Absolutely Mental (SEASON 3)

LIVE TOWN HALL

Livestream from Sam's Town Hall event on May 9th, 2019

Brian Greene is world-renowned for his groundbreaking discoveries in the field of superstring theory, including the co-discovery of mirror symmetry and the discovery of spatial topology change. He is the director of Columbia’s Center for Theoretical Physics. Professor Greene is known to the public through his New York Times bestselling books and numerous media appearances from The Late Show withStephen Colbert to Charlie Rose. The Washington Post called him “the single best explainer of abstruse concepts in the world today.” Professor Greene has hosted two NOVA mini-series based on his books, receiving the George Foster Peabody award for The Elegant Universe with Brian Greene. Greene has had cameo roles in a number of Hollywood films including Frequency, Maze and The Last Mimzy and in 2008, with producer Tracy Day, co-founded the <a href="http://www.briangreene.org/world-science-festival/">World Science Festival</a>. He is the director of Columbia’s Center for Theoretical Physics. Website: <a href="https://www.briangreene.org/">https://www.briangreene.org/</a> Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/bgreene">@bgreene</a>

LIVE IN TORONTO WITH BRIAN GREENE

Audio recording of the live event

Maria Popova is a reader, writer, interestingness hunter-gatherer, and curious mind at large. She’s previously written for Wired UK, The Atlantic, The New York Times,and Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab, among others, and is a MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow.Her blog is <a href="BrainPickings.org">BrainPickings.org</a> Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/brainpicker">@brainpicker</a>Janna Levin is the Tow Professor of physics and astronomy at BarnardCollege of Columbia University, and has contributed to an understanding of black holes, the cosmology of extra dimensions, and gravitational waves in the shape of spacetime. She is also director of sciences at <a href="https://pioneerworks.org/">Pioneer Works</a>. Her previous books include <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BTM81Q8/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwsamharris03-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00BTM81Q8&linkId=34202c4387b36a8a9599a46a0d1885bb">How the Universe Got Its Spots</a> and a novel, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400032407/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwsamharris03-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1400032407&linkId=23ada91abf87297f711b4787b70fa944">A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines</a>, which won the PEN/Bingham Prize. She was recently named a <a href="https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/janna-levin/">Guggenheim Fellow</a>. Her latest book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/030794848X/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwsamharris03-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=030794848X&linkId=ca20b00724b4ae78219778ba26bd4a29">Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space</a>, is the inside story on the discovery of the century: the sound of spacetime ringing from the collision of two black hole over a billion years ago. Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/JannaLevin">@JannaLevin</a>

LIVE IN PHILADELPHIA WITH JANNA LEVIN AND MARIA POPOVA

MEDITATION FOR FIDGETY SKEPTICS: A CONVERSATION WITH DAN HARRIS

WAKING UP VIDEO

WAKING UP BOOK CLUB 1

With Steven Pinker

In this second Waking Up Book Club event, we’re recording live from the Theatre at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles. Listen to Sam Harris interview Antonio Damasio about his new book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307908755/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307908755&linkCode=as2&tag=wwwsamharris03-20&linkId=436925fd2baa765e8ad6db9541f866e0"> The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures</a>.

WAKING UP BOOK CLUB 2

With Antonio Damasio