Brandon Vaidyanathan

Spiritual Innovation

A conversation with Casper Ter Kuile and Angie Thurston

17 hrs ago • 

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Evolution, Beauty, and Innovation

A conversation with Matt Ridley

Nov 3 • 

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October 2025

Can Beauty Save the World?

A symposium at McGill University to launch our new study

Oct 29 • 

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The Laws of Life

S4E1: Dr. Michael Muthukrishna

Oct 20 • 

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September 2025

The Beauty and Burdens of Innovation

Announcing Season 4 of the Beauty at Work Podcast

Sep 30 • 

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How institutions flourish or fail

A provisional framework for institutional flourishing

Sep 5 • 

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August 2025

Is Science a Vocation?

Most scientists think so. But what do they mean by it?

Aug 3 • 

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July 2025

Beyond the DEF logic

What scientists can teach us about spiritual intelligence

Jul 8 • 

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June 2025

Why I'm (finally) starting a Substack

A quick welcome—and what you can expect here

Jun 28 • 

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March 2025

Yearning for Connection: Resisting Isolation in an Age of Artificial Intimacy

A Discussion with Sherry Turkle and Bob Putnam

Mar 21 • 

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A Feeling of Precariousness | Putnam, Turkle, Vaidyanathan | New York Encounter 2025 (Part 1 of 2)

A conversation at the New York Encounter 2025 on loneliness and malaise in today’s society with Robert Putnam, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard…

Mar 14 • 

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Yearning for Wonder: Science, Mystery, and the Limits of Knowledge

What happens when a mathematician, a biologist, and a physicist explore the deepest mysteries of nature, mathematics, and the human search for meaning?

Mar 1 • 

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