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This month we celebrate the 210th anniversary of Darwin's birth. Here's an essay I wrote for Orbiter on his views o… https://t.co/WgvYLQ3H5z
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Wonderful to see my essay revived! https://t.co/zdkoOApbZJ
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Portuguese-man-of-war in Key West https://t.co/p3VrXxmKOo
Recent Activities
On Immortality
Marcelo moderated an ICE Public Dialogue with Siddhartha Mukherjee and fellow Pulitzer winner Elizabeth Kolbert, discussing life and mortality, from the human to the planetary scale.
The Nature of Faith
An ICE Public Dialogue on science and religion with Rebecca Goldstein and Alan Lightman, moderated by Marcelo, at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.
The Nature of Reality
The recent ICE Public Dialogue in San Francisco attracted more than 1200 people to the Nourse Theater.
The Sciences, The Humanities, The Future
The Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement (ICE), directed by Marcelo, brought together leading scientists, humanists, and public intellectuals for its launching conference.
Question Reality! Science, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning
Marcelo's edX online course investigating the limits of knowledge and what we can and cannot know of the world and ourselves was a smashing success. Check out the archives.
How We Make Sense of the World: Information, Map-Making, and The Scientific Narrative
A new paper by Marcelo and Damian Sowinski on applying information theory to how we make sense of the world.
The Origins of Life
In this TEDxEast talk, Marcelo tells the 13.7-billion-year story of our universe in 18 minutes.
LATEST BOOK
Marcelo discusses science and religion with CERN's director general, the Vatican's head of science and faith, and a scholar of Jain philosophy on BBC World Service's The Forum.
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