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Sara Walker
“The problem with attempts to define life is that life is not a natural kind.”
Sara Walker is one of the world's more pioneering astrobiologists, theoretical physicists and science communicators. She explores some of the most profound questions in science relating to topics none other than the origin of life and how to find life on other worlds.
Walker is currently Deputy Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University, Associate Director of the ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems and an associate professor at Arizona State University (ASU). She is a leading advocate for the communication of science to the public and has participated in many interviews, panels, and lectures to discuss her research and topics related to her fields of study.
“A fascinating thinker” – Santa Fe Institute
“The problem with attempts to define life is that life is not a natural kind.”
Sara Walker is one of the world's more pioneering astrobiologists, theoretical physicists and science communicators. She explores some of the most profound questions in science relating to topics none other than the origin of life and how to find life on other worlds.
Walker is currently Deputy Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University, Associate Director of the ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems and an associate professor at Arizona State University (ASU). She is a leading advocate for the communication of science to the public and has participated in many interviews, panels, and lectures to discuss her research and topics related to her fields of study.
“A fascinating thinker” – Santa Fe Institute
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Spacetime and the Structure of Reality
Is Time Travel Just a Fantasy?
Gravity minus dark matter
Missing Evidence
Is Nothing an Illusion?
Gravity
The End of the Theory of Everything
Time, Space and Being
Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
The Laws of the Universe
Back from the End of Time
Cosmic Dreams
The Strangeness of Things
Why The World Exists
Big Bang Creation Myths
The End of All Things
Is Reality an Illusion?
The Dark Universe
Why Does Time Fly?
Quantum Whispers
Decoding the Universe
The Poetry of the Universe
Playing Dice With The Universe
When Time Stands Still
How to Find a Multiverse
Time's Arrow
Bang Goes the Big Bang
The Next Universe
After the Higgs Boson
The Universe Code
Into the Unknown
The Stuff of the Universe
Bang Goes Another Theory of the Universe
The Theory of Everything
It's an Immaterial World
Pythagoras' Dream
Beyond the Standard Model
Something and Nothing
Life, the Universe and Everything
In a Parallel Universe
A Goldilocks World
The Mathematics of Thought
It's an Immaterial World
Wonders of the Big Bang
Uncovering Reality
Masters of the World
Stephen Hawking and the Progress of Physics
Conjuring the Universe
Quantum Effects in Gravity
Demons Among Us
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Suspended Ethics?
The Persecution of Heretics
A.I. and the Medicine of the Future
How Illness Transforms Philosophy
You are not an exception
An Enemy of The Open Society
How modern medicine became dangerous
A new paradigm to understand pain
We risk turning life into an illness
The post-antibiotic apocalypse is here
The mind-body problem is ruining our health
Breaking the silence on illness
The risks of erasing our desire with Ozempic
Medical trials are not the whole truth
New theory of placebos reframes mind-body problem
Pain destroys the mind-body problem
We are overcounting cancer cases by vast amounts
Cancer screening harms more people than it saves
False positives, real profits: the dark side of cancer screening
The Uniqueness of Humanity
DIY DNA
Entering the Soul Niche
A New Science of Life
The Emperor's New Genes
Rita Levi Montalcini: the Nobel Prize-winning scientist with a lab in her bedroom
Parenting myths and the DNA revolution
CRISPR's Brave New World
The ethical transhumanist
The rise of God-like beings
Science is based in metaphor