unbeatable odds.

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Caldwell would use the money to look for multi-faceted approaches to global problems.

Everyone should live a life of integrity and commitment.